kolstad@convex.UUCP (03/11/87)
Papers for the Large Installation Workshop (due last Monday) have not been
arriving in a torrent. We expect to have 60-100 administrators of
large UNIX systems come to the conference in Philadelphia on April
9-10, 1987. So far, we have not exceeded our registration quota.
Please do come. Things look great so far. Submit your one or two page
paper to me ASAP ({sun,ihnp4,allegra,uiucdcs}!kolstad). Call USENIX if
you haven't received your workshop information: 415-213-592-3243.
Here's a list of some of the papers we have so far:
* Software Distribution
Maintaining a consistent software environment
System Cloning
Automatic Software Distribution Revisited
Software Distribution in a network environment
* Networking
A Case Study for Network Management
Distributed Printing/Plotting
Managing an electronic mail system across Operating Environments
Administering clusters of UNIX systems
* Accounts
Creating an Environment for Novice Users
Sharing Accounts
An Automated Student Account System
Maintaining Systems in the Student Environment
A Charge Back System
* Backups
System Backup in a Distributed Responsibility Environment
Efficient use of Network dumping procedures
Low cost backups for large networks
Remote Backups
Restoring from multiple-tape dumps
* Miscellaneous
Using news multicasting with UUCP
The Strategic Planning Tool for Workstation Deployment