[KLUG Members] Greetings and Introduction

[Bob Kanaley]

Greetings list,

Although I have attended several KLUG meetings with Richard Zimmerman, and
have gotten some good information from following this list, I believe this
is my first post to the KLUG general list. So, for those who are interested,
I should probably introduce myself to the list.

I am a biochemist by training, but I have become the one-man IS department
for a small company (40 hosts on a TCP/IP LAN) in northern Indiana. I
inherited a hodge-podge system of Linux servers and Win clients. My first
official assignment as SysAdmin was to add an NT Member Server to run a
network version of the company accounting package.

Everything has been learn as you go, but I never seem to have the time to
stay on one thing long enough to retain what I learn about DNS, SMTP, POP3,
firewalls, SSL, SSH, Samba, Apache, NT, IIS, WinX, O2K, etc.

Fortunately the essential things are mostly working. My single biggest
annoyance is wading through lots of trivial messages in my log files. The
LAN is a lot more secure than when I started, and generally when I reach the
point that something is working, I have to move on to something else that
isn't working as well.

I like the Linux things, but it reminds me of the old days of DOS where
every program had it's own interface and quirks so every program had a steep
learning curve. You tended to stay with a program once you learned it
because you didn't want to have to take the time to learn another program
and unlearn what you already knew. But because every program was different,
any program you don't use for a while, you have to learn all over again when
you come back to it.

I will be posting some specific questions to see if there is anybody out
there who can spare my lovely wife another lonely evening waiting for me to
come home or log off the Internet and come to bed.

Bob Kanaley
IS Manager
Agdia, Inc.