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From: John Bacall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NYLUG-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:50:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nylug-talk] TODAY! NYLUG 15 November General Meeting Presents: Dan Crosta on Trackle REMINDER: This meeting is TODAY, RSVP closes at 4:30pm TODAY Wednesday November 15th, 2006 6:30pm-8:00pm IBM Headquarters Building 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street 12th Floor ** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) *** You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting. Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. Dan Crosta (Trackle) -on- Trackle For part-time sysadmins a record of past actions is an invaluable tool that provides guidance in repairing or extending system services. However, requiring sysadmins to keep a detailed log of changes made to a live system can often seem like a low priority task when compared to addressing long and growing to-do lists. This problem is worse if the system administrator is a part-time volunteer, an overworked student or a harried administrator. On this meeting Dan Crosta speaks on Trackle, an integrated trouble ticket and solution tracking system which takes the legwork out of creating and maintaining a sort of institutional memory. Trackle is designed to allow untrained student sysadmins to bootstrap their knowledge by peeking over the shoulders of their more experienced colleagues -- even if those colleagues graduated years earlier. This is accomplished by tracking the exact actions taken by sysadmins, showing what lines were changed and in which configuration files. This allows experienced and inexperienced sysadmins to freely annotate and cross-reference shell session logs through an integrated Wiki web interface. As the Trackle team writes, here is a web- and console-based integrated issue-and-solution tracking system. Where open issues may be viewed through a web browser, freely annotated, edited and cross-referenced with the built-in Wiki. Alternatively they may be seen through a console interface, from which a tracked shell session can be started. All actions taken in the shell session, and all files changed, are recorded in the Trackle database. Dan will present Wednesday 15 November from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Happy Thanksgiving! For More Information Visit: * There are a sadly few good resources on the internet about library interposition, which is the _good juicy core of Trackle_. For applicable overviews visit here. http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/lib_interposers.html * And here. http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/curry.a * As well as here. http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/curry.ps * The Trackle homepage hints at some of the creators' goals in designing Trackle. http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/trackle/ * Trackle is based on Trac, a bugtracker. Find what sets it apart here. http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide About Dan Crosta: Dan is a Swarthmore alum. Swag (Give Away) During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given away. Stammtisch After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org/ for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org The nylug-talk mailing list is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list archive is at http://nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk To subscribe or unsubscribe: http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-talk </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
