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Linux-Announce Digest #75
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Linux-Announce Digest #75, Volume #4 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
first release: pt-0.1.0 - a printing tool for CUPS (gs)
The CREC-LUG announcement (sood aaditya)
Ann: Rave Reports BE for Linux Early Experience Program (Greg Grothe)
Herbrip-0.4.0 released (phil hunt)
Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 coming March (William Kendrick)
sysstat-4.0.3 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
cgipaf 1.0rc5 (staf wagemakers)
New website for Linux Applications: http://linux.bankhacker.com/linux.phtml (webmaster@bankhacker.com)
Announce: Open Motif 2.2 - Major Upgrade (Mark Hatch)
NEW APPLICATION: RETCHMAIL v0.1 (Patrick Patterson)
NEW RELEASE: WvDial 1.50 (Patrick Patterson)
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From: gs_100@gmx.de (gs)
Subject: first release: pt-0.1.0 - a printing tool for CUPS
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:40:28 CST
PT is an easy-to-use, fast, and configurable printing tool for viewing
and managing print jobs of the CUPS Common UNIX Printing System. You
can delete, hold, and release print jobs and move them to another
printer.
Source download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pt-printing/
License: GNU GPL
requires GTK+ >= 1.2.10, CUPS >= 1.1.10
Trademark Note:
The Common UNIX Printing System, CUPS, and the CUPS logo are the
trademark
property of Easy Software Products.
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:39:05 CST
From: sood aaditya <alpha@tux.reccal.ernet.in>
Subject: The CREC-LUG announcement
Reply-To: sood aaditya <ec98310@matrix.reccal.ernet.in>
This is an announcement about a new LUG in CREC, Kerela, India.
We run a LUG in CREC (Calicut Regional Engineering College, Kerela,
India) called CREC-LUG. Although there have been Linux users in the
college since about 1995, paradoxically the LUG was founded in Nov 2001!
That partly explains why we haven't had any meetings yet, the other
reason being the exams :-/.
The DNS to our server (called tux.reccal.ernet.in) is shaky and slow
(almost like the whole ERNET), so the site better be accessed at the IP
address. Mail however would come through.
Lug Name : CREC-LUG
Co-ordinator : aaditya sood <ec98310 at matrix.reccal.ernet.in>
Mailing List Url: http://202.41.105.20/mailman/listinfo/lug
Mailing List Subscribe : <lug-request at tux.reccal.ernet.in> or from the Mailing list Url
Mailing List Archives : http://202.41.105.20/pipermail/lug
Lug Website : http://202.41.105.20/
First Meeting : Sometime in Jan 2002
Local Resources : A mailing list+website+~150 people:)
So any of the alumni of the college, anyone near Calicut (or anyone
at all:)) is invited to join. Just send a mail to me for more info.
Happy hacking!
--
sood aaditya
MIPS:
Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
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From: ggrothe@nevrona.com (Greg Grothe)
Subject: Ann: Rave Reports BE for Linux Early Experience Program
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:40:28 CST
Nevrona Designs is proud to announce the Rave Reports BE for Linux
Early Experience Program (EEP) for use with the Kylix development
tool. We are ready to unveil our acclaimed reporting tool in Borland's
Kylix programming environment. To get the details on how to
participate in the Early Experience Program, visit
<http://www.nevrona.com/rave/ravelinux.html>.
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From: philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt)
Subject: Herbrip-0.4.0 released
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:39:21 CST
I have just released version 0.4.0 of Herbrip, an email encryption
system with these features:
* uses strong public-key and symmetric-key encryption
* outgoing emails are automatically encrypted, and incoming
emails automatically decrypted -- no human effort needed
* your public key is automatically sent to all correspondents
* your correspondents' public keys are automatically stored
by Herbrip, so you don't have to manually exchange or manage
keys
* email attachments are automatically encrypted
* headers that might help an adversary, such as the Subject:
line, are automatically encrypted
* in fact, once set up, Herbrip does everything automatically
Herbrip is part of my Herbivore initiative to encourage more
people to use encrypted email. Herbrip is a command-line
implementation of the Herbivore protocol (the name stands for
"Herbivore Reference Implementation in Python").
Herbrip contains a working encryption engine, and ways of
integrating it into a Unix email system (MUAs and MTAs). Once
set up, it should be transparent in normal operation. Herbrip
is pre-alpha software; so, while it works, I don't particularly
recommend it for intensive use yet.
Herbrip was developed under Linux, but should work with any
Unix-like system.
The main change in Version 0.4.0 is the addition of "hooks" so
it can automatically read and process incoming and outgoing
email. Herbrip is now ready to connect up to your existing email
client and MTA.
Herbrip is available from:
<http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/herbivore/herbrip.html>
The Herbivore home page is at:
<http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/herbivore/intro.html>
Herbrip is licenced under the GNU GPL.
--
===== Philip Hunt ===== philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk =====
One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie.
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 coming March
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:40:36 CST
LinuxDevices.com reports that the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux/Java-based
PDA will be available to the public in March, for a list price of $549 USD.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6655019514.html
Specifications:
http://www.sharp-usa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,699,00.html
Review:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2134869242.html
Enjoy!
-bill!
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
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From: Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-4.0.3 - System performance tools for Linux
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:41:04 CST
Hi everybody,
This is to announce that sysstat release 4.0.3 is available on ibiblio's
Linux archive site (formerly known as Metalab):
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/
93kB sysstat-4.0.3.tar.gz
95kB sysstat-4.0.3-1.src.rpm
75kB sysstat-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
for Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
sysstat 4.0.3 is a *stable* version, which is fully compatible with
Linux 2.4 kernels.
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Changes vs 4.0.2 are:
2002/01/27: Version 4.0.3
* iostat now displays statistics in kB/s when option -x is used.
* Configuration script updated.
* sar and iostat manual pages updated.
* umask also set in sa1 shell script.
* Various sanity checks added.
* Fixed potential segmentation faults that could happen with some
locales.
* KB (standing for kilobytes) replaced with kB in various places.
* NLS updated: Italian translation added.
--
Sébastien Godard <sebastien dot godard at wanadoo dot fr>
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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From: staf wagemakers <stafwag@yahoo.com>
Subject: cgipaf 1.0rc5
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:41:07 CST
cgipaf 1.0rc5
"cgipaf" allows users to change their un*x Password, Autoreply and mail
Forwarding by a web interface.
cgipaf is available at http://stafwag.home7.dk3.com/cgipaf/index.php
WHAT IS NEW
+ cracklib support
+ new pam conversation function to support all common pam messages
( password unchanged, cracklib, minimum password length etc )
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
OVERVIEW
cgipaf is a combination of three cgi programs:
passwd.cgi: allow users to update their password
viewmailcfg.cgi: allow users to view their current mail configuration.
mailcfg.cgi: update the mail configuration
All programs use PAM for user authentication, systems without PAM are only
supported if they use the standard password file location (/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow) and the standard crypt function to encrypt the passwords.
If a password is changed it is possible to run a script to update SAMBA
passwords, NIS configuration, etc.
The mail configuration is done by procmail, mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc
in the user's home directory. If autoreply is enabled the autoreply message is
stored in ~/vacations.txt. When a user enables mail forwarding the user can
choose to keep the messages.
For user authentication viewmailcfg.cgi creates a cookie, this cookie is
stored in the accessdb. mailcfg.cgi reads the cookie out the accessdb and
compares it with the cookie send by the users browser. Users 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 uid's that are allowed to use cgipaf.
You can specify html files with a few PHP extensions for the login screen and
error messages. It's possible to use a redirect for the error messages,
instead of plain html files.
regards,
--
staf wagemakers
email: stafwag@yahoo.com
homepage: http://stafwag.home7.dk3.com/
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From: webmaster@bankhacker.com
Subject: New website for Linux Applications: http://linux.bankhacker.com/linux.phtml
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:41:05 CST
Reply-To: webmaster@bankhacker.com
New website for Linux Applications:
http://linux.bankhacker.com/linux.phtml
More than 300 GNU/Linux applications described in detail. The original is a
Spanish web, but in http://linux.bankhacker.com/linux.phtml you find it
translated into English.
Thanks
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°
Juan Ignacio Perez Sacristan
webmaster@bankhacker.com
Linux, Perl, PHP, MySQL ... solutions.
http://www.bankhacker.com/
Zaragoza, Spain
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°
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From: Mark Hatch <mhatch@ics.com>
Subject: Announce: Open Motif 2.2 - Major Upgrade
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:41:42 CST
We've just posted binaries and source for Open Motif 2.2 to the
MotifZone! (www.motifzone.net)
Open Motif 2.2 is a major update to Motif that includes 10 new widgets
and universal tooltips (thanks to Rick Scott!). The new widgets include:
tabstacks, trees, validating data entry fields, etc.
An 18 month roadmap was also announced. This roadmap defines the
timetable and functionality for three additional releases that includes
support for anti-aliased fonts, improved imaging support (jpgs, pngs,
etc.) and canvases. (Remember that poll on the front page of the
MotifZone that is what drove this roadmap!)
Note that Motif is *not* being ignored as The Open Group and ICS are
working together to evenutally offer this update to Motif users on UNIX
workstations too! For more details, see the official press release at:
http://www.ics.com/forum/forum.php?forum_id=62
The MotifZone and ICS will also be providing free training on this new
release in a 6 city tour in the USA in March. The following cities are
included in the tour: Philadelphia, Washington DC, Houston, Denver, Los
Angeles, and Boston. Send email to seminars@ics.com for more info on
dates and registration.
Want more info? See:
http://www.motifzone.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=160
Regards,
Mark
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From: Patrick Patterson <ppatters@nit.ca>
Subject: NEW APPLICATION: RETCHMAIL v0.1
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:42:45 CST
Reply-To: ppatters@nit.ca
1. What is retchmail?
Eric Raymond's Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every
remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP,
KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even support IPv6 and
IPSEC.
Oh, you were asking about RETCHMAIL. Sorry.
Retchmail is the world's most stupidly fast POP3 retriever.
It is almost completely unlike fetchmail: retchmail lacks features, isn't
particularly robust (although it won't delete a message until sendmail says
it was delivered okay), has nearly no documentation, and is actually fast.
Thanks to Patrick Patterson's WvSSLStream, retchmail also supports
POP3-SSL, which is much more secure than the RPOP, APOP, KPOP and other
password obfuscation routines currently en vogue to hide your password. SSL
has the nice feature that not only is your password secure going across the
wire, but so is the rest of your mail.
2. Where can I get it?
http://open.nit.ca/retchmail/
3. What exactly do you mean by "stupidly" fast?
Well, retchmail was written because I was annoyed with waiting for my e-mail
to download. I have a pretty active email box (several, actually), and I
often have to retrieve my mail through a rather high-latency Internet
connection from whatever odd places I might be in at the time. Traditional
POP retriever programs were slowly driving me crazier.
Here are some reasons that retchmail seems to be and actually is faster than
any other mail retriever I know:
- - Retchmail downloads from multiple mailboxes simultaneously; if you have
several email accounts, like I do, you don't have to wait for one
download to finish before starting the next one. If you want, you can
deliver mail from each mailbox into a different local mailbox. If one
of your mail servers is slower than the others, it can download in the
background while your faster servers go faster.
- - Retchmail can be waiting for one message delivery to finish while it
starts the next one. Since mail delivery programs tend to be
ultra-paranoid and fsync() and run the disks a lot, you'd be surprised at
how much faster this can make things, without making them less safe.
- - Retchmail downloads smaller messages before larger ones, without
disturbing the message order too much. This means you can start reading
your small messages before the giant attachment has finished downloading.
However, retchmail only reorders messages when it's actually useful, so
your mailbox stays in mainly chronological order.
- - Special bonus feature: absolutely nowhere in retchmail's code is there an
arbitrary 3-second sleep(). Wow! What other mail retriever can say
that? (Hint: not fetchmail.)
4. That sounds fast, but not "stupidly" fast. Are you forgetting to tell me
something?
You caught me. The main reason retchmail is faster - often more than 5x
faster than fetchmail - is that it pipelines message retrievals. That means
it asks for several messages from the server at once, rather than requesting
a message, waiting for it to download, deleting it, waiting for the delete
request to be acknowledged, and requesting the next one. For a mailbox with
lots of short messages (the common case) the request-wait-request-wait style
of transaction is _hideously_ slow, because no messages are being sent (the
link is idle) in between the previous message being sent and the next
request being received.
If you do the math, you'll find that for the common case of a relatively
slow or overloaded Internet connection with relatively small messages,
_most_ of the time it takes to download your mailbox is actually spent
just waiting while no data is transferred.
Instead, retchmail requests multiple messages at once, so it always has
several messages "in flight" at once. For example, it requests messages 1
through 5, and the server starts sending those in order. When retchmail has
finished receiving message #1, it then requests message #6, and so on. The
mail server won't have finished sending message #5 by that time, so the
download part of the connection is _never_ idle after the transfer starts.
All that makes retchmail go REALLY fast. Almost everyone will find
retchmail to be at least 3x faster than most POP retrievers, and probably
more than 5x faster.
5. Is retchmail standards-compliant?
Quick answer: HA HA HA HA HA HA no.
Longer answer:
I've read the POP-3 RFC. As far as I can tell, nothing in there
says we can't do what we're doing. That said, I know perfectly well that
what we're doing is definitely NOT what the authors intended. So we're in
compliance with the letter, but not the spirit, of the standard.
Just to be extra clear about this: yes, it is morally wrong for us to have
written retchmail, and it is morally wrong for you to use it. But try it,
it's really fast!
6. Will the lack of standards-compliance cause problems?
Maybe, if your POP server is badly written. It wouldn't surprise me
terribly much if this were the case.
The most likely type of bug will be "failure to split packets" or "failure
to merge packets." Most network programming libraries (not WvStreams) make
it kind of hard to do simple, obvious things like reading a single line of
text, and most people writing network code tend to screw it up. Your POP
server is likely to screw up in one or both of two ways:
- - failure to split packets: if extra commands arrive while data is being
transferred, or two commands arrive at the same time, stupid POP servers
(since they only ever expect one command to be sent before they send a
response code) might ignore or give an error to the unexpected commands.
- - failure to merge packets: retchmail sends several commands at once, so
the data it produces might take more than a single network packet to
transmit. If this happens, the packets will probably be split in the
middle of a line, so that (say) "RETR 5" is at the end of packet #1,
and "6\r\n" is at the beginning of packet #2. Stupid POP servers
might not be able to merge those two requests.
The problem you're more likely to experience is the first one, since
retchmail mostly doesn't produce huge packets. However, your POP server is
probably more likely to actually _contain_ the second problem, since it's
harder to test against.
7. Do you support IMAP or any non-POP3 protocols?
No, although it wouldn't be very hard to add. Thanks to the handy-dandy (if
I do say so myself) WvStreams library, retchmail is only 800 lines, so it's
pretty easy to extend and understand. (Fetchmail is more than 20000 lines
- - 25 times bigger - but they didn't have the benefit of WvStreams or C++.)
In fact, IMAP properly supports pipelined requests, so it would even be
standards-compliant to do what retchmail does if we used IMAP.
If you want this feature, write it and submit a patch.
8. Why do you call the local MTA instead of implementing the entire SMTP
protocol inside retchmail? The fetchmail design notes said...
Because that's what the local MTA is for. If you don't want a "full" MTA,
you should still install a basic one so other packages will work. "sSMTP"
is a nice, simple, basic /usr/sbin/sendmail implementation that does exactly
what fetchmail's does, but other programs can use it too.
9. Okay, then, what do you think about "syntactic noise" in config files?
!@#*@!#(*#%^!%$@#';,!@#
10. Are you going to write a long-winded essay about the relationship
between this program and sociology?
I actually rather liked "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," and it doesn't have
serious latency problems, so I don't think there's any need to duplicate
that effort.
In fact, I'll just link to it here:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Eventually I _will_ write a long-winded essay about fixing latency problems.
11. Are you at least tracking the number of users of retchmail?
As far as I know, retchmail has exactly three users.
12. And you'll put that in your essay?
No.
13. Who's responsible for this madness?
First, Eric Raymond wrote fetchmail, which was really the inspiration for
retchmail. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca> wrote the first version of retchmail and
started this FAQ. When I say "I", I mean me, Avery.
Patrick Patterson <ppatters@nit.ca> added the SSL support and keeps track of
public releases, since Avery is too busy/lazy.
- --
Patrick Patterson
Open Source Ambassador
Net Integration Technologies
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From: Patrick Patterson <ppatters@nit.ca>
Subject: NEW RELEASE: WvDial 1.50
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:42:45 CST
Reply-To: ppatters@nit.ca
Net Integration Technologies is pleased to announce the latest version of the
easiest to use Internet Dialer program known.
That's right, we've finally updated WvDial.
Some of the new features in 1.50 are:
- You can now choose where the configuration files go. This means that the
wvdial.conf file no longer is stuck being a world readable file in /etc - if
you feel that you want more privacy, you can now put it in your home
directory or anywhere else that you feel is more secure.
- We've added the ability to set options on the command line, so WvDial is
now usable by those who dial in using SecureID or other One Time Password
Schemes (we're working on challenge response... that's still not there yet).
You can also override any of the standard settings for a "try this just this
once" flexibility.
The WvDial homepage is at:
http://open.nit.ca/wvdial
The new version can be found at:
http://open.nit.ca/download
(Please note the change in URL from previous versions.)
Thank you to everyone who has made suggestions, comments or sent patches.
--
Patrick Patterson
Open Source Ambassador
Network Integration Technologies
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