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Linux-Announce Digest #913
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Sun Jan 28 12:57:22 2001
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Linux-Announce Digest #913, Volume #3 Sun, 28 Jan 01 12:13:03 EST
Contents:
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
Mailfilter 0.1.1 - a remote spam killer ("Andreas Bauer")
plug-in schedulers for linux 2_4_0 (Scott Rhine)
LOCAL: Linux Install Fest (MA, USA) (Andy Stewart)
sysstat-3.3.4 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
Ted 2.9, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released (doofpot@de-does.demon.nl)
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
KSnuffle-2.1 released (root)
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:37:46 GMT
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The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer
Association meets on the first thursday of evey month. The meeting is held
at the DMA office at 119 Valley St in Dayton at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and new users are always welcome.
For additional information contact:
Tony Snyder
snydert@dmapub.dma.org
937-275-7913
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From: "Andreas Bauer" <just.another@address.postoffice.net>
Subject: Mailfilter 0.1.1 - a remote spam killer
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:49:34 GMT
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Dear All
This announcement is to inform you about a new `stable' version of
Mailfilter.
Mailfilter is a flexible utility to get rid of unwanted spam mails, before
having to go through the trouble of downloading them into the local
computer. It offers support for one or many POP3 accounts and is
especially useful for dialup connections via modem. You can define your
own filters (rules) to determine which e-mails should be delivered and
which are considered waste.
Download the latest version from:
http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
This release fixes adds a lot of new features (friends lists,
normalisation, test mode, etc.) and offers support for extended Regular
Expressions. Also the memory management has been improved and numerous
smaller bugs were removed. The documentation was updated and proper man
pages were added, too.
Thanks for your time and interest and please give send me your comments
or bug reports! All feedback is more than appreciated!
Andi.
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Andreas Bauer, baueran@in.tum.de
http://home.in.tum.de/baueran/
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From: Scott Rhine <rhine@rsn.hp.com>
Subject: plug-in schedulers for linux 2_4_0
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:45:56 GMT
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In the last month, there have been a few more minor changes to Loadable
Schedulers for Linux. Both a new patch to the base kernels and deltas to
previous downloads are provided. If you download new utilities be sure to
download the new kernel, or libpset calls may not behave properly!
Changes included:
* support for the official release of Linux 2_4_0
+ a misleading print line in the sched_rr benchmark has been removed.
+ the psetps utility further bullet-proofed against buffer overflow.
+ our pset idtype_t has been replaced universally with the portable
type from the standardized include file <sys/wait.h>. In all utilities and
the kernel, PS_PID has been replaced with P_PID.
One note for those using processor sets with animation. Make certain that
the X server or other display daemons are in the same pset as the application
attempting to use the display. Otherwise, performance may suffer.
Watch for our demonstration at the HP booth at Linux World and our
presentation at Interworks!
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From: Andy Stewart <astewart@world.std.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux Install Fest (MA, USA)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:47:52 GMT
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Hi everyone,
On February 17th, 2001, the Worcester Linux Users' Group will be hosting their
3rd Annual Linux Install Fest at Stratus Computer in Maynard, Massachusetts,
USA.
If you've been thinking of installing Linux on your home PC, or have had trouble
installing Linux in the past, this event is for you! Last year we had a great
turnout and are hoping to make this year even better. This event is open to the
general public, so feel free to pass this information along!
We request a $10 donation to recoup the costs associated with the event. We
will also be providing some basic group instruction with regards to system
administration and fine tuning.
Human Resources will be on hand collecting résumé's, handing out goodies and
providing lunch for all the attendees.
If you'd like to sign up for the Install Fest, volunteer to help out, or want
more information, send email to:
tim_keller@stratus.com
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Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | "It's Fabulous! We haven't seen anything
Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | like it in the last half an hour!" --
Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | Macy's
http://www.wlug.org |
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From: Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-3.3.4 - System performance tools for Linux
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:47:08 GMT
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Hello,
Sysstat release 3.3.4 has been uploaded to sunsite/metalab server:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/status/
70kB sysstat-3.3.4.tar.gz
73kB sysstat-3.3.4-1.src.rpm
55kB sysstat-3.3.4-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
for Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
Sysstat release 3.3.4 is now fully compliant will Linux 2.4.x kernels.
The bulk of the work has concerned iostat. I still plan to extend the
possibilities of this command and to make it use the additionnal
statistics provided by Stephen Tweedie's patch.
Please note that version 3.3.4 is a development release. The latest
stable version is still 3.2.4.
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Changes vs 3.3.3 are:
2000/01/26: Version 3.3.4
* Disk I/O statistics for the last device were counted twice when
reading /proc/stat file with 2.4 kernels (sar -b). This is now fixed.
* iostat command is no longer able to save its data to a file. In fact,
iostat has never been supposed to work that way, and I have never really
maintained this function.
* iostat now also works with 2.4 kernels. It can handle the format of
the /proc/stat file for both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.
* sar now reports statistics on allocated disk quotas entries instead of
on used ones (sar -v).
* Manual pages updated for sar and iostat.
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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From: doofpot@de-does.demon.nl
Subject: Ted 2.9, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:39:14 GMT
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Ted 2.9, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released.
Utrecht, January 31, 2001
Available from
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ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted
Description of Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role
of Wordpad on MS-Windows. Functionally Ted is more powerful than
Wordpad. It seeks to find a compromise between the simplicity of
Wordpad and the functionality of MS-Word. The possibility to type a
letter, a note or a simple report on a Unix/Linux machine is clearly
missing. Only too often, you have to turn to MS-Windows machine to
write a letter or a document. Ted was made to edit rich text documents
on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg way.
To my own modest opinion, Ted is really easy to use and of good
quality. I hope that you will find Ted useful.
Changes since version 2.8
(Ted 2.9 January 31, 2001)
* Full support for page headers and footers including page
numbers.
* Functionality for making a table of contents such as
references and page number references.
* The page layout tool was broken in Ted 2.8. It works again.
* Bugs in table layout fixed.
* Considerable improvements in WMF drawing.
* Improvements in the drawing code. There is less flicker on
slow computers and a bug with redrawing while scrolling with
the arrow keys is solved.
* Command line conversion to html or to plain text.
* Command line printing to file. I.E. conversion to PostScript.
* The improvements in WMF drawing and support for PAGEREF
fields make the pdf files from the printed postscript very
similar to the RTF original.
* Some steps toward the support of Cyrillic. I still need input
from a knowledgeable specialist.
* Improvements in the documentation and the user interface.
* Ted can be compiled to use the GTK+ Widget set. The GTK
version is not yet complete.
Details on Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important
role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted should,
without any loss of formatting or information, be accepted as a legal
..rtf file by Word. Compatibility in the other direction is more
difficult to achieve. Ted supports many of the formatting features of
the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta
information are ignored.*) By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted
tries to get the complete text of a document on screen or to the
printer. Ted can be used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows
machine to Unix, to print an RTF document, or to convert it to Acrobat
PDF format. Below we explain how to configure Ted as an RTF viewer in
Netscape and how to convert an RTF document to PDF with Ted and
GhostScript.
*) Most of the ignored information is not saved either when you
modify and then save an RTF document with Ted.
Features
ˇ Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which
you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font. Ted
is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are
available on Motif systems and in all postscript printers:
Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. Other fonts can be added
with the normal X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and
italic are supported; so is underlining and are subscripts and
superscripts.
ˇ Ted uses Microsoft RTF as its native file format. Microsoft
Word and Wordpad can read files produced by Ted. Usually Ted
can read .rtf files from Microsoft Word and Wordpad. As Ted
does not support all features of Word,some formatting
information might be lost.
ˇ In line bitmap and windows metafile pictures.
ˇ PostScript printing of the document and its illustrations.
Saved PostScript files contain pdfmarks that are converted to
hyperlinks when they are converted to Acrobat PDF.
ˇ Spelling checking in twelve Latin languages.
ˇ Directly mailing documents from Ted.
ˇ Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
ˇ Find/Replace.
ˇ Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line,
Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler.
ˇ Page breaks.
ˇ Page headers and footers. Page numbers in the headers and
footers.
ˇ Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width
of tables with their ruler.
ˇ Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
ˇ Hyperlinks and bookmarks.
ˇ Saving a document in HTML format.
ˇ Probably the best illustration of what you can do with Ted is
its documentation that has been made with Ted.
For a detailed description and a manual, refer to the readme.* files
on the web site in plain text, HTML or RTF format.
Changes since version 2.7
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(Ted 2.8: April 15, 2000)
* Editing behavior closer to that of Word. E.G. support for
Control key in navigation and selection has been extended.
* Private compilations and installations have been made easier.
Changes since version 2.6
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(Ted 2.7: December 31, 1999)
* A major step toward wysiwyg vertical layout: Pagination is
visible on screen.
* Preparations for page headers, footers and page numbers.
* Many features added for printing the document. Ted now also
prints on Level 1 PostScript printers. An annoyance with
locales that use a comma in decimal numbers and printing has
been removed.
Changes since version 2.5
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(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
* The HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct.
* Better support for character sets different from latin 1. In
particular for Latin2 documents.
* Subsequent steps in moving from the X11 layout on screen to
the exact PostScript layout.
Changes since version 2.4
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(Ted 2.5: July 31, 1999)
* The layout of the text on the screen is no longer independent
of the PostScript layout. Whenever possible, the PostScript
layout is used on screen. Right aligned and centered text are
supported.
* The PostScript Ted saves to file contains so-called pdfmarks
to keep the links and bookmarks when they are converted to the
Acrobat PDF format.
* Use the new German orthography in the spell checker, thanks
to Joerg Jacke.
* Added a Polish spell checker.
Changes since version 2.3
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(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
* Finding an X11 font with the PostScript font has been revised.
* Little bugs that prevented Ted from working with other than
Latin1 fonts removed.
* The Ted document has been improved. It is added as an online
document.
* Elementary support for interaction with session managers.
* Some compilation procedure fixes. Distribution also in RPM
format.
Changes since version 2.2
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Compared to version 2.2, 2.3 is yet another usability update. (Ted
2.3: March 11, 1999)
* Printing of tables.
* X11 servers with a 'depth' that is not a multiple of 8
supported. Better cooperation with widow managers that do not
force a window to fit on the screen.
* Better picture support.
Changes since version 2.0
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Compared to version 2.0, 2.2 does not offer much more functionality.
Many little features have been added, and a myriad of bugs has been
fixed. The user interface has been polished a lot to improve Teds
usability. (Ted 2.2:February 6, 1999)
* The compilation procedure has been improved a lot, and Ted
has been tested with LessTif.
January 31, 2001
Mark de Does.
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:44:16 GMT
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WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.6a
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
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The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and
read them without having to remain connected.
Basic Features
- Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols.
- Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods.
- Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status.
- Highly configurable.
- Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated.
While Online
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.
- Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session.
- Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https).
- Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page.
- Control which pages cannot be accessed.
- Allow replacement of blocked pages.
- Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache.
While Offline
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
- Using normal browser to follow links.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.
Automated Download
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
- Understands various types of pages
- HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
- Options to fetch different classes of objects
- Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
- To specified depth.
- On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
- Chosen from command line or from browser.
- Control over which links can be fetched recursively.
Convenience
- Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options.
- Options to modify HTML pages
- Remove Javascript.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Demoronise HTML character sets.
- Remove refresh tags.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig or UdmSearch programs.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Timeouts to stop proxy lockups
- DNS name lookups.
- Remote server connection.
- Data transfer.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client.
- Based on file size of fraction downloaded.
- Purging of pages from cache
- Based on URL matching.
- To keep the cache size below a specified limit.
- To keep the free disk space above a specified limit.
- Interactive or command line control.
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages requested last time offline.
- Pages fetched last time online.
- Pages monitored on a regular basis.
- Configurable indexes
- Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file.
- Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages.
- Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages.
Security
- Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication.
- Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it.
- Control over access to the proxy
- Defaults to local host access only.
- Host access configured by hostname or IP address.
- Optional proxy authentication for user level access control.
- Optional password control for proxy management functions.
- Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy.
Configuration
- All options controlled using a configuration file.
- Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file.
- User customisable error and information pages.
Changes
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Since version 2.6:
Bug Fixes:
Fix crash with invalid entries in config file. Handle some invalid URL
encodings that servers/clients use. Stop crashes when monitoring illegal
refresh URLs. Handle malformed headers better. Check the DontGet section of
the configuration file when doing SSL. Print error messages when starting on
stderr. Read the configuration file if using wwwoffle-write. Fix bug with
form argument parsing. Set fetch-stylesheets to true in the default config
file. Bug fixes for modifying HTML with meta refresh tags. Stop duplicated
items in the configuration file.
Win32 Bug Fixes:
Fixed logfile opening problem. Added a fchdir() function for cygwin.
Workaround cygwin socket closing problem. Change the makefile for cygwin
installation (don't auto install .dll or .bat).
Documentation
Updated the Welcome.html page to include more links to useful information.
Include an HTML version of README.CONF in the html directory.
Updated several README files and INSTALL file.
Availability
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FTP server: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.6.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.6.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
- ------------------
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
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Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
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From: root <root@norbi.wel.wat.waw.pl>
Subject: KSnuffle-2.1 released
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:48:41 GMT
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KSnuffle, the KDE network packet sniffer, is now available for download
from:
ftp://195.92.31.34/ksnuffle-2.1/ksnuffle-2.1.tgz
This version has been built against Kde2.0.1/Qt2.2.2, and also against
a fairly recent KDE2.1 CVS snapshot.
The manual pages are online at
http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk/ksnuffle.manual
The main change from 2.0 is a bug fix for a problem which affected
multiple sniffers on the same interface. For instance, if you had three
sniffers on eth0, and killed one of them, then the other two stopped
and could not be restarted. This should be fixed now.
Apart from this, minor changes only, and I have remembered to remove
the config.cache files from the tarball this time :-)
A few people have asked about RPMs. Sorry, none avaiable. I've got a
non-standard setup anyway, and there are two many combinations (RH, Suse,
Mandrake, installed under /usr or /opt/kde, etc.) to do this. Volunteers?
Regards
Mike Richardson
mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
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KSnuffle is a network packet sniffer for KDE. Features include:
* Basic filtering and packet selection via the GUI
* Advanced filtering and packet selection via filter programs
* Multiple concurrent monitors
* Text and binary logging, plus replay of binary log files
* Textual display of network traffic overview
* Full(er) details of protocol and application data available
* Display of data in TCP/IP streams
* Network load histograms and time-averaged load display
* Parallel display of multiple load histograms
* Save and restored filter and packet selection configurations
* Support for use by selected non-root users
* Plugin support - 0.8 contains plugins for
* TCP/IP stream monitoring
* DNS lookup monitoring,
* Traffic summaries
* End-to-End summaries
In its current state it is, so far as I can tell, quite reliable. The
main area where is is lacking is actually decoding different network
packets. At the moment, it handles basic decoding of TCP/IP and UDP/IP,
plus ARP/RARP and ICMP. Packet decoding does not go down into the
application level except for DNS packets.
Also, KSnuffle uses libpcap-0.4, as used by tcpdump. As I only have access
to Linux boxen, I cannot build or test it for any other Unix. I'd be
interested if anyone else could try.
KSnuffle is available from ftp://195.92.31.34/pub/ksnuffle-2.1/ ; there
is a homepage at http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk/ksnuffle.html. The latter
contains some screen shots and other information.
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