kolstad@convex.UUCP (01/27/87)
USENIX director Rob Kolstad is chairman for the Large Installation System Administrator's Workshop to be held in Philadelphia, Pa. on Thursday and Friday, April 9th and 10th, 1987. The workshop will bring together system administrators trying to conquer UNIX's historical bias towards smaller systems. It is believed these administrators conquer many of the same problems repeatedly and can share their unique solutions to some problems in order to avoid duplication of effort as UNIX grows to run in ever larger installations. System managers of shops with over 100 users (on one or several processors) will find this workshop particularly valuable. It is intended that each administrator will briefly present unique attributes of his/her environment and contribute a short (five minute) discussion (and paper) detailing some solution from their shop. Some topics to be considered include: large file systems (dumps, networked file systems), password file administration (including YP), large mail system administration, USENET/News/Notes administration, mixed vendor (and version) environments, load control and batch systems, handy new utilities, and large LANs. For participation information, please contact Rob Kolstad, CONVEX Computers, 701 Plano Road, Richardson, TX 75081; 214-952-0351; {sun,allegra,ihnp4}!convex!kolstad. Call Rob ASAP if you are interested in co-chairing this workshop.