[TriLUG] exclusive access to TriLUG-owned hardware?

[Magnus]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:31 PM, John F Davis wrote:

> Maybe I
> need to nominate myself to the sc so I can get exclusive use of our hw 
> as
> well.

First, I need to point out that you *were* nominated, at least twice, 
but never elected.  But that is not why I felt moved to respond to this.

But I really take exception to the statement about the TriLUG hardware 
being used exclusively by the SC.  This was the case for awhile (under 
different leadership), but for the last year or so it simply hasn't 
been true.

Have you actually read the TriLUG FAQ?  The member services FAQ?

Here is a little something you might find interesting:
[chrish at moya chrish]$ hostname
moya.trilug.org
[chrish at moya chrish]$ who
chrish   pts/0    Jun 26 16:03 (vpn.ccgroupnet.com)
jim      pts/9    Jun 26 12:40
willg    pts/10   Jun 26 15:25 (rdu26-245-048.nc.rr.com)
trifith  pts/11   Jun 24 17:50
errol    pts/12   Jun 20 23:51 (rdu57-218-017.nc.rr.com)
trifith  pts/13   Jun 26 15:38 (cpe-68-119-188-017.buies.nc.charter.com)
trifith  pts/14   Jun 24 17:50 (cpe-68-119-188-017.buies.nc.charter.com)
willg    pts/15   Jun 26 15:25
willg    pts/18   Jun 26 15:25
lovelace pts/20   Jun 26 09:12
sws      pts/25   Jun 25 19:43
jbroome  pts/27   Jun 25 23:22 (user-0c8h3c2.cable.mindspring.com)
sws      pts/30   Jun 26 12:08
jim      pts/31   Jun 26 12:40 (gnat-bocks.aoc.state.nc.us)
elfick   pts/16   Jun 26 12:33
elfick   pts/34   Jun 26 08:48 (216-166-211-50.clec.madisonriver.net)
lovelace pts/35   Jun 23 09:33 (opennms.dyndns.org)
willg    pts/26   Jun 26 15:25
sws      pts/28   Jun 25 19:43 (rdu168-185-023.nc.rr.com)
elfick   pts/19   Jun 26 12:33
lovelace pts/36   Jun 26 09:12
lovelace pts/22   Jun 25 21:08 (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-56-11.biz.rr.com)
[chrish at moya chrish]$

Those are a lot of logins.  And those are just interactive shell 
sessions opened on one of our several hots.

Then there is the ftp mirror.  Among others, I'm very glad to have that 
resource available when the better known public mirrors get slammed.

Then there is email.  You did know that as a member you're entitled to 
an email box, right?  The TriLUG email service are worth the trouble of 
filling out a membership form all by itself.  Just a casual look at 
moya shows me that we have quite a number of people using the email 
service.  This is a list of the IMAP spools on moya.  People who use 
POP3 or .forward won't have this, so the real number of trilug.org 
mailboxes is higher:

[chrish at moya imap]$ pwd
/var/spool/imap
[chrish at moya imap]$ ls
alchemist/  chrisk/     elliot/     jeremy/    leathersr/   minter/    
scott/
badger/     clotman/    errol/      jfloberg/  lisa/        msrobi/    
shaneo/
balld/      conrad/     geoff/      jhicks/    lisab/       mtodd/     
sinner/
bgood/      cornwell/   glcox/      jim/       lovelace/    nguyen/    
slp/
bill/       crimsun/    Greg/       jjohnson/  lsc21/       prhodes/   
sreher/
billm/      cws/        gregbrown/  jkrippy/   malaclypse/  ranger/    
sstancil/
bitmage/    dac/        hunter/     jmm/       markt/       redwolfe/  
sws/
bpevans/    davis/      isengard/   johnt/     mbroome/     reginald/  
tarus/
brettb/     default/    jaimie/     jonc/      mickey/      rh/        
trifith/
ccw/        dmcdowell/  jason/      jtate/     mike/        robbyd/    
uncleben/
chilcote/   doug/       jbeimler/   katzj/     mikem/       rock/      
willg/
chrish/     elfick/     jbroome/    kjotte/    miket/       rvestal/   
woengler/
[chrish at moya imap]$

That's a heck of a lot more people than the SC (five people).


Then there are the personal web pages.  Yeah, you are entitled to that, 
too, as part of your shell account.

Ever since the LDAP/Kerberos facilities were put in place, a wealth of 
*free* services have been available to TriLUG members just for the 
asking.  It all runs on the donated hardware and donated bandwidth that 
you seem to think five people are hoarding.

On behalf of all of the people who pulled together to make these 
services available, without any sort of compensation other than the 
warm fuzzy feeling of a job well done for the public good, "you're 
welcome".  (I'm but one of many who set aside a lot of personal time, 
and money, and hardware to make this happen.)

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
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