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Linux-Announce Digest #756
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Linux-Announce Digest #756, Volume #3 Sat, 8 Apr 00 09:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Trustix Secure Linux 1.0 (Erlend Midttun)
COMMERCIAL: New german book about Blender: "Das Blender-Buch" (Carsten Wartmann)
COMMERCIAL: FreeGIS-CD 1.0.2 - Free Geographic Information System + Data Collection (Bernhard Reiter)
Linux Documentation Project (Stein Gjoen)
rp-pppoe 1.7 -- Robust PPPoE client for Linux ("David F. Skoll")
Remind 3.0.21 - Sophisticated calendar/alarm program ("David F. Skoll")
WWW: LinuxMonth Issue # 1 is now online ("Baiju Thakkar")
SHAREWARE: MAT Monitoring and Administration Tool 0.22 Released ("S. Mark Black")
Bash-2.04 available for FTP (Chet Ramey)
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From: Erlend Midttun <erlendbm@tihlde.org>
Subject: Trustix Secure Linux 1.0
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:32:24 GMT
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Hello,
We are proud to announce the release of Trustix Secure Linux 1.0, a server
oriented Linux distribution.
For more information, please see <URL:http://www.trustix.net/>
Erlend..
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IRC: Golle
http://www.tihlde.org/~erlendbm/ A Unix Admin
Java, the sendmail of WWW
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From: Carsten Wartmann <cw@imago-viva.de>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: New german book about Blender: "Das Blender-Buch"
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:33:42 GMT
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I´m proud to announce my new german book about Blender
(http://www.blender.nl) a real multiplattform 3D design and animation
software. Blender is free downloadable.
The next text is german because the book is also written in german:
- ------------------------ Das Blender-Buch -------------------------
Blender ist ein 3D-Modellierungs- und
Animationswerkzeug, das im Internet kostenlos
erhältlich ist und unter anderem auf Linux- und
Windows-Rechnern läuft.
Dieses Buch gibt eine kompakte und leicht
nachvollziehbare Einführung in das Programm, die
Erstellung von dreidimensionalen Szenen und
Animationen, die zum Beispiel zur Verschönerung
persönlicher Websites oder des Urlaubsvideos geeignet
sind.
Nach einer ausführlichen Guided Tour durch das
Programm und seine Bedienungselemente, lernt der
Leser in übersichtlichen Tutorials Schritt für Schritt die
vielfältigen Möglichkeiten von Blender kennen und
einzusetzen.
Die Tutorials behandeln unter anderem Themen wie:
Modellierung mit Polygonen, Kurven und
Oberflächen
Landschaften aus der Retorte (Höhenfelder)
eine animierte Acherbahnfahrt
3D-Text, Logos
Material und Textur
Animation mit Keyframes, Pfaden und Partikeln
Skelettanimation und inverse Kinematik
3D-Objekte in ein Video integrieren
Nach der Lektüre kennt man alle wichtigen Fähigkeiten von Blender und
kann mit ihnen kreativ umgehen, um eigene dreidimensionale Welten
zu entwerfen.
292 Seiten, Broschur, mit CD
2000, dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg
DM 69,00 / öS 504,00 / sFr 62,50
ISBN 3-932588-62-2
Deutschsprachige Informationen zu Blender und dem Buch gibt es auf:
http://www.blenderbuch.de/
Allgemeine Infos zu Blender:
http://www.blender.nl/
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Carsten Wartmann
cw@blenderbuch.de
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From: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: FreeGIS-CD 1.0.2 - Free Geographic Information System + Data Collection
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:30:41 GMT
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FreeGIS CD 1.0.2 for GNU/Linux (i586) available for 25 $/Euro (*)
A collection of free software and data for geographic information processing
and mapping. It includes major applications(GRASS), development-libraries
and data. A certain familiarity with Linux and GIS is prerequisite.
The CD-sales aid funding to the FreeGIS project.
Highlights: complete Geographic Information System (GRASS)
ready to run internet mapserver demos
world wide coastline data
Software: GRASS 5.0beta5, GRASS 4.2.1, GMT 3.3.3, iGMT 1.2,
gmap 1.1.2, mapserver 3.3.006, shapelib 1.2.6,
tkgeomap 1.2, gen2shp 0.2.2, PROJ.4 4.3.3
Data : GMT data (includes GSHHS), GTOPO30, Alaska Map
Requirements: kernel >2.2.x, libc6 (glibc2.1), CPU >= i586
Tested with: RedHat 6.1, Mandrake 6.1, SuSE 6.2, Debian "potato"
http://freegis.org/order.en.html
(*) shipping and VAT included. CD ships out of the US and Germany.
If you speak German, check our webpages for more offers in _"Deutsch"_.
http://freegis.org/cd.de.html
What is a GIS?
--------------
In the strictest sense, a Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer
system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying
geographically referenced information , i.e. data identified according to
their locations.
Details:
http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/gisfaq?Q2.1
About the FreeGIS Project:
--------------------------
The Free GIS project focusses on free GIS and mapping software.
Annoyed by the hassles of proprietrary tools the founders of
this project started the first site dedicated to free(speech)
GIS software and data. Map creation and analysis of spatial data
will be an important desktop application. The project promotes
free software solutions.
http://freegis.org
About Intevation GmbH
---------------------
Intevation GmbH, located in Osnabrück, Germany is a free software
consulting company. Beyond the technological implications its aim is
to empower partners with the advantages of free software culture
and usable computer solutions. Intevation publishes the FreeGIS and
sponsors and the FreeGIS project.
http://intevation.net
13.3.2000 Bernhard Reiter
on behalf of the FreeGIS-CD-Editorial Board.
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From: Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net>
Subject: Linux Documentation Project
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:34:54 GMT
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After some restructuring of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
we feel ready to serve the Linux community from the new home
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/
which we hope you will bookmark since this is where we will
announce the latest developments to keep you updated.
The LDP has collected and produced numerous documents such as
- guides
- HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs
- FAQs
- man pages (excluding application man pages)
and more.
All in all the LDP endeavors to produce and provide a one-stop source of
core information relating to the various aspects of Linux. There is now
a search engine on the front page to help you quickly and efficiently
locate the documents you need. If you have a question, chances are you
will find what you need here. Note that manuals on applications are not
included here; those usually come with the respective installation files.
Also we provide an extensive set of links to sources of information that
we do not produce ourselves. If you find we are missing important links
we are happy to receive these through our link submission form.
These documents are produced for you, the end users. That means if there
is anything in the documents you find unclear, ambiguous or incorrect
you should not hesitate in contacting the author. While the workload of
the authors in general may be high and they cannot be expected to answer
specific problems you may have on your machine, generally authors are
only happy to receive feedback on the documents.
Likewise, if you feel you have something to contribute or you wish to try
your hand as an LDP author you are welcome to contact the LDP coordinator
with your inputs (see the HOWTO-HOWTO). Remember that new documents are
produced all the time so it is important to contact the LDP before you
start writing in order to eliminate the possibility of duplicate work.
Remember that you do not have to be on-line to read the HOWTOs, in many
cases these documents are installed with your Linux distribution and can
be found at
file:///usr/doc/HOWTO /usr/doc/HOWTO/ most distributions
file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ some recent distr.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
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From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: rp-pppoe 1.7 -- Robust PPPoE client for Linux
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:37:08 GMT
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Version 1.7 of rp-pppoe has been released.
rp-pppoe is a user-mode client for the Point-to-Point Protocol over
Ethernet, a protocol used by many ADSL Internet service providers. It
runs with standard Linux kernels (2.0 or 2.2; no kernel modification
required.)
I'm pleased to announce the release of version 1.7 of my Linux PPPoE
client.
Changes:
- - DEBUG mode for diagnosing connection problems.
- - adsl-start script had a bug if invoked with arguments; this is fixed.
- - simple canned firewall scripts included for (some) additional
security.
Grab it at:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe.html
Regards,
David.
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From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: Remind 3.0.21 - Sophisticated calendar/alarm program
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:37:35 GMT
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I have released version 3.0.21 of Remind, a sophisticated multi-lingual
calendar program.
Remind is a full-featured calendar/reminder program featuring
sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew
calendar, alarms, PostScript output, X-Windows front-end, multilingual
messages, and proper handling of holidays. Available for UNIX and other
UNIX-like platforms. Includes scripts for making a nice WWW calendar
server.
Remind's home page and download area have moved to:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind.html
Changes since 3.0.20:
MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
Updated copyright years and contact info.
Changed GIF images to PNG to avoid patent problems.
Added "cm2trem.tcl" to convert from CDE's "cm" calendar manager to
Remind format. It handles only an older version of "cm" data; there is
a utility available (under Solaris anyway) to convert newer files to the
older "cm" format.
Fixed the scripts in the "www" directory to install and work properly.
Added "remind.vim" file for Vim syntax highlighting of Remind files,
thanks to Davide Alberani.
Added "dusk" and "dawn" built-in functions, thanks to Ron Aaron.
BUG FIXES
Files for no-longer-supported platforms (OS/2, amiga, MS-DOS) have been
moved to OBSOLETE subdirectory. They will disappear unless someone
wants to maintain them.
Fixed typo which caused compilation failure on compilers without
function prototypes. Thanks to Ian Darwin for the patch.
Fixed compilation problem on FreeBSD, IRIX, Tru64 and other UNIXes.
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From: "Baiju Thakkar" <bthak@bascom.com>
Subject: WWW: LinuxMonth Issue # 1 is now online
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:39:47 GMT
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www.linuxmonth.com has been officially launched with an
excellent first issue. Here is a list of articles that can
be found in the first issue.
How will you spend your lunch hour?
Linux Networking Basics: Ground Zero
So You're Crazy?
Flexing Your Modules
Interview with Illiad
The Real Issue with LinuxOne
Can You Handle The Traffic ? - Part 1
Also these short tutorials:
Tracing your program
Creating shortcuts to your [GNOME] desktop
We are also looking for volunteer writers. If anyone wants
to contribute a tip, an article an suggestion to an article,
please do so to <suggestions@linuxmonth.com> Thank you very
much and enjoy the articles.
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Baiju Thakkar
http://www.perlmonth.com http://www.linuxmonth.com
Just use Perl; #!/boot/linux
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From: "S. Mark Black" <sblack@ee.ryerson.ca>
Subject: SHAREWARE: MAT Monitoring and Administration Tool 0.22 Released
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:49:06 GMT
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Hi
I'm proud to announce a new release of the Monitoring and Administration
Tool (MAT). This is primarily a bug fix release. It introduces one
significant new feature: The ability to run MAT commands on many hosts
at the same time.
This allows such things as:
- - Changing the root password on all your systems in seconds.
- - Add a local group entry to 1 or 1000 hosts with a few mouse clicks.
- - Change the configuration files on all you web servers by changing one.
See the MAT web site for a full description of all the changes:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/mat
It contains screen-shots, as well as descriptions of MAT's functions.
Below is a description of this release of MAT.
Monitoring & Administration Tool (MAT)
--------------------------------------
MAT is an enterprise monitoring and administration tool. It allows
you as an administrator, or authorized individual, to manage a
hetrogeneous UNIX network. It hides
most of the complexity of the standard configuration files making it
easier administer. The monitoring daemon provides historical
information about a hosts status. Several monitored parameters
can be graphed to aid capacity planning. The monitored parameters
can trigger events when a threshold is exceeded, alerting
administrators to problems.
Some of the advanced features include the ability to upgrade it's self
as new versions, or upgrades become available, the ability to allow
other users to control some or all of the administrative functions.
The ability to see the "health" of a host.
MAT is in three parts, the MAT agent, the MAT daemon, and the MAT
console. The MAT agent does the actual work of modifing files,
running commands, and inspecting the system. The MAT daemon MATd
periodically monitors system parameters, and can send alarms.
The MAT console provides an easy to use GUI which sends commands to
the MAT agent to manipulate and query standard UNIX configuration
files. It also provides an easy to use GUI for graphing the MATd
results and controlling the parameters monitored by MATd.
MAT is available for Linux, SunOS 4.1.x, and Solaris. An alpha
port to IRIX 6.x is included. Currently MAT
allows you to add, modify and delete the following:
Users (Site specific user defaults are supported)
Groups
Hosts
Email Aliases
Mounted filesystems
Crontab entries
DNS client configuration
Login message (motd)
Services
Exported (shared) filesystems
DNS domains & records
Most NIS records
Syslogd entries
MAT allows you inspect many of the common system parameters including:
All syslog files (TK 8.0 recommended for this)
Routes
Processes
Lastlog
Diskspace
Exports
The monitoring deamon MATd runs scripts for monitoring of:
Network Connectivity (through ICMP)
Required Processes
Disk usage
CPU use
Run queue
User logins
FTP server status
SMTP server status
Network Interface Activity
SWAP, and Memory use are monitored in the Linux version.
A simple plotting tool allows you to graph the various monitored
parameters. The monitoring scripts are written in Perl, and should
be easy to customize and expand. The MAT probe has been updated to
display it's current status.
Requirements:
- -------------
For the MAT agent you need a UNIX machine running:
Linux 2.x
SunOS 4.1.4
Solaris 5.x
IRIX 6.x
HPUX 10.10 or 10.20
Perl 5.x is needed for the monitored parameters and alarms.
The Console requires Tcl/TK on at least one host.
License:
- --------
Free for single host installations, otherwise it is shareware.
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From: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
Subject: Bash-2.04 available for FTP
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:46:33 GMT
Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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The first public release of bash-2.04 is now available with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz
and from the usual GNU mirror sites.
This tar file does not include the formatted documentation
(postscript, dvi, html, and nroffed versions of the manual pages);
that may be retrieved with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-2.03.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-doc-2.03.tar.gz
When unpacking the documentation, make sure to extract the tar file
in the bash-2.04 source directory.
Diffs from bash-2.03 are available with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-2.03-2.04.diff.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-2.03-2.04.diff.gz
Make sure to apply the diffs using `patch -p1' from within a
bash-2.03 source directory.
Please use `bashbug' to report bugs with this version. It is built
and installed at the same time as bash.
Installation
============
Please read the README file first.
Installation instructions are provided in the INSTALL file.
New Features
============
Read the file NEWS in the bash-2.04 distribution. Here is a short list:
o Programmable word completion with the new `complete' and `compgen' builtins;
examples are provided in examples/complete/complete-examples
o `history' has a new `-d' option to delete a history entry
o `bind' has a new `-x' option to bind key sequences to shell commands
o The prompt expansion code has new `\j' and `\l' escape sequences
o The `no_empty_command_completion' shell option, if enabled, inhibits
command completion when TAB is typed on an empty line
o `help' has a new `-s' option to print a usage synopsis
o New arithmetic operators: var++, var--, ++var, --var, expr1,expr2 (comma)
o New ksh93-style arithmetic for command:
for ((expr1 ; expr2; expr3 )); do list; done
o `read' has new options: `-t', `-n', `-d', `-s'
o The redirection code handles several filenames specially: /dev/fd/N,
/dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr
o The redirection code now recognizes /dev/tcp/HOST/PORT and
/dev/udp/HOST/PORT and tries to open a TCP or UDP socket, respectively,
to the specified port on the specified host
o The ${!prefix*} expansion has been implemented
o A new FUNCNAME variable, which expands to the name of a currently-executing
function
o The GROUPS variable is no longer readonly
o A new shopt `xpg_echo' variable, to control the behavior of echo with
respect to backslash-escape sequences at runtime
o The NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS #define has returned
Changed have been made to the Readline library being released at
the same time as bash-2.04, readline-4.1, so that Bash can be
linked against an already-installed Readline library rather than
the private version in lib/readline. Only readline-4.1 is able
to provide all of the symbols that bash-2.04 requires; earlier
versions of the Readline library will not work correctly.
A complete list of changes between bash-2.03 and bash-2.04 is
available in the file CHANGES.
A Peek at the Future
====================
I'm thinking about an implementation of associative arrays, like
those in ksh-93.
Readline
========
Also available is a new release of the standalone readline library,
version 4.1, with its own configuration scripts and Makefiles.
It can be retrieved with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.1.tar.gz
and from the usual GNU mirror sites.
Diffs from readline-4.0 are available with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-4.0-4.1.diff.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.0-4.1.diff.gz
Make sure to install the patches using `patch -p1 < patch-file' from
within a readline-4.0 source directory.
The formatted Readline documentation is included in the readline
distribution tar file.
A separate announcement listing the changes in Readline is being
distributed.
As always, thanks for your help.
Chet
- --
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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
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