USENIX Seventh System Administration Conference (LISA '93)
November 1-5, 1993
Monterey, California

Wednesday (8:30-10:00)
Chair: Bjorn Saideva

Opening Remarks and Announcements: Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, inc.
Keynote Address: A Management View of Systems Administration: John Black, Oracle

Wednesday (10:30-12:00)

Collaborative Networked Communication: MUDs as Systems Tools: Rémy Evard, Northeastern University
Horses and Barn Doors: Evolution of Corporate Guidelines for Internet Usage: Sally hambridge & Jeffrey C. Sedayao, Intel Corp.
Our Users have Root!: Laua de Leon, Mike Rodriquez, & Brent Thompson, Hewlett-Packard Company

Wednesday (1:30-3:00)

LUDE: A Distributed Software Library: Michel Dagenais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montéal; Stéphane Boucher, Bell-Northern Research; Robert Gérin-Lajole, Universite de Montréal; Pierre Laplante, Centre de recherche Informatique de Montréal; Pierre Maihot, Universite de Montréal
The Corporate Software Bank: Steven W. Lodin, Delco Electronics Corporation
Customization in a UNIX Computing Environment: Craig E. Wills, Kirstin Cadwell, & William Marrs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wednesday (3:30-5:00)

Local Disk Depot - Customizing the Software Environment: Walter C. Wong, Carnegie Mellon University
Methods for Maintaining One Source Tree in a Heterogeneous Environment: Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, inc.
Towards a POSIX Standard for Software Administration: Barrie Archer, ICL

Thursday (8:30-10:00)

Managing the Mission Critical Environment: E. Scott Menter, Enterprise Systems Management Corporation
Open Systems Formal Evaluation Process: Brian William Keves, Systems and Network Management
A Case Study on Moves and Mergers: John Schimmel, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Thursday (10:30-12:00)

Guerrilla System Administration: Scaling Small Group Systems Administration To a Larger Installed Base: Tim Hunter & Scott Watanabe, University of Colorado, Boulder
Role-based System Administration or Who, What, Where, and How: Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems
Delegation: Uniformity in Heterogeneous Distribued Administration: Jean-Charles Grégoire, INRS-Télécommunications

Thursday (1:30-3:00)

satool - A System Administrator's Cockpit, An Implementation: Todd Miller, Christopher Stirlen, and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sysctl: A Distributed System Control Package: Salvatore DeSimone & Christine Lombardi, Project Agora, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Automated System Monitoring and Notification with Swatch: Stephen E. Hansen & E. Todd Atkins, Stanford University

Thursday (3:30-5:00)

Where Did All The Bytes Go?: Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems; Michael Pearlman, Rice University
A Practical Approach to NFS Response Time Monitoring: Gary L. Schaps & Peter Bishop, Cirrus Logic, Inc.
The Amanda Network Backup Manager: James da Silva & Ólafur Guðmundsson, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Friday (8:30-10:00)

PLOD: Keep Track of What You're Doing: Hal Pomeranz, QMS, Inc.
How to Keep Track of Your Network Configuration: J. Schönwälder & H. Langendörfer, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Forecasting Disk Resource Requirements for a Usenet Server: Karl L. Swartz, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Friday (10:30-12:00)

Simplifying System Administration Tasks: The UAMS Approach: Roland J. Stolfa, Oklahoma State University
System Administrtion as a User Interface: An Extended Metaphor: Wilson H. Bent, Jr., University of Southern California
The System Administration Maturity Model - SAMM: Carol Kubicki, Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group

Friday (1:30-3:00)

Establishing and Administering a Public Access Internet facility: Sheri Byrne, Gemini Learning Center
Implementing Execution Controls in Unix: Todd Gamble, WilTel Network Services
HLFSD: Delivering Email to Your $HOME: Erez Zadok, Columbia University; Alexander Dupuy, System Management ARTS