The latest issue of The SAGE (The Systems Administrators Guild) newsletter is out. Topics covered include:

* Careers: SAGE/SANS/BigAdmin Salary Survey Continues
* Security: Who you gonna call?
* Security: Not the aliens you were looking for (SETI@home flaw)
* Primer: Getting started w/MRTG
* Security: You mean the blackbox in Sneakers was a lie?
* Military: The Army’s first digital division
* Spam: Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain
* Careers: Study predicts mainframe skills shortage
* Review: Red Hat 9: One Admin’s Opinion
* SAGE: This week in SAGEwire

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Also, The April 2003 issue of ;login: (The Magazine of USENIX & SAGE) is out, and has several articles of interest to System Administrators. There’s a very good article on “IPv6 Configuration on Solaris 9 and FreeBSD-4.x” which also covers DNS and IPSec.

Other articles include:

“Not on my watch!” – a review of Anti-spam technologies
“Ups and downs of Unix/Linux host-based security solutions”
“Hacking for fun & profit” – penetration testing and black/white hats

Thanks to Donal for the reminder that these were out!