Before anyone points it out to me: Yes, I am aware the font size is a little small in the forums. I’ll fix it up sometime on Saturday when I feel up with wrestling with CSS and fixing the lines where the designer decided that 85% of any font size is appropriate. I ran across this before, but I have to go searching several sets of CSS files before I find the right one.

This was the first evening where we started the virtual server configuration for our mythical SMB type environment. We went over the text based install of CentOS 5.4 and initial package selection, as well as running services on the box.

After a few technical difficulties while looking up some packages (trousers and fipscheck) that were installed that had not been selected, the rest of the install was reviewed. During the ‘firstboot’ process, we went through the list of services, which was rather enlightening for all involved. It appears that a number of things that you do not normally think about are enabled by default, even when unnecessary.

We had an average turnout at the OCUUG meeting on Wednesday night. It was a good time and for those who do not know, it’s more of a social group than a technology group. Having said that, tech topics do come up. For those who were, Dru just launched her latest book: The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. This one is published under the Apress banner.

There were copies for all at the meeting and DVDs to go with it.Of course, it’s not completely free, We are supposed to blog about it (notice I’m doing so now) and write a book review. I’m considering writing my BSDA at BSDCan 2010, so hopefully this will fill n the blanks for me. Either way, it’s an excuse to read a book, work through a new flavor of OS and take a certification exam.

Very slowly.

I finally got around to importing the userids from the old system tonight (last night?), but the old passwords will not work, as the storage methods are different. It would be interesting if I had spent time trying to crack them and then install them, but it’s not worth the effort.

You can get a password if you had a prior ID by clicking on the forgot password link. The system will send you an email with a link and you have to click the link, at which time it will send you a password.

Title: ovSAGE Meeting
Location: The Pythian Group, St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa
Link out: Click here
Description: This is the March meeting for Ottawa Valley SAGE.

This month we will be continuing the setup and install of a virtualized system to act as a mail, web, pop, imap, webmail server.
We will also be looking at kickstart, PXE boot for installation and once we have finished all of this, puppet and nagios for configuration management and monitoring
There will be some time at the beginning for any new items and we will be showing another ignite video at the end.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-18
End Time: 21:30