LCFG Users Day 2010

The annual LCFG users day for 2010 took place on Friday 10th December. It was held in the Informatics Forum, room G.07.

The day was split into two halves: in the morning, there was a tutorial on "Advanced Component Writing"; the afternoon consisted of talks, reports and discussions covering various achievements in the LCFG world from the previous year.

The tutorial covered a mixture of more advanced LCFG component techniques and tips on current recommended "best practice". Topics (in no particular order) included:

• Using the Perl Template Toolkit
• Resource validation
• Using SysInfo
• Component method access delegation
• Adding new component methods
• Accessing old values for resources
• Sub-classing the file component
• CMake tips

The slides are available from the LCFG website.

Morning Timetable

Afternoon Timetable

Time	Title	Speaker	Abstract
2:00-2:10	Welcome
	"lcfg-postfix"	Tim Colles	Lightning
2:10-2:40	"State of Union"	Kenny MacDonald	Review of the last year: New Ports, New Users, Documenting Headers, Dependency Browsing
2:50-3:20	"Advanced CPP Macros"	Shane Voss	CPP macros are used to simplify extensive repetitive LCFG syntax, for example creating Xen VMs.
3:20-3:45	Break
3:45-4:15	"MacOS X"	Kenneth MacDonald	The IS MacOS X Supported Desktop is built on a combination of LCFG and Apple tools.
4:15-4:30	"Planning SL6"	Alastair Scobie	Scientific Linux 6 is due out at the end of this year.

There were also several lightning talks scattered throughout the afternoon highlighting individual components, including:

fail2ban

Configures the fail2ban log file scanner which blocks IP addresses that are associated with multiple login failures

hwmon

Looks for failed hardware (e.g. disks and PSUs) and notifies nagios

inifile

Generates INI style files

macapps

Maintains MacOS X application assignments and launchers

postfix

Configures the postfix mail server

procmailrc

Configures your procmailrc

sophos

Configures Sophos antivirus on OS X

zope

Manages the zope web application server