From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Newsgroups: chi.mail
Subject: Clout System Administrators' September minutes
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:17:12 GMT
Distribution: chi
Organization: Vpnet Public Access



PREAMBLE

    The Clout Project of /usr/group/chicago provides email services to
    the Chicago computer community.  It is currently a two node system.
    One (nclout aka clout.chi.il.us) resides at the University of Chicago,
    Department of Computer Science.  The other (homebru) is in the home of
    Dave Ihnat.  Eventually we hope to have a clout node as a nearby phone
    call for everybody in the Chicago area.
    
    The Clout System Administrators' Committee is responsible for
    maintaining and upgrading the Clout distributed computer system.
    The Committee meets on the first Monday of every month, at a
    variety of locations.  Meetings are open to all interested parties,
    but we do request that you notify the host if you plan to attend.

    If you have any questions or problems related to the Clout Project,
    send email to postmaster@clout.chi.il.us.  If it is not possible
    to send email, or if there is a matter of urgency, you may contact
    the Sysadmin of the Month.
    
Minutes of the Clout Project System Administrators Committee September
meeting at the offices of Balr - Tuesday 1 September, 1992 - 1900
hours.

ATTENDANCE

La Monte Yarroll, chair
Greg Gulik
Russell Rezaian
Brian Vargyas
Shannon C. Noe
Gerry Swetsky
Chris Ray

Old Business
------------
*Progress on a formal smail bug list.
	This is no longer needed as smail 3.1.26 is now installed.

*Smail list connection
	The smail mailing lists are now available as reflectors on
	nclout.  Feel free to add yourself (SysAdmins).

*Clout's new disk drive
	"Il futu".  It's dead Jim!  There is a prospect of SCSI drives
	from some as yet unnamed benefactor...

*Postmaster of the month
	Russell Rezaian
	rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us
	(708)961-0926

*Error checker
	Greg Gulik
	greg@gagme.chi.il.us
	(312)725-8721
	(708)632-6817 work

*Next Meeting location
	Brian Vargyas's house in Lisle on *Tuesday* 6 October 1992.

*Does tellab5 talk directly to both clout nodes?
	Russell made sure that tellab5 stuff is NOT forwarded from
	either node.

*Request from the Internal Relations Committee.
	They have asked us for two items:
	A brief description of the Clout Project.
	Shannon Noe will get in contact with the IR Committee and
	provide them with a paragraph.
	
	An introductory document for getting set up with the Clout Project.
	Mike Beirne will do this second document.  Everybody, please
	send whatever you've been sending to new users to 
	<beirne@limerick.chi.il.us>.

*Universiry of Chicago Computer Science Department moving soon.
	The department will be moving both nclout and machine at the end
	of September.  They will get new phone numbers at that time. 
	The room they are in now is being taken over by the Instruction-
	al Labs.  Russell will call about a key.

*Reroute mcdchg via Internet.  
	Done.

*Can now register as a chi.il.us client by FAX.
	You can now send a 1 page FAX to this number: (708)575-8205.
	Make the fax "Attention Shannon Noe".  Include your name, 
	*voice* phone number, and the name of your machine.  A Clout 
	SysAdmin will call you back in a few days.

*Project:  pull all those double domained sites.
	This is an ongoing project.  Several have been removed already.

New Business
------------

*Add "news" alias.
	The alias "news" has been added on clout for the News Sig.
	The aliases "news" and "newssig" need to be propogated to homebru.

*Sun station now available.
	We now have a free 3/50 (it needs a disk drive).  We want to set
	it up as a development machine.  La Monte will get an IP address for
	vote2x.chi.il.us.

*New IP application.
	La Monte will apply for a B level IP space on behalf of 
	/usr/group/chicago.

*Clout map format.
	The format of the published clout map has changed.

*Possible bogus chi.il.us sites.
	Russell has a list of .chi.il.us sites whose contacts bounced.
	These sites will be contacted.  Russell will regnerate this 
	data.  Next month we should split up the bounces and contact 
	these people.
	
*Mail failing.
	postmaster@clout.chi.il.us is failing for some reason.

*Projects.
	Greg will compile gcc and install it on clout.
	Russell will then compile and install the mailserver.
	Shannon Noe will research a full name database system which can 
	be attached to the mailserver.

AFTERWORD

The Clout Project would like to thank the following organizations for their
help, loans and donations:
	The University of Chicago, Dept. of Computer Science
		(CPU system, machine room space, phone lines,
		 an Internet drop, and much general support)
	Tellabs (CPU, High speed modem)
	BALR Inc. (High speed modem, Meeting space, pizza and hospitality)
	Chinet (Replacement system for homebru and hardware donation for
		machine)