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Linux-Announce Digest #117
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Linux-Announce Digest #117, Volume #4 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
opennews.indianissues.org (Frederick Noronha)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
LPI Linux Certification Talk (Chuck Peters)
MIMEDefang 2.8 -- flexible mail scanner for virus/trojan protection ("David F. Skoll")
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users (Andrew M. Bishop)
ANNOUNCE: FilmDB 2002 Version 0.4 released (Detlev Offenbach)
ANN: SATSHELL (Alpha1) The easy way to create GUI shell scripts. (Adrian Davis)
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:55:26 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: opennews.indianissues.org
OpenNews is a forum for freedom. It aims to inform people all over the
world about the progress being made in the field of software and digital
freedom in India. OpenNews is actively looking for interesting and relevant
news submissions. Please submit your articles here.
http://opennews.indianissues.org/
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:55:33 CST
The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer
Association meets on the first thursday of evey month. The meeting is held
at the DMA office at 119 Valley St in Dayton at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and new users are always welcome.
For additional information contact:
Tony Snyder
snydert@dmapub.dma.org
937-275-7913
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From: cfp@netaxs.com (Chuck Peters)
Subject: LPI Linux Certification Talk
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:55:35 CST
Reply-To: cfp@netaxs.com
Jeffrey Dean will be speaking at the EPCC (Exton PC Council) Linux SIG,
http://linux.axs.org, Wednesday May 1st 7pm at the Chester County
Library in Exton. Jeffrey Dean is author of LPI Linux Certification
in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly.
Linux in the Real World
Linux geeks will happily chat for hours about all the things that
Linux can do, but what is often more valuable is to know what's
actually being done with it in the real world. Jeffrey Dean, from West
Chester, has written such a book. He has given us a broad but detailed
introduction to the Linux operating system that will be of interest to
both would be Linux administrators and new Linux users.
The Linux operating system has a well deserved reputation for being
reliable, secure and versatile. With its graphical user interface and
Office-like suite of applications, Linux is becoming the Operating
System (OS) of choice for IT managers as well as home users. Linux now
has two popular graphical user interfaces with GNOME and KDE. There
are also office applications for word processing, spreadsheets
presentations, graphics and Samba for integrated file and print
services with Windows-based networks. Linux is also a popular choice
for use with Apache, the worlds leading web server. In addition the OS
is becoming popular for mail servers, firewalls, authentication
services and more. Just about anything you want to do on a computer
can be done with Linux, with the added benefit of cost savings.
With usage of Linux on the rise, so too is the need for trained Linux
system administrators. In the beginning, Linux geeks were mostly self
taught but when the OS started becoming popular, Linux classes began
being taught in schools, universities and trade schools. There soon
became a need for some form of certification for administrators so
that employers and IT managers could make sure that they were hiring
well trained people with good technical skills.
Linux is now being deployed on a large scale by big companies. IBM is
investing a billion dollars in Linux this year alone. A few of the
other companies which use Linux, are Google (the search engine,)
Amazon.com, the US Postal Service, Toyota Motor Sales, Burlington Coat
Factory and Home Depot. All of them need skilled Linux administrators
to deploy and maintain their computers.
Linux is also finding it's way into the world of the desktop as more
and more applications are being offered to run on it. This makes more
jobs available in customer support.
While there is no substitute for experience, certification provides a
mechanism for testing and verifying technical skills. The leading
certification program for Linux administrators is the LPI (Linux
Professional Institute). People who wanted to become certified could
now take a course to learn Linux, or they could simply take the test
if they could pass the certification. To assist those who want to get
certified Jeffrey Dean has written LPI Linux Certification in a
Nutshell. The book, published by O'Reilly, is great as either a
textbook, or a self study guide with sample quizzes and tests.
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell tells you not only what Linux
can do, it tells you what Linux is being used for. The book provides a
strong overview of Linux to not only tell you what you need to know to
prepare for the test, but self tests to ascertain what areas you are
weak or strong on. Using this book, you need not buy a pile of system
administration books, this one book will tell you what you need to
know.
But the book is for more than just people who want to get certified in
Linux. Knowing what the OS can do gives you the ability to make the
most of Linux if you have chosen to use it. Being powerful and
versatile, Linux is capable of many tasks.
For more information on EPCC Linux SIG visit http://linux.axs.org and
more info on LPI visit http://www.lpi.org.
The LPI logo and words 'Linux Professional Institute' are trademarks
of the Linux Professional Institute, Inc. Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds.
We'll also have copies of LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell and
other O'Reilly goodies to raffle off.
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From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: MIMEDefang 2.8 -- flexible mail scanner for virus/trojan protection
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:56:10 CST
MIMEDefang is a GPL'd mail scanner which runs on Linux or UNIX systems.
It can manipulate mail in many ways, including removing Windows viruses,
replacing large attachments with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers,
restricting access to recipients to specified e-mail relays, and so on.
MIMEDefang uses Sendmail's "milter" API, and requires Sendmail 8.11 or
newer (8.12.3 recommended).
MIMEDefang is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
Major changes since 2.7:
* the filescan virus filter distinguishes between viruses and suspicious
files. See mimedefang-filter(5) for details.
* If you send the multiplexor an INT signal, it causes slaves to reread
the filter file. (Busy slaves continue and reread at the earliest safe
opportunity.) No need to restart Sendmail when you change your filter!
* An important security patch for MIME::tools is included in the
distribution. The configure script detects and warns about an
unpatched installation.
* Sample Windows-client filter made more conservative.
David F. Skoll
Roaring Penguin Software Inc. | http://www.roaringpenguin.com
GPG fingerprint: C523 771C 3710 0F54 B2D2 4B0D C6EF 6991 34AB 95BA
GPG public key: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/dskoll-key-2002.txt ID: 34AB95BA
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From: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk (Andrew M. Bishop)
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:56:32 CST
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.7b
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
===========
The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and
read them without having to remain connected.
Basic Features
- Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols.
- Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods.
- Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status.
- Highly configurable.
- Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated.
While Online
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.
- Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session.
- Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https).
- Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page.
- Control which pages cannot be accessed.
- Allow replacement of blocked pages.
- Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache.
- Requests compressed pages from web servers (compile time option).
While Offline
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
- Using normal browser to follow links.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.
Automated Download
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
- Understands various types of pages
- HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
- Options to fetch different classes of objects
- Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Option to not fetch webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
- To specified depth.
- On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
- Chosen from command line or from browser.
- Control over which links can be fetched recursively.
Convenience
- Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options.
- Options to modify HTML pages
- Remove scripts.
- Remove Java applets.
- Remove stylesheets.
- Remove shockwave flash animations.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Remove refresh tags.
- Remove links to pages that are in the DontGet list.
- Remove inline frames (iframes) that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace images that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Demoronise HTML character sets.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig, mnoGoSearch
(UdmSearch) or Namazu programs.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Allows CGI scripts
- Timeouts to stop proxy lockups
- DNS name lookups.
- Remote server connection.
- Data transfer.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client.
- Based on file size of fraction downloaded.
- Purging of pages from cache
- Based on URL matching.
- To keep the cache size below a specified limit.
- To keep the free disk space above a specified limit.
- Interactive or command line control.
- Compression of cached pages based on age.
- Provides compressed pages to web browser (compile time option).
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages requested last time offline.
- Pages fetched last time online.
- Pages monitored on a regular basis.
- Configurable indexes
- Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file.
- Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages.
- Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages.
Security
- Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication.
- Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it.
- Control over access to the proxy
- Defaults to local host access only.
- Host access configured by hostname or IP address.
- Optional proxy authentication for user level access control.
- Optional password control for proxy management functions.
- Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy.
Configuration
- All options controlled using a configuration file.
- Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file.
- User customisable error and information pages.
Changes
=======
Since version 2.7a:
Bug Fixes:
Ensure that only one argument is given to wwwoffle -o or -O. Some more version
2.7 documentation updates. Fix crash using 'wwwoffle -O|-o|-put|-post <URL>'.
Put refresh URLs in the outgoing directory with correct URL. Delete
auto-generated files in Makefile before re-generating. Choosing 'edit selected
item' in configuration pages shows current values. Fix potential crash with
wwwoffle-hash. Put a DESTDIR variable in Makefile for easier installation.
Fix parsing IPv6 addresses in audit-usage.pl script. Makefile change for
FreeBSD make. Bug fix for the Alias section of the config file. Fix Makefile
for Win32.
New Features:
Allow CGI scripts to be used with the built-in web server.
Availability
============
Version 2.7b uploaded, but may not be available yet
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.7b.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.7b.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01,02
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
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From: Detlev Offenbach <detlev@die-offenbachs.de>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: FilmDB 2002 Version 0.4 released
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:56:52 CST
Hello,
I have just released Version 0.4 of FilmDB 2002. This is a PHP Database
application for the management of DVD and Video collections. It uses a
standard LAMP setup. Please see the homepage for more info.
Homepage: http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/index_en.html
--
Detlev Offenbach
detlev@die-offenbachs.de
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From: Adrian Davis <adrian@satisoft.com>
Subject: ANN: SATSHELL (Alpha1) The easy way to create GUI shell scripts.
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:56:52 CST
SATSHELL (Alpha1) has been released and is available from:-
www.satisoft.com/satshell
SATSHELL is the easy way to create Linux/Unix shell scripts with GUI
interfaces. SATSHELL GUI screens are described using a simple easy-to
learn screen layout language (SAT/DL). The interface between SATSHELL
and shell scripts is very simple as it uses the normal Linux/Unix
Standard Input/Output mechanism. SATSHELL is available as an executable
for Linux, and as source code for other Unix platforms.
The current release of SAT/DL includes the following features:-
* Labelled entry boxes.
* Buttons.
* Check buttons.
* Radio buttons.
* Multi-column list box.
* Drop down picklist.
* Toolbars (with balloon help).
* Menus.
* Display text.
* Borders and lines.
* Support for function keys.
Regards,
=Adrian=
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