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Linux-Announce Digest #52, Volume #4 Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
FW: motif course (Oran Kushnir)
help2man 1.25 - generate simple manual pages ("Brendan O'Dea")
SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated (Howard Holm)
Beta version of CodeSurfer for Linux (Kirk Macolini)
LAoE 0.4.03 (Olivier =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E4umann?=)
[UPDATED] OpenRADIUS v0.9.1 (Emile van Bergen)
[ANNOUNCE] SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.2 now available (Mark Goodwin)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
Son of shasm, osimpa ("Rick A. Hohensee")
Rel version 1.4.1 (John Conover)
Playstaion 2 Linux (Rashad Dawan)
Firewalling configuration tool ("Nigel Kukard")
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From: Oran Kushnir <orank@tecnomatix.com>
Subject: FW: motif course
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:22 CST
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I would like to find an advanced motif course,
Is there any where you know of that hold this kind of courses ?
Is there something you can recommend ?
Thank you,
ALL THE BEST,
Oran Kushnir
Phone: +972-9-9594713
E-mail: orank@tecnomatix.com <mailto:orank@tecnomatix.com>=20
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From: "Brendan O'Dea" <bod@debian.org>
Subject: help2man 1.25 - generate simple manual pages
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:36 CST
Overview
********
`help2man' is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages
from program output.
It is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include
a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that
document.
Given a program which produces resonably standard `--help' and
`--version' outputs, `help2man' will attempt to re-arrange that output
into something which resembles a manual page.
Availability
************
The current version is available from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/
News
****
* New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
footers to be specified.
* New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
which don't support the standard --help and --version.
--
Brendan O'Dea bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
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From: hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil (Howard Holm)
Subject: SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:37 CST
A new release of the LSM-based SELinux prototype has been put on the
SELinux web site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/>. This release is based
lsm-full-2001_12_10 patch against kernel 2.4.16. Many utilities have
been updated to newer versions to improve compatibility with Red Hat
7.2. Auditing has been revised for easier parsing and several
additional bugs were fixed.
Security-enhanced Linux incorporates a strong, flexible mandatory
access control architecture into the major subsystems of the Linux
kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of
information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This
allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security
mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that
can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. The SELinux web
site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> contains background information,
documentation, source code, and archives for the selinux mailing-list.
--
Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Secure Systems Research Office
National Security Agency
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From: kirk@grammatech.com (Kirk Macolini)
Subject: Beta version of CodeSurfer for Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:44 CST
A beta version of CodeSurfer for Linux has been released. You can download an
evaluation copy at http://www.grammatech.com/products/codesurfer/download.html
CodeSurfer is a new breed of maintenance, understanding, and
inspection tool based on advanced static analysis. CodeSurfer's
powerful program-analysis techniques precompute program properties
allowing you to analyze and understand source code quickly and
precisely. CodeSurfer provides access to a program's deep structure
— semantic properties and relationships discovered by global program
analyses — that conventional tools do not see.
CodeSurfer can help you understand indirect effects through pointers.
CodeSurfer performs pointer analysis so it knows which variables point
to which other variables and procedures. Most commercial tools are
blind to pointer relationships, leaving you to figure out their
complex effects. CodeSurfer does this for you, saving time and
improving accuracy.
CodeSurfer works on the deep structure of your code to help you find
exactly what you're looking for. CodeSurfer provides advanced
searching capabilities that take into account control flow, data flow,
and program structure to deliver precise query results. Traditional
text-based search tools provide too much information, leaving you to
manually search through the results for the information you need.
CodeSurfer can help you understand the far-reaching effects of
statements in your program. Statements in programs often have effects
in distant parts of a program that are not easily discovered.
CodeSurfer's powerful program dependence queries calculate these
effects for you automatically.
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From: Olivier =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E4umann?= <olivier.gaeumann@smarcom.ch>
Subject: LAoE 0.4.03
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:37 CST
java-based soundeditor LAoE 0.4.03 available now at www.oli4.ch/laoe
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From: Emile van Bergen <e-advies@evbergen.xs4all.nl>
Subject: [UPDATED] OpenRADIUS v0.9.1
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:45 CST
Hello,
I'm pleased to announce the release of OpenRADIUS version 0.9.1. You can
get it at http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/openradius-download.html.
The most important feature in this release is the LDAP module that was
added: it delivers a full RADIUS-to-LDAP gateway that supports
authentication using LDAP binds, arbitrary searches based on arbitrary
RADIUS attributes, and a fully configurable LDAP-to-RADIUS attribute
mapping.
>From the changelog at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/download/openradius-0.9.1/CHANGELOG:
- Added LDAP module.
- Added some informational messages during server startup, to
improve usefulness of '-d all', '-d misc -d recv' etc.; some
other logging cleanups.
- Prepended log lines with internal facility names.
- Fixed bug caused by not emptying a channel's receive queue
when its associated process dies. This caused the interface
that the channel was associated with, not to recover gracefully
from a subprocess restart.
- Added some radius attributes to 'constants.h' to root and put
it in the public domain, to facilitate module writing.
- Put the Logger module (bourne shell script) in public domain
as well.
- BSD/SysV compatibility fixes: Made uint32_t / u_int32_t dependent
on Make.conf setting; more Make.conf cleanups/fixes
- Added more documentation for all modules.
This release was tested on Debian v2.2r2, BSDI 4.0 and Solaris 7; all
built with GNU Make and GCC. It should work just as well on many other
platforms and compilers (GNU Make is still a requirement) though, so if
you are running something else, please try it out and report any
problems you may find.
Thanks,
Emile.
--
E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | e-advies@evbergen.xs4all.nl
tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/
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From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.2 now available
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:02 CST
SGI is pleased to announce the new version of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
open source (version 2.2.2-11) is now available for download from
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download
This release contains mostly bug fixes but also contains some new
metrics and PMDAs. A list of changes since the last open source
release (which was version 2.2.1) is in /usr/doc/pcp-2.2.2/CHANGELOG
after installation, or at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/latest.html
The PCP homepage is at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp and you can join
the PCP mailing list via http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/mail.html
PCP is an extensible system monitoring package with a client/server
architecture. It provides a distributed unifying abstraction for all
interesting performance statistics in /proc and assorted applications
(e.g. Apache). The PCP library APIs are robust and well documented,
supporting rapid deployment of new and diverse sources of performance
data and the development of sophisticated performance monitoring tools.
There are binary RPMs for ia32 and ia64, the source RPM and tar.gz files.
The source should also build and work for Linux-ppc, Linux-alpha and
most other Linux platforms.
SGI would like to thank those who contributed to this and earlier
releases, especially Michal Kara, Laurent Demailly, Alan Baily, Alexander
L. Belikoff, Brian Harvell, Eric Roman, Gilly <gilly@exanet.com>, Troy
Dawson, Thomas Graichen, Luc Stepniewski, Martin Knoblauch, Micah Altman,
the SGI PCP engineering team, and others.
Thanks
-- Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
SGI Engineering
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From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:02 CST
WHEN AND WHERE:
12 December 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 the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
!! Special meeting time this month only!!
18 December 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of this month)
Certification, Inc.
2033 Wood Street Suite 220
Sarasota, FL 34237
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
20 December 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
Across the street from Barnes & Noble, next to Target and Honey
Baked Hams. See the SLUG website w.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html)
for directions.
22 December 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
3 January 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center Brandon, FL
Take I-4 East to I-75 South. Go south on 75 to the second exit
(Hwy 60, Exit 53). Head left (east) under the overpass, and
make sure you're in the right lane. When you go to the
entrance for Brandon Town Center, you'll see Barnes & Noble
on your immediate right.
5 January 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
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentations: to be announced
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!)
FOLLOWING MEETINGS:
9 January 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
17 January 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
22 January 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
26 January 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
2 February 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
7 February 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
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From: "Rick A. Hohensee" <rickh@Capaccess.org>
Subject: Son of shasm, osimpa
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:10 CST
osimpa is a macro-assembler or "compembler" written entirely in GNU Bash.
With minor modifications it should also work with pdksh and zsh. It is a
superset of shasm, which was discussed on Slashdot. It currently supports
the Intel 80386 real and protected modes. No floats, etc.. The osimpa
script is currently 116k including a lot of per-instruction help prompt
texts. The "compembler" thing is about being as convenient as possible
without creating restrictions to low-level access. osimpa is vaguely
similar to, but still lower-level than, Randy Hyde's High Level Assembler.
This results in some degenerate imitations of high-level language features
that lose some generality but that win huge on bang-per-buck in terms of
implementation complexity.
osimpa emphasizes some of the same things as Forth, but without a Forth
(virtual) 2-stack-machine; a consistant simple syntax (no lexer), terse
but self-explanatory names, ease of extension, systemic simplicity, and
minimal external dependancies. Structured programming, object oriented
programming, functional programming and data typing are not directly
supported. Although not typed in the C sense, data is sized somewhat by a
cell concept. There's a lot of defaulting of things for the common case,
and cells default to 4 bytes. Composites that assemble more than one
instruction are provided for the 386 prefixed looping instructions,
execution arrays, host system calls, reentrant procedures, and a register
dump. Other conveniences resemble Forth ALLOT, C enum, C struct, Forth
VARIABLE, Forth CR, C printf, and some handy features the 386 doesn't have
like a 0 register. The "heap" word allows unallocated memory in the
storage image of the program. The "when" construct for conditional
branches and osimpa strand arrays are fairly unique. osimpa code doesn't
look very CPU-specific, and I believe it could be generalized to port
easily between most desktop one-stack CPUs.
osimpa in Bash is very slow, but very interactive otherwise, and the
produced code is as good as you are. Listed below is a playful little
Linux command in osimpa. The = A to B (Intel MOV ebx,eax) instruction is
gratuitous. Such a simple program as this didn't need any non-composite
instructions, so I just stuck one in to show that there is no syntactic
or semantic hurdle between composites and per-instruction assembly.
Similarly, ab assembles specific bytes without any conflict with more
complex actions. obverse and reverse are vt102 display directives
supported by the Linux console driver.
ELF
= A to B
Linux $write 0 $reverse 4
print hiya ; Linux $write 0 $obverse 5
print hiya # comment
print hiya
Linux $exit
L reverse
ab 0x1b `asciibyte [ 7 m`
L obverse
ab 0x1b `asciibyte [ 2 7 m`
text hiya <<!
Good morning Mister Felps. Your mission, should you choose to accept
it...
..
.
.
!
osimpa is at
ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim/osimpa.tgz
Rick Hohensee
rickh@capaccess.org
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen
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From: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
Subject: Rel version 1.4.1
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:03 CST
Reply-To: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
Rel is a suite of programs and tools that are useful for building
Internet search engines and enterprise wide full text information
retrieval systems.
The rel programs have a web site at http://www.johncon.com/nformatix/
>From the lsm:
Title: rel-1.4.1
Version: 1.4.1
Entered-date: December 10, 2001
Description: Rel is a suite of programs and
tools for building wide area full text
information retrieval systems over the
Internet. The search mechanisms are capable of
sorting documents by relevance to keyword
search criteria. Boolean operations (and, or,
not, and grouping operators,) on multiple
keywords are fully supported and the programs
are capable of phonetic keyword search. The
rel programs control the direction of search
across the Internet as determined by the
relevance of HTML documents found at a site.
Keywords: relevance searching full text information retrieval
Author: John Conover <john@email.johncon.com>
Maintained-by: Author
Primary-site: http://www.johncon.com/nformatix/
Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils/text/rel-1.4.1.tar.gz
Original-site: http://www.johncon.com/nformatix/
Platform: Linux, USG, BSD
Copying-policy: Can freely distribute, but cannot sell or include in a
commercial product without permission of author.
John
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John Conover, conover@email.rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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From: divine_rashad@yahoo.com (Rashad Dawan)
Subject: Playstaion 2 Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:02 CST
Register your interest here
This brief informal survey in no way commits Sony Computer
Entertainment to release a PS2 Linux kit in the US. Likewise, this
survey does not commit the user in any way to purchasing such a kit
should it become available. The purpose of the survey is just to gauge
a level of interest in a PS2 version of linux in the US:
http://www.ps2linux.scea.com/interest_form.shtml
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From: "Nigel Kukard" <nkukard@lbsd.net>
Subject: Firewalling configuration tool
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:31:22 CST
Just wondering if anyone would like to test out idms-firewall,
as far as i know its the first firewall configuration utility to support
traffic shaping, logging & dynamic rule reloading.
http://idms-firewall.lbsd.net
Let me know what you think!
Nigel
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