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Linux-Announce Digest #635
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Wed Oct 27 21:35:48 1999
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Linux-Announce Digest #635, Volume #3 Wed, 27 Oct 99 20:13:23 EDT
Contents:
psmisc version 19 - a collections of process utilities (Werner Almesberger)
WWW: Sourceware.net Linux news site sports new look (CompWiz)
COMMERCIAL: LinkScan 6.0 has increased speed with less memory (Ken Churilla)
WWW: Linuxlinks.com launches the Linux Package Guide (Steve Emms)
The Linux Console Tools 0.2.3 (Yann Dirson)
CCCPP 0.8.07 Clipper Preprocessor first public beta ("CsiszXr" Levente)
LOCAL: East Alabama Linux Users' Group (EALUG) Meeting (Kendall Price)
FWT Linux firewall tool (Ronnie Sahlberg)
sysstat-2.1 - The SAR and IOSTAT commands for Linux ("Sebastien.GODARD")
LOCAL: Nov. 3rd Philadelphia Linux Users' Group Meeting Announcement (Darxus)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 2.4 (SANFACE Software)
WWW: Linux FAQ for newbies & wannabes UPDATED (Artur Swietanowski)
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From: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: psmisc version 19 - a collections of process utilities
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:11:05 GMT
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Version 19 of psmisc is available at
ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/psmisc
and soon also at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/status/ps
.... and its mirrors.
psmisc is a collection of the following /proc-based utilities:
fuser identifies processes using files
killall kills processes by name
pidof lists PIDs of processes specified by name
pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree
This release fixes a few minor bugs. (See below for details.)
- - Werner
- ---------------------------------- CHANGES ------------------------------------
Changes from version 18 to 19 (25-OCT-1999)
=============================
- pstree: "static int" was only "static" (fix by Jeremy Buhler)
- now uses cc -E instead of /lib/cpp (suggested by Kristofer Karas)
- fuser: -s conflicted with -k (reported by David Hinds)
- fuser: using -a with -s now yields an error
- added a sanity check for signames.h (suggested by John Summerfield)
- only "signals" < 100 are now added to signames.h, eliminating SIGSTKSZ
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_________________________________________________________________________
/ Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH werner.almesberger@ica.epfl.ch /
/_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/
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From: CompWiz <compwiz@bigfoot.com>
Subject: WWW: Sourceware.net Linux news site sports new look
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:08:14 GMT
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sourceware.net, a portal site that brings you the latest news from all
the top Linux sources, is ready for primetime. Included cornucopia of
news sources include: Freshmeat, Slashdot, Linuxtoday, Techweb, Bugtraq,
User Friendly, etc.
Contacts:
WWW: http://www.sourceware.net
e-mail: webmaster@sourceware.net
IRC: sourceo on OpenProjectsNet
ICQ: 749825
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From: Ken Churilla <ken@elsop.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: LinkScan 6.0 has increased speed with less memory
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:13:27 GMT
Reply-To: ken@elsop.com
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New Release: LinkScan 6.0 has increased speed with less memory
San Jose, CA, October 26, 1999. Electronic Software Publishing
Corporation (Elsop) introduces LinkScan version 6.0.
"The dynamic nature of the World Wide Web means that hyperlinks
can become outdated rapidly as sites relocate to different servers
and, as structure and content are updated. Experience has shown
that as many as 20 percent of hyperlinks can become outdated in
just a few months. Even maintaining the integrity of the links
within a given site can be a problem, especially if more than one
person is involved in updating the pages, " said Kenneth Churilla,
president and co-founder of Electronic Software Publishing.
"Webmasters concerned with the quality of their site should
revalidate all hyperlinks on a regular basis; at least weekly and
whenever changes are made to content. Manual testing of that
intensity is essential to maintain quality, but prohibitively
time consuming and expensive. LinkScan solves the problem by
automating the task," explained Malcolm Hoar, chairman and
co-founder of the company.
LinkScan is the industrial strength link checking and website
management tool for Unix, Linux, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating
systems. It is the most accurate, fastest and most scaleable product
available and it is highly customizable. It also does HTML validation.
LinkScan creates two types of publication quality SiteMaps and it is
professionally supported. LinkScan 6.0 includes some significant
enhancements to the scanning modules.
Enhancements to the Windows version of LinkScan include the following.
Web sites are now scanned via multi-tasking HTTP navigation
and multi-tasking validation of external links is also supported.
Users can specify the number of slave processes to be used in the
scan in the graphical windows interface. The time-out/retry logic has been
greatly improved when checking slow or hung links. These changes eliminate
prior restrictions due to limitations of the Perl implementation for
Windows and greatly improves performance.
Enhancements to the Unix version of LinkScan include the following.
Web sites are now scanned via multi-tasking HTTP navigation and
the memory requirements are significantly reduced when validating
external links with multiple processes.
These performance improvements will be quite significant for
web sites that have a lot of dynamic content that must be processed
with HTTP.
LinkScan checks websites through either the file system or the
web server. Both processes are necessary. The file system process
is ten times faster than the web server process and it enables LinkScan
to identify orphan files. Checking links through the web server
enables LinkScan to check active elements such as CGI's, image maps,
external links and Server Side Includes. Having both capabilities also
enables the user to mirror their production server on either their
workstation and/or a development server.
Some of LinkScan performance features include:
Benchmarked at over 40,000 links checked per hour
Can easily check websites with 50,000 or more external links
Quickly tests sites with over 250,000 pages
Multi-threaded processing can check over 60 links concurrently
Unique blend of File System & HTTP navigation for link testing
scaleable to any size web site and multiple sites of any size
Support of server aliases and server redirections
Facility for web access via a Proxy Server
Analyze dynamic pages created by CGIs, ASPs, and RDBMSs
Smart Probing of remote links for ultra-high accuracy
History of problem links helps avoid over testing external links
Control features for reduced processing of duplicate links
Efficient interactive processing produces reports rapidly
LinkScan is being used by such large and diverse organizations as Sun
Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, the United States Department of Defense,
the Ford Motor Company, NASA, Ericsson, KPMG and the White House.
LinkScan operates on all Unix Servers (including AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD,
Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, Linux, and SunOS/Solaris flavors),
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 with Perl 5. Free fully functional
evaluation copies of LinkScan 6.0 may be downloaded from the
company's website at: http://www.elsop.com/
LinkScan Server Version 6.0 is a free upgrade to owners of
any version from 4.0 to 5.5.
Kenneth R. Churilla
President
Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
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From: Steve Emms <sde@linuxlinks.com>
Subject: WWW: Linuxlinks.com launches the Linux Package Guide
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:10:16 GMT
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Linuxlinks.com, http://www.linuxlinks.com/ introduces the Linux
Package Guide, another free service dedicated to the Linux
community.
The Package Guide is located at http://www.firstlinux.com/package/
and contains information on the core packages of the RedHat, Suse,
Caldera and Debian distributions for the Intel platform. The database
is fully searchable allowing you to find out whether a particular
distribution supports your favorite application, and moreover, in which
package that application is stored. Currently both .rpm and .deb
packages are supported and we anticipate adding further distributions
as their use becomes more widespread.
The Package Guide will be regularly updated with the latest packages
and contributions from the Linux community are always welcome.
We would like to express our thanks to Linux Central,
http://www.linuxcentral.com/, who are sponsoring this exciting
development.
Steve Emms
sde@linuxlinks.com
http://www.linuxlinks.com/
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Linuxlinks.com contains almost 6,000 Linux links making it one of the
most comprehensive Linux Portals on the net. It features news headlines,
reviews, a sophisticated search engine and is updated on a daily basis.
Firstlinux.com is a Linux meta-site and hosts the Linux Guide, Linux
Product Guide and now the Linux Package Guide.
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From: ydirson@mail.altern.org (Yann Dirson)
Subject: The Linux Console Tools 0.2.3
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:11:50 GMT
Reply-To: ydirson@altern.org
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Stable release 0.2.3 of the Linux Console Tools is now available from
http://www.altern.org/ydirson/soft/lct/.
Here are the release informations:
This is release 0.2.3 of the Linux console-tools.
This release is a bugfix release for the 0.2.x series, and
adds Italian, Danish, and Estonian messages.
See ChangeLog for details.
0.2.0 was the first of a stable branch. The data files (keymaps,
fonts and tables) formerly part of this package have been moved to a
new console-data package.
The 0.2.x branch will only get bug fixes and critically missing
features - all development will be done on the still-to-come 0.3.x
branch.
PLEASE NOTE that this release has not yet support for the CP
fontfile format back yet. It has been integrated in development
version 0.3.0.
Although it is now quite stable, this package is currently under
development: use it at your own risks. However, it should already be
a good replacement for `kbd', and you might like the features not
found in the latter, but (as usual) you have NO WARANTY of any kind.
Some interface-level features are still liable to change (program names,
option names, etc.).
Much work is needed to really get Unicode stuff usable. This will be
one of my primary goals. It will probably imply hacking the kernel as
well for some features, but the kernel-part is being thoroughly
rewritten by the GGI project, so don't hold you breath...
This package is based on `kbd-0.94', and is mostly up to date with
0.99, of which it corrects some bugs, and to which it adds several
features (Message i18n, Screen-font-map fallback tables, 16-bit
Application-Charset Maps (also called "console maps" or "screen
maps"), can now output PSF files and use "-" to read/write most files
to stdin/stdout, can make use of the G1 charset slot, etc.).
Please send all bug reports, suggestions, or anything else to myself,
(but take a look at the "TODO" file first), feedback will be greatly
appreciated.
Please get in touch with me before starting to modify this package, to
prevent duplicated work - it's enough work to keep in sync with new
kbd releases until we merge; as this code is expected to evolve quite
rapidly, it would also be helpful that not too many persons work on
the same pieces of code at the same time, to ease integration.
Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
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From: "CsiszXr" Levente <cccpp@nexus.hu>
Subject: CCCPP 0.8.07 Clipper Preprocessor first public beta
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:13:04 GMT
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Hello!
I am pleased to announce a first publicly available BETA version
of CCCPP 0.8.07, a Clipper Preprocessor:
http://www.nexus.hu/cccpp
CCCPP is a clone of preprocessor of Clipper 5.2. I tested it heavily under
Debian 2.1. I compiled about 500,000 lines with it without problems. So it's
unlikely there are still serious bugs in it.
Supported platforms:
- - - Linux glibc, e.g Debian 2.1.
- - - Windows NT 4.0 (maybe 3.51)
Levente Csiszár <cccpp@nexus.hu>
___________________________________________________________________
[NEXUS - ingyenes email & honlap mindenkinek - http://www.nexus.hu]
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From: priceke@mail.auburn.edu (Kendall Price)
Subject: LOCAL: East Alabama Linux Users' Group (EALUG) Meeting
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:10:00 GMT
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The next meeting of EALUG
(East Alabama Linux Users' Group) will be on
Wed., November 3rd, at Linux Support Services,
923 Stage Road Suite F,
Auburn, AL. At this meeting we will have:
- -Sharing Internet Connections with IP Masquerading
- -A review of the book Beginning Linux Programming
- -Planning for an Installfest
- -Have a 10-15 minute Q&A session
For a map and more info check:
http://www.auburn.edu/~priceke/ealug.html
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kendall Price
Contact Person, EALUG
priceke@yahoo.com
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From: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronnie.sahlberg@mbox301.swipnet.se>
Subject: FWT Linux firewall tool
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:07:43 GMT
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Hi.
FWT is a web based tool for remotely configuring and maintaining
the Linux network and firewalling functionality of ipchains.
Licence is GPL.
The tool supports most of the more useful features of ipchains including
masquerading, redirection of TCP-connections and policy routing.
The tool is tested and seems working on RedHat6.0 systems.
http://home.swipnet.se/rodac/doc/fwt.html
try it, it is not really that crappy,
br ronnie sahlberg
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From: "Sebastien.GODARD" <Sebastien.GODARD@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-2.1 - The SAR and IOSTAT commands for Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:13:44 GMT
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Hi everybody,
sysstat version 2.1, containing the sar and iostat commands, is now available
for all of you using Linux.
You can find it on sunsite.unc.edu, in the /pub/Linux/system/status directory
:
45kB sysstat-2.1.tar.gz
Please note that it is now available in RPM format in the same directory, both
as sources and binaries :
47kB sysstat-2.1-1.src.rpm
28kB sysstat-2.1-1.i386.rpm
New features include :
* Added memory statistics to sar: free/shared/buffer/cached pages.
* Bugs fixed : the sar and iostat commands can now work on non SMP-machines
even if the kernel is compiled with SMP support enabled.
Fixed a bug that made the time displayed by iostat wrong when reading stats
back from a file.
* Code modified to avoid division by zero in some _rare_ cases.
* Option -h added to sar to periodically print header.
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Unix IS user friendly... but it is just selective about who its friends are !
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From: Darxus <darxus@op.net>
Subject: LOCAL: Nov. 3rd Philadelphia Linux Users' Group Meeting Announcement
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:14:24 GMT
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Topic: Adam Turoff will be giving a talk on the history of Linux.
Where: The IQ Group's Technology Lab
The Constitution Building, 6th floor
325 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(map / pictures & directions on web page)
It's the room with a big "Q" on the door. The building is on the
North side of Chestnut. Nice conference room. Counted 57 chairs.
Whiteboard. PC type projector. Nice.
When: Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999, 7pm-9pm
Food: Food is being ordered for 40 people. Sandwiches & soda & stuff.
Last time all the sandwiches had meat on them.
Cost: None
PLUG, the Philadelphia Linux User's Group, meets on the first Wednesday
of every month. Thanks to the IQ Group for providing our current
meeting place.
Email Darxus@op.net with updates for this page.
The Philadelphia Linux Users Group page is http://plug.nothinbut.net the
announcement page, containing this info can be found by clicking the "Plug
Announcement" link on that page.
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From: SANFACE Software <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 2.4
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:15:43 GMT
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txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
(5 penguins rate at LinuxBerg).
It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
Why do you need txt2pdf?
Most of your documents are text files (e.g. HTML, C
source, C++ source, PERL source, ...)
Inside your DBs you have textual information
txt2pdf is a PERL5 script, so you can use it in every
operating systems supported by PERL5 (View the list of OS tested)
txt2pdf is a native converter, you don't need to pass through
PostScript format
txt2pdf is specific for text to PDF conversion, so
you can mark yellow, red, green, blue or bold, italic,
bolditalic (with PERL regular expression) words in theproduced PDF files
you can produce a 2-columns PDFyou can add page number in every page
you can add text at the beginning and at the end ofevery file
you can add a border to every page
every word like http://... ftp://... mailto:... https://...
file:... ldap:... news:... will become an URL
every word like mime:... will become a link that
launch the correct application and opens the file
you can use a few parse commands (e.g.[!blue]...[!/blue])
the fee for every licence is only $25
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence
for every good idea or for every good modifytxt2pdf is shareware
The txt2pdf source code is our company core business.
We trust you.
You can test text2pdf and modify it.
You can't use a modify version of txt2pdf for production purpose.
You can't resell txt2pdf or a modify version of it
without SANFACE Software authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source
without SANFACE Software authorization.
What's new in this version
Mac OS support [from Christian Huldt]
BeOS support [from David Cantrell]
line-wrapping bug fixed
Test txt2pdf 2.4!
You can find it in our new site http://www.sanface.com
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From: Artur Swietanowski <swietanowski@bigfoot.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux FAQ for newbies & wannabes UPDATED
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:17:10 GMT
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Hello Everyone,
A few weeks have passed and many updates were made, both to the form
and to the content of the FAQ. I already received quite a few helpful
comments regarding improving the FAQ. I look forward to more of your
input.
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My all new Linux FAQ has been created and is available from my
home page
http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski --> "Linux FAQ"
or directly
http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski/LinuxFAQ/
It is meant to be useful to new Linux users, as well as people
who consider trying Linux but are undecided and want to know what
to expect.
I realized, I end up answering the same questions on news groups over
and over again. It gets boring after a while, as you might imagine.
The answers I put up there are (hopefully) more comprehensive,
carefully worded and in general better than what you might expect me
to post just off the top of my head.
The collection is expanding and getting reorganized. If you have
proposals for new entries (either ones that you'd be willing to
contribute, or ones you'd like me to prepare), I will be glad to hear
from you. All input is appreciated, both positive and critical.
The positive comments make me feel better, the negative ones help
me improve my page ;-)
I'm not trying to replace the "official" Linux FAQs maintained by
the Linux Documentation Project.
NOTE: When bookmarking, use the redirector address given above and
not the actual page address. I am looking for another web hosting
service and will move sooner or later (unless the current host,
Crosswinds, will improve their web page maintenence facilities).
Regards,
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Artur Swietanowski http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski
Institut für Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universität Wien, Universitätsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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