Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2022-09-07

Invited

• Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, O

Attendees

• Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Fraser, Nathan, Todd, O, Devon

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• CsLWGMeeting20220907

Review last meeting's Action Items

• Lori - will book a meeting re: suexec-flex https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=950947
  • Need info from Lori on this
  • This is an Apache package that is maintained in-house. It needs patching and re-building. Patched and built by Issac.
  • Nathan to discuss with Lori and Issac to determine who should be rebuilding the package and redistributing the deb patch
  • O: I recall that this is an odyssey framework tool.
• OpenVPN upgrade: containers and 2FA: https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=1231092
  • Work is ongoing
• Mike Patterson [UW-RT #1231841] wants us to patch/upgrade cups1.cs.uwaterloo.ca.
  • Fraser will take point on this work moving forward. Anthony offered assistance.
  • It would be handy to have some on campus testers while Fraser works on this. O assigns Costin and Ed for this help.
  • Anthony is communicating with Mike as well.
  • Test server has been setup with latest INF-Ubuntu stable and is being worked on.
  • Work is ongoing
  • cups server is still in use
• Dave needs to reach out to IST to discuss DNS issues
  • The contact in IST is away until October
  • Is IST querying all our DNS servers or just a single one? Could this be a limitation of infoblox

Proposed Agenda Items

• www.cs.uwaterloo.ca outage postmortem [ Anthony, 20min ]
  • Next step: IST's networking group ought to be contacted to determine whether they made any changes on the day of the incident.

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