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Newsletter Volume 15, Number December 1994 Print Post Approved by Australia Post, PP2391500002 The AUUG Incorporated Newsletter Volume 15 Number 6 December 1994 CONTENTS AUUG General Information 3 Editorial 5 AUUG Corporate Sponsors . 6 AUUG President’s Page ....... 7 AUUG Institutional Members ...... 9 A Summary of Linus Torvalds’ Presentation at WAUG Patrick D ’ Cruze . 13 Linus Does Perth Mitcttell Brandsma 14 Announcements Call for Articles for the Australian . 16 AUUG’95 Call for Papers . 17 USENIX Association 1995 Technical Conference . 20 LISA IX Conference ..... 21 5th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium 25 UniForum Z 95 28 Open System Publications . 28 UNIX Societies in the Pacific Region . 29 AUUG Local Chapters AUUG Regional Contacts . 31 6th Annual Canberra Conference and Workshops 32 NSW AUUG Summer Conference . 33 AUUG Inc. - Victorian Chapter . 35 AUUGWet 95 - Northern Territory Chapter . 36 Perth Summer Technical Conference . ¯ ¯ 37 From the Western Front Janet Jackson . 38 WAUG Meeting Review Don Griffiths 39 AARNet Mail Affiliation . 4O Book Reviews . ¯ 44 Prentice Hall Book Order Form . 49 WoodsLane Information . 50 Addison-Wesley Information 51 AUUGN 1 Vol 15 No 6 !AUUGN - from AUUGN Volume 2, Number 6 52 Comment from Dave Horsfall 55 Technical Reports The Intemet - How to Connect in Australia Frank Crawford 56 Securing an Internet Connection Adrian Booth 71 From login: - Volume 19 Number 5 On Professionalism 74 Surviving Solaris 75 Your Voice . 76 System Administration Models ................ 77 Understanding UNIX Workstation Performance ............ 80 An Update on Standards Relevant to USENIX Members . 83 From login: - Volume 19 Number 6 Perl Practicum: A Plea for Clarity . - . 87 Point!Counterpoint .......... 88 Wherever You Go, There You Are ................ 90 System Administration Tools Your Vendor Never Told You About . 91 An Update on Standards Relevant to USENIX Members ..... 92 Unix Tricks & Traps Carl Brewer . 97 Summary of Management Committee Minutes - 21 October 1994 . 98 AUUG Membership Categories . 102 AUUG Forms 103 ADVERTISEMENTS ZIRCON Systems . 8 Workstations Plus .... ¯ - . 12 Softway . " - 15 UniForum NZ’95 . 32 Copyright © 1994 AUUG Incorporated. All rights reserved. AUUGN is the journal of AUUG Incorporated, an organisation with the aim of promoting knowledge and understanding of Open Systems including but not restricted to the UNIX* system, networking, graphics, user interfaces and programming and development environments, and related standards. Copying without fee is permitted provided that copies are made without modification, and are not made or distributed for commercial advantage. Credit to AUUGN and the author must be given. Abstracting with credit is permitted. No other reproduction is permitted without prior permission of AUUG Incorporated. * UNIX is a registered trademark of X/Open in file United States and ofl~er countries. Vol 15 No 6 2 AUUGN AUUG General Information Memberships and Subscriptions Membership, Change of Address, and Subscription forms can be found at the end of this issue. Membership and General Correspondence All correspondence for the AUUG should be addressed to:- The AUUG Secretary, Phone: (02) 361 5994 P.O. Box 366, Fax: (02) 332 4066 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Freephone: 1-800 625 655 AUSTRALIA Email: [email protected] AUUG Business Manager Catrina Dwyer, Phone: (02) 959 3656 P.O. Box 366, Fax: (02) 957 6706 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Email: [email protected] AUSTRALIA AUUG Executive President Phil McCrea Vice-President Glenn Huxtable p mc @ syd.dit, csiro.au [email protected] Division of Information Technology Functional Software CSIRO PO BOX 192 Building E6B LeeAerville WA 6903 Macquarie University NSW 2113 Secretary Peter Wishart Treasurer Frank Crawford pjw @ canb.auu g. o r g.au frank @ atonE ansto, g o v.a u EASAMS/GEC Marconi Systems ANSTO PO Box 4806 Private Mail Bag 1 Unit 7, 10 Kennedy St Menai NSW 2234 Kingston ACT 2604 Committee Stephen Boucher Lucy Chubb Members stephen @ mtiame, mtia. oz~ au lucyc@ softway.sw.ozau MTIA Softway Pty. Ltd. 509 St. Kilda Rd. P.O. Box 305 Melbourne VIC 3004 Strawberry Hills NSW 2021 Chris Maltby Michael Paddon chris@ sofavay.sw.oz.au mwp @ munnari, oz. au Softway Pry. Ltd. Kodak P.O. Box 305 173 Elizabeth St Strawberry Hills NSW 2021 Coburg, Vic 3058 Rick Stevenson rick@ stallion.oz au Stallion Technologies Pry. Ltd. 56 Sylvan Rd. Toowong, QLD 4066 AUUGN 3 Vol 15 No 6 AUUG General Information Next AUUG Meeting The AUUG’95 Conference and Exhibition (The Internet Means Business) will be held from the 19th to 21st September, 1995, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Advertising Advertisements to be included in AUUGN are welcome. They should conform to the standards of other contributions (see page 5). Advertising rates are $120 for a quarter page, $180 for half a page, $300 for the first A4 page, $250 for a second page, $500 for the inside cover and $750 for the back cover. There is a 20% discount for bulk ordering (ie, when you pay for three issues or more in advance). Contact the business manager for details. Mailing Lists For the purchase of the AUUGN mailing list, please contact the AUUG secretariat, phone (02) 361 5994, fax (02) 332 4066. Back Issues Various back issues of the AUUGN are available. For availability and prices please contact the AUUG secretariat or write to: AUUG Inc. Back Issues Department PO Box 366 Kensington, NSW, 2033 AUSTRALIA Conference Proceedings A limited number of the Conference Proce~ngs from previous AUUG Conferences are still available, at $50 for members and $60 for non-members. Contact the AUUG secretariat~ Acknowledgement This newsletter was produced with the kind assistance of and on equipment provided by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. A copy of FrameMaker for use in the production of the newsletter has been provided by Platform Technologies*. Disclaimer Opinions expressed by authors and reviewers are not necessarily those of AUUG Incorporated, its Newsletter or its editorial committee. * Platform Technologies are no longer distributors of FrameMaker, Information Technology Consultants, in Paddington NSW are now dislributing FrameMaker. Vol 15 No 6 4- AUUGN AUUG Newsletter Editorial Welcome to AUUGN Volume 15 Number 6, the last one for 1994 and the last that I will be editing. This issue should be received by members early in the new year. I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and wish you all a prosperous New Year. At the time of writing this, the new editor had not been formally notified, and as such I will not mention the name here. I will be forwarding any correspondence, and e_mail to [email protected] should be delivered correctly. Also note that I have published deadlines for submission of articles for issues of AUUGN in 1995. These deadlines may change slightly in the future to better reflect the new editors schedule. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people that have been contribution to AUUGN, since I took over as an editor. In particular, I would like to thank Janet Jackson and Frank Crawford, who have always had something for AUUGN, be it regular features, or an article or paper when things were a bit quiet. I’d also like to thank the members of the Management Committee, the Business Managers (past and presen0, local chapter representatives and the membership who have always been willing to contribute towards your newsletter (and remember it always is your newsletter and needs your regular contributions). Unfortunately, the pressures of my full-time job have been increasing over the years, and have now reached the stage where I can’t devote sufficient time to do AUUGN properly. I’ll certainly be lending a hand during the change over, and still be involved with AUUG in some way. Finally, in this edition, we have a lot of information about upcoming events, with CFP’s for AUUCO5, many of the Summer Conferences, for Uniforum NZ and for a number of USENIX functions, articles by Adrian Booth and Frank Crawford, some reprints from USENIX’s login and the regular features. Jagoda Crawford AUUGN Correspondence All correspondence regarding the AUUGN should be addressed to:- AUUGN Editor, Phone: TBA P.O. Box 366, Fax: TBA Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Email: [email protected] AUSTRALIA AUUGN Book Reviews The AUUGN book review editor is Frank Crawford. Anyone interested in reviewing books or with book reviews to submit for publishing in AUUGN please contact Frank. His address can be found on page two of this issue. Remember, that any books you review, you keep. Contributions The Newsletter is published approximately every two months. The deadlines for contributions for the next issues of AUUGN are: Volume 16 No 1 Friday 27th January Volume 16 No 2 Friday 24th March Volume 16 No 3 Friday 26th May Volume 16 No 4 Friday 28th July Volume 16 No 5 Friday 29th September Volume 16 No 6 Friday 24th November Contributions should be sent to fl~e Editor at lheabove address. Electronic submissions are preferred, and details can be obtained from the Editor. AUUGN 5 Vol 15 No 6 AUUG Inc, Corporate Sponsors AUUG Inc. is pleased to acknowledge the generous support given by the following corporate sponsors: Vol 15 No 6 6 AUUGN AUUG President’s Page What does "Information Technology" really mean these days? Recently I attended a National Scholarly Communications Forum in Canberra, the topic of which was Public Access to Networked Infonnation. It was an interesting event, held over two days in the "Martian Embassy" (to quote the taxi driver), more officially known as the Academy of Science Building. The event was a real eye opener to me, as I thought I was fairly well up on Internet type happenings.