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Linux-Announce Digest #40
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Fri Nov 16 08:13:06 2001
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Linux-Announce Digest #40, Volume #4 Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
ASPSeek 1.2.6 released (Kir Kolyshkin)
SHAREWARE: pdfcrypt 2.0 (SANFACE Software)
ipgrab 0.9.7 released (Mike_Borella@3com.com)
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:30:15 CST
From: kir@asplinux.ru (Kir Kolyshkin)
Subject: ASPSeek 1.2.6 released
Hello,
A few minutes ago we have uploaded aspseek-1.2.6 sources
to SW sites. Find excerpts from NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES below,
download from http://www.aspseek.org/ as usual.
Binary RPMS will be available in a few days.
Enjoy,
Kir.
from NEWS:
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14 Nov 2001: v.1.2.6 (stable)
* Changed logs.txt format
* Implemented buddy like heap for storing of position vectors in "index"
for better memory usage
* Fixed improper clones processing in "index"
* Implemented buffered file to use instead of FILE* during inverted index
merging for faster processing
* Fixed closing of unnecessary pipe handles in resolver and parent "index"
processes
* Fixed coredumps in "searchd" which occured when "Cache" mode is on and
complex expressions are searched
* Added UrlBufferSize parameter to aspseek.conf
* URL IDs sorting is performed by STL sort function instead of "ORDER BY"
during subsets generation
* Changed output format of "index"
* MaxDocsAtOnce is ignored now for sites to which connection was failed
last time
* Fixed rare coredump in "searchd" if "site:" was used in query
* Reduced amount of stack used by "index" to optimize memory usage and
eliminate rare coredumps occured during citations merging
* Added MultipleDBConnections parameter to searchd.conf
* Time of SEGV in "searchd" is stored in dlog.log now
* Fixed not important memory leak in "index" which occured during ranks
calculation
* Added -X and -H flags to "index"
* SIGCHLD signals are caught and logged by "index"
* Fixed huge memory leak in "SetNewOrigin" function of "index" which
could occur only when index was run to re-index existing database
* Fixed rare coredump in "SetNewOrigin" function of "index"
* Event of breaking of read pipe in resolver process is logged now
* Exiting of resolver process is logged now
* Optimized performance of "searchd" by replacing of many small "read"
calls to less number of big "read" calls in CResult::GetUrls(CSiteInfo*)
* Fixed -P and -A flags in "index"
* Optimized memory usage by reallocating of URL content buffer which
was filled by more than 100000 bytes last time
* Removed MaxNetErrors parameter from aspseek.conf (as it is unused)
* Added description of DeltaBufferSize, UrlBufferSize, WordCacheSize,
HrefCacheSize, NextDocLimit, UtfStorage, MaxDocsAtOnce,
MultipleDBConnections parameters to man pages
* Added RELEASE-NOTES to the distribution
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from RELEASE-NOTES:
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v.1.2.6
In this version we have fixed numerous small and not-so-small bugs, as well
as added some improvements and new features. Here some changes are described
in details; for full list of changes see the NEWS file.
To summarize, this version should be more stable, as we have found the
reasons and fixed a few coredump cases, as well as healed some memory
leaks. Also, some tricks were incorporated to boost performance: buddy heap
is implemented for storing word position vectors in "index", replacing the
standard STL vector class; CBufferedFile is implemented and is used instead
of stdio during inverted index merging process (also known as "Saving
delta files").
Some other items from NEWS is explained here.
* Added MultipleDBConnections parameter to searchd.conf
Multiple DB connections feature is implemented in searchd. This improves
concurrency between searchd threads, especially in the case when some threads
do pattern search (which is slow), and other thread wants a simple search.
* Exiting of resolver process is logged now
* Event of breaking of read pipe in resolver process is logged now
* SIGCHLD signals are caught by "index"
We have some reports from users of 1.2.5 with complains about stuck of
index process. The problem seems to be in the resolver process. So, we have
added several facilities that can be helpful to nail down the bug.
* Added -X and -H flags to "index"
Use "index -X1" to check inverted index for URLs for which "urlword.deleted"
field is non-zero. Use "index -X2" to fix it by appending information about
deleted keys to the delta files. So if you want to remove records where
"urlword.deleted" is non-zero, run index -X2; index -D, and finally perform
SQL statements to delete unnecessary records.
"index -H" is used to recreate citation indexes and ranks file from
"urlwordsNN.hrefs" fields in case of citation index corruption.
* Fixed -P and -A flags in "index"
"index -P" is used to show "path" to given URL.
"index -A" is used to add or delete site to/from web space.
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From: sanface@sanface.com (SANFACE Software)
Subject: SHAREWARE: pdfcrypt 2.0
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:58:36 CST
What is pdfcrypt?
pdfcrypt is a very flexible and powerful program.
pdfcrypt allows you to encrypt a PDF (40 bits and 128 bits), set
permissions, add user and owner password.
For example you can encrypt a pdf without to allow to print it. The
button to print the file will be disabled in Acrobat Reader
application.
For example you can encrypt a pdf allowing the user to read it only if
he know the correct password
It's simple to use it like a batch application to set permissions to
every PDF in you archive
It's simple to use it like a pipe application.
It's simple to use it inside your cgis.
We distribute only executable versions (if you need ask us the
original PERL code, we'll evaluate your request).
What's new in this version
user and owner password
progress status bar and percentage
128 bit support
possibility to set the PDF output version
possibility to run in memory (without use temporary files)
possibility to set the directory for temporary files
Download it and test it!
http://www.sanface.com/pdfcrypt.html
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From: Mike_Borella@3com.com
Subject: ipgrab 0.9.7 released
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:58:52 CST
A new version of ipgrab is available at:
http://ipgrab.sourceforge.net
New protocols supported:
- NNTP
- RTCP
- TFTP
New tracefile format supported:
- Sun Snoop
Minor fixes
- -v option now works properly
- FTP control packets now decoded properly
- Fixed problem with minimal mode lumping discrete packets together
- Ran a test compile with gcc v3.0, fixed some warnings
- Added new config.sub and config.guess
- Fixed RTP support
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