Western Mediterranean ® October 10–17, 2004 Perl WhirlTM • Linux Lunacy TM • MySQL Swell TM ITALY TURKEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Brian Aker Kaj Arnö David Axmark Piers Cawley Dave Cross Christopher R.Hertel Rasmus Lerdorf Marty Pauley Steven Pritchard Allison Randal GREECE GREECE Randal Schwartz Robert Spier Larry Stefonic Mauro Tortonesi Theodore Ts’o Larry Wall Michael “Monty”Widenius Casey West Escape to the good life. Allow yourself to be pampered. ITALY TURKEY Unwind.Have fun. Enrich your mind. And do it all aboard a luxurious cruise ship. Don’t miss this opportunity. Space is very limited. LINUX LUNACY Linux Lunacy IV,Perl Whirl ’04, and MySQL Swell will be running Managing Risks:How Paranoid Recovering From Hard Drive Disasters (half day) Do You Want to Be? (half day) Airfare,from the concurrently.The conference fee Speaker:Theodore Ts’o Speaker:Steven Pritchard United States is available is $995 and includes all courses, Ever had a hard drive fail? Ever kick yourself course materials,and the Securing systems can be a full-time job,but it because you didn’t keep backups of critical files,or through Geek Cruises for doesn’t have to be.Some of the most effective you discovered that your regular nightly backup Bon Voyage Cocktail Party. security techniques are also the simplest and didn’t? (Of course not,you keep regular backups $699 – $799 per person Conference attendees will pick easiest.This tutorial will cover many methods and verify them freuqently to make sure they are of securing your Linux systems,the risks they successful.) For those of you who don’t,this tuto- from most West Coast a “core conference” from one of eliminate,and the things you might still want rial will discuss ways of recovering from hard- cities,and $449 – $549 the three “conferences;” in to be paranoid about. ware or software disasters.Topics covered will include backup strategies as well as low-level Who should attend: from most cities East addition,attendees may take up techniques to recover data from a corrupted • Anyone who wants some direction in dealing ext2/ext3 filesystem when backups are not to five seminars from the other with potential security threats to their systems. of the Mississippi. available:recovering from a corrupted partition two conferences at no additional • Anyone who’s feeling paranoid about their table,using e2image to back up critical ext2/3 systems,but isn’t sure why. charge.Attendees may choose filesystem metadata,and using e2fsck and • Anyone who wants to feel paranoid about debugfs to sift through a corrupted filesystem. any combination of full-day, their systems. half-day,quarter-day,or 1-hour You will learn how to: Playing Together (half day) seminars for a total of • set up a (nearly) bullet-proof firewall on More Than You Ever Wanted to Know Speaker:Marty Pauley three (3) days worth of sessions. Linux with four commands. About Filesystems (half day) • identify unnecessary services and kill them. Speaker:Theodore Ts’o This tutorial will explain how you can use a GNU/ • cage what you can’t kill. Linux server to provide core network services • contain the disaster when the cage isn’t This will be an in-depth talk about filesystems. to a small network of Windows,MacOS,and enough. It will start with primitive filesystems,such as Unix(ish) systems.The main types of service MS-DOS “FAT”filesystems,and cover classical examined will be file sharing,printing,email, UNIX filesystems,and then move on to more and knowledge management. CERTIFICATION advanced,modern filesystems which are avilable today on Linux and other operating systems. Many small companies have heterogeneous LINUX CERTIFICATION EXAMS PROVIDED BY LPI Topics such as journaling,log-structured file- computer systems that they would like to work systems,robustness,and filesystem perform- together,but they are put off by perceived Linux Lunacy,Perl Whirl,and MySQL Swell attendees may,for a flat $250, ance issues will all be covered.Audience partic- complexity and cost,especially after talking to take any and all of the exams offered.At least four different exams will be ipation is welcome so bring your questions! some vendors.This tutorial will show that a Free Software system on a GNU/Linux server offered – others will be added to the list as well.Contact Kara Pritchard can do the work of at least four proprietary ([email protected]) to see if your exam(s) will be available in a language other than Samba 3 Configuration and Operation: servers for a fraction of the cost. English (if necessary). Charting the Course from What you will learn: Theory to Practice (half day) • Basic network config:DHCP and DNS Junior Level Administration (LPIC1) Speaker:Christopher R.Hertel • Apache web server,and knowledge 101 – Hardware & Architecture;Linux Installation & Package Management; management Get to know and love Samba 3 in a whole new • File and printer sharing GNU & Unix commands;Devices,Linux Filesystems,Filesystem way by taking this introductory tour of the • Email foundations of Samba and Windows filesharing Hierarchy Standard;The X Window System and interoperability. The tutorial is aimed at novice GNU/Linux sys- 102 – Kernel;Boot,Initialization,Shutdown and Runlevels;Printing;Documen- tem administrators.Anyone planning to add This session will guide you through the basics network services to a small network would tation;Shells,Scripting,Programming,and Compiling;Administrative of Samba 3 configuration with an emphasis on also benefit. Tasks;Networking Fundamentals;Networking Services;Security the many subsystems that make Samba work: • Filesharing Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC2) • Name services Designing Great Shared Libraries • Service Browsing (quarter day) 201 – Linux Kernel;System Startup;Filesystems;Hardware;System • Message Passing Speaker:Theodore Ts’o Maintenance;System Customization and Automation;Troubleshooting Meet the citizens of the Network Neighbor- 202 – Networking;Mail & News;DNS;Web Services;Network Client hood and discover how Samba can be used The magic of dynamic linking allows shared along side Active Directory,or as a replacement libraries to be replaced without requiring the Management;System Security;Network Troubleshooting for outdated Windows NT/4 systems. recompilation all the programs that use them. However,this is true only if proper care is taken Other Exams Planned To Be Offered Who should attend: when designing the data structures and inter- • IT Managers who make decisions about • the OSAC (Open Source Applications Certification) faces presented by these libraries.Many open network services source projects have unfortunately not taken • LPIC3 (Level 3 Security) • NAS vendors who build products for the this care,with the result that incompatible • Alternative Language Translated exams Unix and Windows markets changes are made to shared library interfaces • Open Source Developers who want their • Additional Exam Topics to be announced in Summer ‘04.Included will be two — as often as monthly.This talk will cover products to integrate with Microsoft networks design principles that allow for portable,stable, Q&A Sessions to answer final questions as well as to provide some final • Network Administrators who need to make it and yet extensible shared library interfaces.It all work together seamlessly advice to everyone taking the exams.Finally,those that sign up will be added will also cover some of the interesting tricks • the morbidly curious that can be done with shared libraries that make to the geekcruises-LPI mailing list.Our goal is for everyone to be as prepared, application programs more useful,and to enable ahead of time,as possible. greater code reuse in the Open Source world. PERL WHIRL PHP Building Web Applications with Perl (full day) Learning Perl Objects (half day) Part of Linux Lunacy IV and Perl Whirl ’04 conferences Speaker:Casey West Speaker:Randal Schwartz Building complex,interactive websites is a daunt- Randal Schwartz presents an introduction to Do you PHP? Speaker:Rasmus Lerdorf (full day) ing and difficult task.In this full-day course you Perl’s object system,including creating classes will learn how to develop web applications and instances,defining inheritance,overriding, PHP is many things to many people.Today,little is left of the first from the ground up,giving examples based on persistence,object destruction,and using version written more than 10 years ago,yet somehow the original some of the best open source software avail- AUTO-LOAD.Prior knowledge of other object able to do the job.At the end of this course you systems is helpful but not required.Prior ideas and concepts are very much alive and being used to drive will have a functional road map for further knowledge of Perl basics,including packages everything from the tiniest personal sites to the largest web com- exploration,or to get your job done faster and references,will be assumed. when you get off the boat. panies in the world.In these two indepth talks (half day each) I will discuss the various ways people use PHP to solve the web Topics include:the database,database interac- Idiomatic Perl (half day) tion and abstraction,application logic,testing, problem.I will go through a long list of technologies such as SQL, web interface development,session and user Speaker:Dave Cross XML,RSS/RDF,Flash,PDF,image generation,SOAP and many more management,and scalability. This tutorial teaches you the bits of Perl that and how to manage these using PHP.I will also present a system- The course is presented as a series of sections most beginners books miss out,enabling you that build on each other.By the end of the course to take your Perl expertise to the next level. atic approach to designing,securing,tuning,benchmarking,and we will have built a functional,database-driven profiling your PHP-based web applications.