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Linux-Announce Digest #22, Volume #4 Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
KSnuffle-2.2 released (Falko Ziemann)
KSnuffle-2.2 released (Falko Ziemann)
ASPSeek 1.2.5 released (Kir Kolyshkin)
cgipaf 1.0rc2 (staf wagemakers)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M. Foster)
Libmtrwe 0.0.2 multithreaded library (Giuseppe Corbelli)
mnoGoSearch 3.2.0 released ("dima")
Guikachu 0.10: "The Mamimi I never had" -- GNOME resource editor (ERDI Gergo)
LessTif Release 0.93.12 is out (Danny Backx)
[Announce] New cryptoapi RPM packages for Mandrake 8.1 (Michel Bouissou)
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:07:45 CST
From: Falko Ziemann <falko@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: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:07:53 CST
From: Falko Ziemann <falko@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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From: kir@asplinux.ru (Kir Kolyshkin)
Subject: ASPSeek 1.2.5 released
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:07:53 CST
We are happy to announce most long-awaited release of ASPSeek
since 0.9.9. Delay in releasing 1.2.5 was caused by several
consecutive reasons, including desire to finish man pages,
my illness and british group Depeche Mode visit to Russia :)
This release adds some nifty features, as well as bugfixes.
NEW FEATURES:
* UtfStorage parameter has been implemented, see etc/aspseek.conf-dist and
etc/searchd.conf-dist for details
This is a new storage mode, or, strictly speaking, an option
to UNICODE storage mode. In this mode, called UTFStorage, the
wordurl[1].word contents is not in plain 2-byte unicode, but
in UFT-8 charset.
>From www.utf8.org:
> UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number
> of 1 to 6 octets, where the number of octets depends on the
> integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an
> efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use US-ASCII
> characters because it represents each character in the range
> U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet.
So, if most of the words indexed are from ASCII, you will have
twice smaller database size, smaller memory consumption by the
ASPSeek and increase in indexing/searching speed.
If you want to switch to UFT, a converter from "old" unicode
to utf (index -b) can be used.
* Added man pages: aspseek(7), aspseek.conf(5), s.cgi(1), s.htm(5), searchd(1),
searchd.conf(5) and removed some files from doc/ subdirectory
For new users, this will be the most visible change. Now ASPSeek have a full set
of man pages, everything is written and checked carefully. You can see
these pages in many different formats (HTML, txt, PostScript, PDF) at
http://www.aspseek.org/manual.html. The only page missing in index(1),
hope it will be ready for the next release; if anybody got the time
to help finishing it, please contact me.
* Significantly reduced memory required for multibyte dictionaries in both
"searchd" and "index"
If you use multibyte dictionaries (like one for chinese provided in tarball),
you will notice that in 1.2.5 it requires much less memory than before due to
changing of its internal representation.
* Added -R switch to "searchd" for auto-restarting in case of SEGV
Now you can run searchd -DR and have nonstop searchd. Well, it will
rarely crash, but then auto-restart will occur.
* Added MaxDocsAtOnce parameter (see etc/aspseek.conf-dist for details)
Old index behaviour in case of indexing multiple sites was retrieve one
document from site, then switch to another site. This is not very optimal
in case you have very many different sites to index, because word, href
and dns caches are believed to suffer more in this case.So, option
MaxDocsAtOnce was added to aspseek.conf, and it should improve the speed
of indexing if you have many many sites.
* Added field "urlword.origin" to crc index in case fast clones are enabled
This was a mistake that the field was not included in the index; so, new version
should do clone lookup a little faster
* Added $$ processing to templates code
* Added ASPSEEK_TEMPLATE environment variable processing to "s.cgi"
* Removed OnlineGeo parameter from aspseek.conf (as it does not work)
* Rewrote aspseek-mysql-postinstall to be more verbose
* Changed calls to bzero() to memset() for better portability
* Added langmap file for German language
Thanks goes to Andre Pfeiler <nail@ndo.ath.cx> for langmap file contributed.
BUGS FIXED:
* Fixed rare memleak in searchd
* Fixed searchd coredump under FreeBSD
* Fixed loading of oracle8 driver
* Fixed searchd codedumps caused by searching some phrases or word lists
* Fixed searchd coredumps caused by very high value of "np" parameter
* Fixed default HTTPS port number
* Minor fix when HTTPS support is not compiled in
* Fixed several bugs related to robots.txt processing
* Added non-absolute URL support and whitespace stripping to redirect handling
in "index"
* Added whitespace stripping from HREF
* Redirect URI is not lowercased now
Last 6 items from the above list was submitted by Matt Sullivan
<matt@sullivan.gen.gz>. This is a bunch of fixes, so I have removed
Matt's name from THANKS file and added him to AUTHORS, under
"Major Contributors". Thanks for your work, Matt, and hope to see
more patches from you!
Also I would like to say thanks to John Capo <jc@irbs.com> who
found one ASPSeek problem on FreeBSD, and posted a solution.
Chances of ASPSeek working on FreeBSD is much higher now, when
we fixed some small but nasty bugs in searchd.
Download sources from www.aspseek.org. Binary packages will be
available in the next few days.
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From: staf wagemakers <stafwag@f2s.com>
Subject: cgipaf 1.0rc2
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:07:53 CST
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users
to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their
current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail
configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to
run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is
changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory.
A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID
can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that
are allowed to use cgipaf.
cgipaf is available at http://www.stafwag.f2s.com/cgipaf
REQUIREMENTS
+ a Un*x server (only tested with Debian gnu/Linux woody & potato and
solaris 8)
+ a mailserver that uses procmail
+ webserver
+ gcc, ndbm or gdbm
WHAT IS NEW
Syslog messages, and a fix for configure on non-PAM systems.
--
Staf Wagemakers
email : stafwag@f2s.com
homepage : http://www.stafwag.f2s.com
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (Paul M. Foster)
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:04 CST
*************************************
* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
BRANDON **************************************************
4 October 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
6 October 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#npr for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
10 October 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#tampa for directions.
BRANDON II ***********************************************
18 October 19:00-21:00 Brandon
(third Thursday of each month)
Computer Advantage Store
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#BrandonII for directions.
SARASOTA *************************************************
23 October 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
J.M Stewart Corp
2201 Cantu Court
Suite 218
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#sarasota for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
27 October 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings#dunedin for directions.
***********************************************************
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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From: Giuseppe Corbelli <cowo@lugbs.linux.it>
Subject: Libmtrwe 0.0.2 multithreaded library
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:04 CST
Hi all
v0.0.2 of Libmtrwe is now available. It solves the producer/consumer
problem using a multithreaded approach (POSIX Threads), with 4 buffering
schemes and support for intermediate encoding threads (up to 3).
V0.0.2 adds asynchronous signal support, besides the standard
bugfixing/refactoring. Complete documentation and examples included.
Developed and tested under Linux 2.4.
GPL licence
Download from http://cowo.mascanc.net
--
Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli ~\/~ My software: http://cowo.mascanc.net
-<! WINDOWS: l'unico sistema che puo' inchiodarsi tra un crash e l'altro !>-
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From: "dima" <dimych@pisem.net>
Subject: mnoGoSearch 3.2.0 released
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:12 CST
The new release of mnoGoSearch Open Source search engine software 3.2.0 is
available from mnoGoSearch website at http://mnogosearch.org/ .
Formerly known as UDMSearch, the search engine is designed for intranet and
web servers. The new version includes numerous improvements and new
features, including support for virtually every character set, support for
synonyms fuzzy search, and many others ( details here:
http://mnogosearch.org/history.html ).
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: Guikachu 0.10: "The Mamimi I never had" -- GNOME resource editor
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:12 CST
Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
A new release of Guikachu is available.
About Guikachu
==============
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.
Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
Features
========
* Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H)
* String resources
* Dialog resources
* Menu resources
* Form resources
* Per-application resources (e.g. version number, icon)
* Form editor (with support for every widget but Table and Gadget)
with graphical drag & drop capability to make designing forms more
easier and faster
* Native font support in the form editor for more precise
preview
* XSLT style sheets to generate RCP files from Guikachu
documents
About this release
==================
Both small UI improvements, the new Text Field widget, and internal
fixes are included in this new release, that hopefully brings Guikachu
back on the track of frequent releases.
New features:
* New supported widget: Text fields
* Played around with some widget renderers, so they are
closer (in some cases, 100% close) to the real PalmOS
displays
* Widget icons are now displayed in the form editor's widget
tree, and its selection is synchronized with the preview's
selection
* The selected widget in the form editor is indicated by a
bounding box
* Sticky palette selection: hold Control while clicking on a
palette button to make it pressed until another palette
button is selected
* Texts are properly clipped for undersized widgets
* guikachu2rcp safety fixes
* The wonderful Guikachu icon is now displayed in the launcher
icons
Guikachu uses GTK-- and GNOME-- for its user interface. File I/O is
implemented with the libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via
libglade. You will need the versions of these packages available in
the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the exception of GNOME-- which you will
need to upgrade to version 1.2.0)
To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also need PilRC
(part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files produced by
Guikachu.
Beware of bugémons!
Cactus
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From: Danny Backx <danny.backx@skynet.be>
Subject: LessTif Release 0.93.12 is out
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:19 CST
The LessTif Core Team is pleased to announce
Release 0.93.12
of the LessTif library!
This is a test release, using these auto* tools :
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
automake (GNU automake) 1.5
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4 (1.920 2001/04/24 23:26:18)
We've been working on the 2.x compatiblity of our libraries.
In addition we addressed some remaining problems when building
and installing LessTif.
About LessTif:
LessTif is a "free" (LGPL'd) implementation of the OSF/Motif standard
GUI toolkit for X11. LessTif aims to be source compatible with the
OSF/Motif versions 1.2 and 2.1.
We're almost done with the 1.2 part, but we still lack some substantial
parts of the 2.1 functionality. (Actually most 2.x applications do already
build, but may not work properly yet.)
So at this point, all Motif 1.2 apps compile out of the box with LessTif!
Some run-time problems however may still exist. The LessTif Core team is
interested in hearing about Motif applications which don't work with LessTif.
Bug reports are welcome; patches are even more welcome!
More information, source code, and binaries for several platforms
are available at:
http://www.lesstif.org
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lesstif
The LessTif Core Team
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From: Michel Bouissou <michel@bouissou.net>
Subject: [Announce] New cryptoapi RPM packages for Mandrake 8.1
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:08:27 CST
Hello,
I have compiled ready-for-use RPM packages for Linux cryptoapi,for
Linux-Mandrake 8.1
These packages bring cryptoapi support to Linux, for on-the-fly encrypted
filesystems, a feature comparable to what tools like Scramdisk or PGPDisk
do on other proprietary OSes.
These packages come in 2 flavours:
- 1 "light" installation consisting of 3 small RPMS for losetup, mount, and
cryptoapi-standalone, which can be installed without touching the kernel on
a Vanilla Mandrake 8.1
- 1 "complete" installation consisting of RPMs for losetup, mount, and
cryptoapi-ivmode, plus a complete series of kernel 2.4.8-26 packages,
patched and rebuilt to allow iv-mode-sector support for loopback encrypted
filesystems.
The first set of packages is light to download and install, but encrypted
volume created with it may not be portable from one device to another.
The 2nd set of packages is more complete, and allows encrypted volumes to
be portable, but it is much bigger to download and a little more complex to
install.
These packages are experimental and non-official, they are not supported by
Mandrakesoft.
These packages were made on a Mandrake 8.1rc1 system and are fully
compatable with it. They should be as well compatable with the official
Mandrake 8.1 upcoming release.
They may also be compatable with recent RedHats, but this is yet untested.
The documentation file describing these packages in detail is available at:
ftp.i-quake.com/pub/crypto/linux/cryptoapi/mandrake-unofficial/8.1/RPMS/
cryptoapi-2.4.7.0-2.4.8_26.README.txt
******************************************************************************
The cryptoapi RPMs and related packages are available from:
ftp.i-quake.com/pub/crypto/linux/cryptoapi/mandrake-unofficial/8.1/
******************************************************************************
If you wish to mirror these packages on other FTP sites, please feel free
to do so.
There is no "home" web page related to this RPM build.
Please refer to the Sourceforge Cryptoapi page at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptoapi/
******************************************************************************
Your feedback and comments are welcome.
--
Michel Bouissou - OpenPGP DH/DSS ID 0x5C2BEE8F
michel@bouissou.net
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