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what="official UNIGROUP announcement"
rsvp="registration requested, see below"
entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html"
location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below"
info="http://www.unigroup.org"
edits="some paragraphs removed so notice fits in mailboxen">

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 03:46:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist(a)unigroup.org>
Subject: UNIGROUP 15-JUL-2010 (Thu): BASH Programming; Ubuntu UPSTART init daemon

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JULY 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JULY 2010 MEETING NOTICE
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When: THURSDAY, July 15th, 2010 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 506ES (Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
** Please RSVP **

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.

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Topic: BASH Shell Programming and The Ubuntu UPSTART Init Daemon
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Speaker: Mark G. Sobell,
Author of Various Unix/Linux Books,
Sobell Associates Inc.

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INTRODUCTION:
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Over the years, Unigroup has been raffling off review copies of
various big and comprehensive Unix/Linux-related Books published
by Addison Wesley/Prentice Hall... and many of them were authored
by our July 2010 speaker... Mark Sobell. We are pleased to be
able to have Mark present at Unigroup this month.

Mark will be presenting a double topic, on BASH, and on UPSTART.
(We can partition the available meeting time depending on audience
topic preferences).

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.

Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.

Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER SOURCE
provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.

Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: BASH Shell Programming and The Ubuntu UPSTART Init Daemon

Introduction:
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Upstart

Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does
not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices,
USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems,
Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon. The
runlevel-based SysVinit daemon uses runlevels
(recovery/single-user, multi-user, and more) and links from the
/etc/rc?.d directories to the init scripts in /etc/init.d to
start and stop system services. The event-based Upstart init
daemon uses events to start and stop system services.

bash

The bash (Bourne-Again) Shell is based on Bourne Shell and has
many enhancements drawn from the Korn and C Shells. It was
developed by the GNU Project and is widely used on UNIX-like
systems. It is useful both as an interactive shell and a
high-level programming language.


Detailed Outline:
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The Upstart init daemon
- Definition of terms
- Runlevel emulation
- initctl
- Jobs
- Events
- Job definition files

Writing bash Shell Scripts
- Quoting Mechanisms
- Positional (Command Line) Parameters
- File Descriptors
- Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error
- Using exec to Redirect I/O
- Command Substitution
- Menus
- Array variables
- Functions


References & Web Resources:
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To-be-announced.

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Speaker Biography:
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Mark G. Sobell, author of many best-selling books, including A
Practical Guide to the UNIX System, UNIX System V: A Practical Guide,
A Practical Guide to Solaris, and A Practical Guide to Linux,
(all from Addison Wesley), as well as A Practical Guide to Red
Hat Linux, Fifth Edition, A Practical Guide to Linux Commands,
Editors, and Shell Programming, Second Edition, and A Practical Guide
to Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition (available shortly) (all from Prentice
Hall), and has more than twenty-five years of experience working with
UNIX and Linux.

Mark is the president of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm
that designs and builds custom software applications for UNIX and
Linux systems and provides training and support. Mr. Sobell started
working with computers part time after high-school where he worked on
the Dartmouth Time-sharing system where they developed the BASIC
programming language and on IBM OS/360 systems. He started writing
when he worked for microcomputer company Cromemco in the late 1970's.
He published his first book (A Practical Guide to UNIX) in 1982 and
started Sobell Associates in 1984. He has been writing and consulting
ever since.

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Company Biography:
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(see above)

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

We have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the
local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This
includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna
and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato,
tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and
assorted SOFT beverages.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
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Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secretary(a)lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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