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Linux-Announce Digest #15
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Linux-Announce Digest #15, Volume #4 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
WWW: Mstation aka Linux MusicStation new stuff (John Littler)
PasTmon-0.1.6 Response Time Monitor Released ("glbevan")
Clobberd 4.17 released (Jason Nunn)
LOCAL: [Davis, CA] Sep. 17 LUG meeting: "Netfilter", plus "screen" (William Kendrick)
protector - 1.00.2 -- GPLed e-mail virus protection (Chris Lowth)
Newbie command reference (Josh Rogers)
BBLimage 0.64 - Toolkit for volume image processing (Paul Hughett)
COMMERCIAL: Linux box 1Ghz for $499 (sales)
man_db 2.3.20 released (Colin Watson)
Mailing List on Unicode / UTF-8 (Markus Kuhn)
LUG on the Gold Coast in Australia? (Aku Bird)
GPIB (IEEE-488.2) supports Kernel 2.4x (Friedel Hacker)
KSnuffle-2.2 released (Telnet from Dev350)
linksys2syslog (Vadim Zaliva)
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:43:57 CST
From: John Littler <jlittler@mstation.org>
Subject: WWW: Mstation aka Linux MusicStation new stuff
M station News for September 01
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Hi,
Another month is here ...
RV was a London underground DJ in the 90's. He talks about the
life and the music and what he's doing now.
Interview
sylvi macCormac is a folk singer and electroacoustic composer with
poetry in her veins.
Interview
During the month we've added Classical reviews to our
review section.
There're not many there yet but there will be! Our emphasis will be
generally on less obvious parts of the repertoire and will include
Early music and Church music.
In BeatZ this week we have the usual timely music news stories and
interviews with singer Coco and songwriter Rob Davis.
We've also added an archive section there and cleaned up the pages
a bit as well as making them more netscape friendly.
Next month we should be having some more tech stuff.
Cheers
John
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http://Mstation.org
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:05 CST
From: "glbevan" <glbevan@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: PasTmon-0.1.6 Response Time Monitor Released
PasTmon-0.1.6 (Beta) has been released at http://www.pastmon.org.
PasTmon is an OpenSource project, licensed under the GPL, to provide
passive network application response time monitoring capability.
As packaged, PasTmon can monitor http, telnet, rlogin and rsh protocols. It is
intended to extend this to many more common network protocols.
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:05 CST
From: Jason Nunn <jsno@arafura.net.au>
Subject: Clobberd 4.17 released
Clobberd 4.17
Clobberd is a daemon that runs on a single host, and monitors user
activity and network interface activity.
- For user monitoring, clobberd monitors the utmp file (typically
/var/run/utmp), monitors their time online, what network interfaces
they are using (ie PPP), and how much network traffic they are
creating. It monitors all this information, and regulates them
according to a set of restrictions.
- For network interface monitoring, it will simply monitor the amount of
traffic, and the time it is active. no regulation is done.
Users are able to view their stats via a web page, and a remote
maintenance facility allows you to maintain user data from anywhere on
your network.
Availability-
http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au/rel/unix_projects/clobberd-4.17.tar.bz2
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Jason Nunn- Electronics Technician / Unix(Linux) Specialist
Arafura Connect & Arafura Internet Services - 1300 137 363
Email: jsno@arafura.net.au, Mobile: 0418 813426, Fax: 08 89412278
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:10 CST
From: William Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net>
Subject: LOCAL: [Davis, CA] Sep. 17 LUG meeting: "Netfilter", plus "screen"
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), will be holding a meeting on:
Monday
September 17, 2001
6:30pm - 9:30pm
The meeting will be held at:
Z-World, Inc.
2900 Spafford Street
Davis, CA 95616
The topic will be:
Netfilter
presented by Jan Wynholds
Netfilter is a powerful suite of applications built to replace the
older firewall administration suite, "ipchains."
NAT, packet filtering, masquerading, and forwarding will be discussed.
Linux Kernel modules, userland programs, and hand-tailored scripts will
be discussed as well. Come with the desire to fill your electronic
'moat' with filtering 'crocodiles'.
Also, a mini-presentation will be made:
screen
presented by Gabriel Rosa
"screen" is a screen manager that multiplexes a physical terminal
between several processes. Each virtual terminal provides the
functions of a DEC VT100 terminal (and more), a scrollback history,
and you can cut and paste between terminals.
For details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/zworld/
LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the Linux Operating System,
and which holds meetings twice a month in Davis, CA.
Meetings are always free, and open to the public.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
-bill!
root@lugod.org
http://www.lugod.org/
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:10 CST
From: Chris Lowth <chris@lowth.com>
Reply-To: chris@lowth.com
Subject: protector - 1.00.2 -- GPLed e-mail virus protection
Hi
Update 3 of protector 1.00 has been released for RedHat GNU-Linux versions
6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1 systems, and as an "alpha" testing release for Sun
Solaris.
This update of the protector software ..
- Fixes an abnormal termination issue triggered when processing mails
generated by StarOffice and the LinuxKernel mailing list.
- Provides a preliminary Sun Solaris version.
- Simplifies the generation of the proto.h header file during the build
process.
Version 1.01 is also now available as a development beta release, for testing
and documentation. This reworked protector release handles MS office and
other document formats more intellegently - including the checking of
embedded objects but is currently still under development..
For information and download of both versions, visit:
http://protector.sourceforge.net/
Protector checks incoming e-mail messages for attachments that could contain
viruses, worms etc - and replaces the offending attachments with standard
warning messages before being passed to "procmail" for local delivery. The
original "dangerous" attachment is saved in a directory that only the root
user can access.
Protector is NOT a virus scanner in the traditional sense: It does NOT scan
attachments for virus signatures, but blocks attachments that could contain
viruses. So *.exe, *.vba etc attachments don't get through. This means that
you don't have to keep protector up to date to stay protected against the
growing tide of new viruses and worms.
Protector does not work by blocking listed types, but by blocking ALL BUT the
listed types. For details of the attachment types "allowed through", please
refer to the web site.
The logic employed by protector to determine the file types contained in
attachments is based on a modified version of the "file" command, and a
number of type-specific validation programs - it does not rely on the actual
name of the file, or the "content-type" declared in the attachment header. It
also looks inside ZIP, TAR and other archive formats, and checks the files
contained in them.
Some types of files are allowed through only under certain conditions. The
main example being that MS Word documents are blocked if they contain ANY
macros, but allowed through otherwise.
It isn't perfect yet, but it's a start. Assistance in developing the checking
logic for new file types is invited.
Chris
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:11 CST
From: josh.rogers@getlinuxonline.com (Josh Rogers)
Subject: Newbie command reference
GetLinuxOnline.Com has begun a new OMP(Open Manual Project) that is
detailing and listing the most commonly used commands that a newbie
will use. Please come and contribute, and check out the current
progress. Also if you have any additions to the command reference
email me or post them to the message board! Thanks!
http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/general/command/cmdref.htm
Aragorn
Admin of GetLinuxOnline.Com
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:12 CST
From: Paul Hughett <hughett@mercur.uphs.upenn.edu>
Subject: BBLimage 0.64 - Toolkit for volume image processing
The source distribution kit for BBLimage version 0.64 is now available
from
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/publications_downloads/downloads/software.shtml
BBLimage is a collection of tools for processing volume images,
especially medical images; it includes Pyvox, a Python extension
for large multi-dimensional arrays.
Features added in release 0.64 include: new Python libraries for
optimization and image registration using the mutual information,
least squares, or correlation metrics; sample programs for brain
masking and image registration; automatic uncompression of compressed
image files; arbitrary moments of a product of images; a linear system
solver; and vector dot product and weighted norms of images.
BBLimage is currently available as an alpha release under an open-
source license and is written in ANSI C and designed to be easily
portable to any Unix or Posix-compatible platform. Some programs also
require the X Window System.
NOTE: Alas, the current version has only works on RedHat Linux. We
are still digesting some recent major improvements and portability has
not quite caught up yet. We *do* intend to fix this.
Paul Hughett
================================================================
Paul Hughett, Ph.D. Research Associate
Brain Behavior Laboratory
10th floor Gates Building
Hospital of the University (215) 662-6095 (voice)
of Pennsylvania (215) 662-7903 (fax)
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia PA 19104 hughett@bbl.med.upenn.edu
A rose by any other name confuses the issue.
-Patrick E. Raume
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:11 CST
From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux box 1Ghz for $499
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:10 CST
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: man_db 2.3.20 released
man_db: The on-line manual database
===================================
I've released man_db version 2.3.20.
Description
===========
man_db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other
utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim. The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
troff) to format and display the manual pages.
About this release
==================
This is primarily a bug-fix release, with some improvements in national
language support. (In particular, it fixes a bug in 2.3.19 that made man
unusable in many locales.) It also features more careful handling of
temporary files, correct escaping of all arguments passed to the shell,
and better tolerance of database corruption.
With recent versions of groff, man now supports viewing HTML versions of
man pages, implementing the BROWSER specification as described at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/.
For full details of these and of the other improvements in this release,
please see the files docs/NEWS and docs/ChangeLog in the source
distribution.
http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/man-db/man_db-2.3.20.tar.gz
Cheers,
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:28 CST
From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Mailing List on Unicode / UTF-8
Work towards making the GNU/Linux platform fully ready for the use of Unicode
(in the form of the ASCII-compatible UTF-8 encoding) is well on its way.
The hope is that UTF-8 can soon replace the current jungle of different
and restrictive national character encodings used under Linux.
What happened so far:
- Starting with glibc 2.2, UTF-8 locales and ISO C multi-byte I/O
functions are now fully supported by the Linux C library.
In addition, a very powerful character encoding converter library
function and command (iconv) is now part of the standard
Linux API, such that application developers do not have to
reinvent this function again and again.
- Starting with XFree86 4, the xterm terminal emulator supports
UTF-8 and ISO 10646-1 (Unicode) versions of the classic X fonts
are available.
- The soon to be released vim 6.0 is just one example of the many now
available fully UTF-8 ready text editors.
- Many scripting languages (e.g., TCL, Perl, Python) have been
revised significantly to switch their internal character
processing completely to Unicode.
- many smaller GNU tools packages have been revised over the past two
years to ensure proper operation under UTF-8 locales.
UTF-8 is not primarily about internationalization!
Even for users of the English language, UTF-8 will be a significant
enrichment of the Linux experience. It will finally allow easy
use of the wide range of typographic and scientific symbols common
in English word processing documents and web pages in any form of
plain text everywhere.
If you are maintaining Linux application software, please make sure
you are knowledgeable in topics like UTF-8, ISO 10646, Unicode and
then test your package under a UTF-8 locale with UTF-8 text,
UTF-8 filenames, etc.
If you haven't done so already, upgrade to a glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.X
based distribution now! These versions represent a significant leap
forward in terms of character set support.
The best place to ask questions is to join the linux-utf8 mailing list
by sending the message body line
subscribe linux-utf8
to
majordomo@nl.linux.org
Lots of background information and links for both beginners and expert
developers is on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
Markus
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Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:29 CST
From: akubird@excite.com (Aku Bird)
Subject: LUG on the Gold Coast in Australia?
I am wondering if there exists a LUG on the Gold Coast of Australia. I
heard there was one at Bond University but that one doesn't appear to
be active.
Does anyone have any information they can provide?
Thanks
Aku
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:28 CST
From: Friedel Hacker <fh@ines.de>
Subject: GPIB (IEEE-488.2) supports Kernel 2.4x
A GPIB driver which supports kernel 2.4x is available at
http://www.inesinc.com/linux.htm
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:47 CST
From: Telnet from Dev350 <dev350@YAST_ASK>
Subject: KSnuffle-2.2 released
Thanks!
==========[snip]========
KSnuffle, the KDE network packet sniffer, is now available for download
from:
ftp://195.92.31.34/ksnuffle-2.2/ksnuffle-2.2.tgz
This version has been built 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 2.1 is a work-around for the forthcoming KDE
change whereby setuid programs will not be run.
Please note that if the remote sniffer interface is not compatible with
2.0 and earlier versions. If you use remote sniffers, then you will need to
reinstall the rsnuffle daemon.
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
=====[The Actual Announcement]========================================
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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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:44:55 CST
From: Vadim Zaliva <lord@crocodile.org>
Subject: linksys2syslog
'linksys2syslog' is small utility to catch SNMP traps sent by Linksys
EtherFast Cable/DSL Router (model BEFSR11) and writes them to unix syslog.
It is release under GPL.
Home page:
http://www.crocodile.org/software.html
Direct download link:
ftp://ftp.crocodile.org/pub/linksys2syslog-1.0.tar.gz
Vadim
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