18. LISA 2004: Atlanta, USA
Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2004), Atlanta, USA, November 14-19, 2004. USENIX 2004
Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote
Howard Ginsberg: Keynote Address: Going Digital at CNN.
SPAM/Email
Jeremy Blosser, David Josephsen: Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter (Awarded Best Paper!). 1-20
Nils Einar Eide, Andreas N. Blaafadt, Baard H. Rehn Johansen, Frode Eika Sandnes: DIGIMIMIR: A Tool for Rapid Situation Analysis of Helpdesk and Support Email. 21-32
Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron Johnson, Ming-Wei Wu, Yennun Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo: Gatekeeper: Monitoring Auto-Start Extensibility Points (ASEPs) for Spyware Management. 33-46
Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection
Sufatrio, Roland H. C. Yap, Liming Zhong: A Machine-Oriented Vulnerability Database for Automated Vulnerability Detection and Processing. 47-58
Axelle Apvrille, David Gordon, Serge E. Hallyn, Makan Pourzandi, Vincent Roy: DigSig: Runtime Authentication of Binaries at Kernel Level. 59-66
Swapnil Patil, Anand Kashyap, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez Zadok: I3FS: An In-Kernel Integrity Checker and Intrusion Detection File System. 67-78
Configuration Management
Eelco Dolstra, Merijn de Jonge, Eelco Visser: Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment. 79-92
William LeFebvre, David Snyder: Auto-configuration by File Construction: Configuration Management with newfig. 93-104
Sergei Mikhailov, Jonathan Robert Stanton: AIS: A Fast, Disk Space Efficient "Adaptable Installation System" Supporting Multitudes of Diverse Software Configurations. 105-112
Networking
Christopher J. Tengi, James M. Roberts, Joseph R. Crouthamel, Chris M. Miller, Christopher M. Sanchez: autoMAC: A Tool for Automating Network Moves, Adds, and Changes. 113-120
Carrie Gates, Michael P. Collins, Michael Duggan, Andrew Kompanek, Mark Thomas: More Netflow Tools for Performance and Security. 121-132
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Brad Daniels, Yi-Min Wang: Experience Talk: FDR: A Flight Data Recorder Using Black-BoxAnalysis of Persistent State Changes for Managing Change and Configuration.
John P. Rouillard: Real-time Log File Analysis Using the Simple Event Correlator (SEC). 133-150
Ni Lao, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma, Yi-Min Wang: Combining High Level Symptom Descriptions and Low Level State Information for Configuration Fault Diagnosis. 151-158
System Integrity
Ted Bonkenburg, Dejan Diklic, Benjamin Reed, Mark A. Smith, Michael Vanover, Steve Welch, Roger Williams: LifeBoat: An Autonomic Backup and Restore Solution. 159-170
Joseph R. Crouthamel, James M. Roberts, Christopher M. Sanchez, Christopher J. Tengi: PatchMaker: A Physical Network Patch Manager Tool. 171-176
Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Joseph Tucek: Who Moved My Data? A Backup Tracking System for Dynamic Workstation Environments. 177-186
Security
Marc Dougherty: Making a Game of Network Security. 187-194
Paul Brett, Mic Bowman, Jeff Sedayao, Robert Adams, Rob C. Knauerhase, Aaron Klingaman: Securing the PlanetLab Distributed Testbed: How to Manage Security in an Environment with No Firewalls, with All Users Having Root, and No Direct Physical Control of Any System. 195-202
Robert A. Napier: Secure Automation: Achieving Least Privilege with SSH, Sudo, and Suid. 203-212
Theory

Jon Finke: Meta Change Queue: Tracking Changes to People, Places, and Things. 231-240
Daniel Price, Andrew Tucker: Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads. 241-254
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Invited Talks
Alva L. Couch: What Is This Thing Called System Configuration?
Mark Burgess: Anomaly Detection: Whatever Happened to Computer Immunology?
Michael Ciavarella: Documentation.
Peter H. Salus: The Administrator, Then and Now.
Spam Mini-Symposium
Joshua Goodman: Filtering, Stamping, Blocking, Anti-Spoofing: How to Stop the Spam.
Douglas Hughes: Lessons Learned Reimplementing an ISP Mail Service Infrastructure to Cope with Spam.
John Graham-Cumming: What Spammers Are Doing to Get Around Bayesian Filtering & What We Can Expect for the Future.
Plenary Session
Bill Van Etten: A System Administrator's Introduction to Bioinformatics.
Network/Security/Professional Track
John Nicholson: What Information Security Laws Mean For You.
Brian Pawlowski: NFS, Its Applications and Future.
Jim Nisbet: The Security Role of Linguistic Content Analysis.
Trey Harris: A New Approach to Scripting.
Daniel V. Klein: Flying Linux.
David N. Blank-Edelman: System Administration and Sex Therapy: The Gentle Art of Debugging.
Simson L. Garfinkel: Used Disk Drives.
W. Curtis Preston: Storage Security: You're Fooling Yourself.
Guru Sessions
Gerald Carter: Samba.
Michael Bartosh: Mac OS X.
Bdale Garbee: Linux.
W. Curtis Preston: Backups.
Esther Filderman: AFS.
Robert Sparks: VoIP and IETF Standards.
David W. Parter: Professional Growth.
Gene Kim: Configuration Management.



