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Linux-Announce Digest #234
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Linux-Announce Digest #234, Volume #4 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:13:05 EST
Contents:
[LOCAL] Toronto - PegaSoft November Dinner Meeting ("Ken O. Burtch")
Dump/restore 0.4b32 released (Stelian Pop)
RE COMMERCIAL:Dual Intel Rackmount server for sale (sales)
Reliaty and NetApp Announce Software Certification ("Sue Myers at Reliaty")
sysstat-4.0.7 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Guikachu_1=2E3=2E2_=22Habos_kaka=F3=22=3A_GNOME_?= (ERDI Gergo)
SlakbootIBS Interactive Boot Scripts AVAILABLE (Tony Borras)
Yet another Linux FAQ correction ("TekMate")
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:53:18 CST
From: "Ken O. Burtch" <kburtch@sympatico.ca>
Subject: [LOCAL] Toronto - PegaSoft November Dinner Meeting
The next PegaSoft Canada job networking / dinner meeting is on Thursday,
November 21, 2002 - 7:00-9:00pm.
Location: Swiss Chalet - 234 Bloor Street W. (Directions 416-972-6831)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
There's no charge to attend.
Dinner Meeting Info: http://www.pegasoft.ca/events.html
Topics:
* Christmas Party / CHUM-CITY Christmas Wish Fundraiser in December
* 2003 Memberships
* Open Forum - In the News
* PegaSoft 2003 Linux Workshop series
* Featured talk: Linux Remote Procedure Calls
PegaSoft Canada is a Linux organization based in Toronto. More of a club
that a software company, PegaSoft members meet at regular meetings to
discuss the latest trends and opportunities in Linux and work together
to develop great new Linux software. Our goal is to act both as a
programmer resource and to promote projects developed by our members.
For more information, visit our web site.
--
Ken O. Burtch: http://www.pegasoft.ca : Pegasoft
System Manager in a Box / Business Shell : R.R.#1
Bio: 36;Bsc,UI,Lang,Games;Toons,Elves,SF,Pizza;Xian : Jordan Station, ON
````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Canada L0R 1S0
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:53:25 CST
From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Subject: Dump/restore 0.4b32 released
Reply-To: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Hi everybody,
A new version of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem
backup utilities, has been released today.
This new release features several minor and not so minor bugfixes.
For details, read the changelog, pasted below.
As you all already know it, the dump/restore homepage is located at:
http://dump.sourceforge.net
Enjoy,
Stelian.
Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002)
=======================================================================
1. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead
of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old
locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the
dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack
on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new
scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file.
Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for
reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post).
2. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings
about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling
<jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this
bug.
3. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes.
4. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB
(raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs
this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp
<dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this.
5. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an
inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount
of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin
<sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug.
6. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases,
to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP
directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks
to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and
providing the test cases.
7. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump:
replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with
'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested
by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report.
--
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:54:08 CST
From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: RE COMMERCIAL:Dual Intel Rackmount server for sale
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StoreAnywhere.com Inc. is a dedicated Linux systems
company with a wide variety of rackmount servers and
Linux workstation line. At this Holiday Season it is
promoting its products. The following is one of them.
To find more go and check our website:
http://www.storeanywhere.com.
1U Dual PIII 1Ghz Server
Tyan S2510 or S2505 dual CPU motherboard for 1U
2 x Intel PIII 1Ghz CPUs
512mb ECC PC-133 SDRAM
80G 7200rpm Hard drive
Dual Fast Ethernet
Two Integrated USB ports
ATA 100 raid onboard of TYAN S2505
1.44mb Floppy drive (Generic)
52X CD-Rom (Generic)
1U Rackmount Chassis
Keyboard, Mouse(Generic)
Pre-installed with one of the followings:
/Redhat Linux 8.x
/debian linux 3.x
/FreeBSD 4.x
For a total price of $999.
To place order, do it on line or call
718-934-7313. Any queries send e-mail to
sales@storeanywhere.com.
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:54:07 CST
From: "Sue Myers at Reliaty" <sue.myers@reliaty.com>
Subject: Reliaty and NetApp Announce Software Certification
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Good afternoon,
I thought you might want to see this update from Reliaty (www.reliaty.com)
and NetWork Appliance (www.netapp.com) on software certification that will
be announced on Monday.
Reliaty expects to be making more announcements after the beginning of the
new year and I'll be in touch to give you previews of those. In the
meantime, please call if you have questions.
Best wishes for a good holiday season,
Sue
Sue Myers for Reliaty, Inc.
978.369.6336
smyers@gis.net
Network Appliance Certifies Reliaty Backup for Data ONTAP
AMHERST, NH — November 18, 2002 — Reliaty, a prominent developer of advanced
data protection solutions, and Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a
leader in enterprise network storage, today announced Reliaty Backup
certification for NetApp® Data ONTAP™ 6.2 and 6.3. Reliaty also supports the
recently announced Network Appliance FAS900 series, which unifies NAS and
SAN.
This certification allows customers to use Reliaty Backup software with
NetApp enterprise storage solutions running the latest Data ONTAP software.
The combination of Reliaty Backup and NetApp delivers a highly scalable data
and storage management solution that is easy to deploy and manage, while
less expensive to operate.
Reliaty Backup is the first data protection solution that allows backup and
recovery of data from any point within a storage environment to any device,
regardless of the server and storage platforms or location of the
connections. It is the only data protection solution to offer this seamless
methodology for multiplatform environments, creating a new level of cost
savings, ease-of-use, and faster data recovery.
"Reliaty and NetApp worked together to fulfill customers’ needs for proven,
trustworthy data storage and protection solutions," explained Paul Hansen,
senior director of marketing at NetApp. "We understand that customers rely
on dependable data protection in order to safeguard their critical business
information and continue their business operations."
About Reliaty
Reliaty delivers the industry’s first data protection software founded on
NDMP to safeguard vital enterprise information and ensure business
continuity. Reliaty is a leader in the NDMP Working Group of the Storage
Networking Industry Association (SNIA), defining the architecture and
standardization of NDMP V4 and V5. Visit www.reliaty.com.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's
data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance
has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive
the evolution of storage.
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:54:16 CST
From: Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-4.0.7 - System performance tools for Linux
Hi Linux users,
This is to announce that sysstat version 4.0.7 is now available on
ibiblio's Linux archive site (formerly known as Metalab):
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/
102kB sysstat-4.0.7.tar.gz
104kB sysstat-4.0.7-1.src.rpm
65kB sysstat-4.0.7-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
for Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
sysstat 4.0.7 is a *stable* version, which is fully compatible with
Linux 2.4 kernels.
Note that a new sysstat series (4.1.x) is to begin soon to take into
account recent 2.5 kernel changes.
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Changes vs 4.0.6 are:
2002/11/13: Version 4.0.7
* Make data for timestamp 00:00:00 appear in one of the daily data
files when sar/sadc rotates its output file.
* Take out check for non SMP configuration when asking for mpstat -P.
* sargon script updated.
* FAQ updated.
Enjoy!
--
Sébastien Godard <sebastien dot godard at wanadoo dot fr>
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:54:50 CST
From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Guikachu_1=2E3=2E2_=22Habos_kaka=F3=22=3A_GNOME_?=
Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
As a special birthday present to myself, a new development 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
========
* Uses GNOME-VFS, you can load files from anywhere, e.g. from the
Web, from an SMB share, from a tarball.
* Exporting to PilRC .rcp files
* Support for non-Palm PilRC targets (like the eBookMan)
* Support for the following PalmOS resource types:
- String and string list resources
- Dialog resources
- Menu resources
- Form resources
- Per-application resources (e.g. version number)
* WYSIWYG Form Editor, with drag & drop capability and visual resizing
* Flexible, complete undo support
* Sample file with sample GNU PalmOS SDK-based application
* Documentation (a complete user's manual)
About these releases
====================
This release is part of the 1.3 development branch, so it's all about
crazy experimentations and not about providing a polished, well-tested
product -- so don't quite replace your 1.2 Guikachu just yet.
New features and improvements:
* Undo/redo support for every action. Change the
/apps/guikachu/Interface/undo_size GConf key to manually
tune the size of the undo stack
* Display '*' in title bar of the main window when current
file has changed (Christopher)
* Removed DIALOG window manager flag from windows (fixes
#93885)
Guikachu uses GTKmm and GNOMEmm for its user interface. I/O is
implemented via GNOME-VFS, the XML storage format is managed with the
libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via libglade. GConf is used
to store user preferences. You will need the versions of these
packages available in the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the exception of
GNOMEmm 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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\ http://cactus.rulez.org \ they want' -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
`-----= cactus@cactus.rulez.org =--'
The situation is hopeless but not serious.
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:54:49 CST
From: Tony Borras <tonyb@sysdev.org>
Subject: SlakbootIBS Interactive Boot Scripts AVAILABLE
The upgraded SlakbootIBS Interactive Scripts support the newer
kernels running Slackware 7 thru 8.1.
These replacement Slackware Linux boot scripts are intended to
facilitate server configuration at facilities with multiple Linux
servers deployed.
The Linux boot scripts are derived from the original set of Slackware
/etc/rc.d run command (rc) scripts, and upgraded with sysvinit-2.84.
The current IBS Version is compliant with the latest Slackware v8.1
scripts. SlakbootIBS now follows the same version numbers as
Slackware, to avoid confusion.
The scripts provide backward compatibility with older versions of
Slackware, since one of their goal is to simplify server admin across
multiple hosts.
If you need to upgrade or are interested in seeing this new boot style
for
Slackware installations, here are the links:
http://www.sysdev.org/sdev004.htm
ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/lintools/IBS
mailto:support@sysdev.org
SLACKWARE /etc/rc.d STYLE SCRIPTS & TOOLS
INTERACTIVE BOOT STARTUP (IBS v8.1.0)
FOR
SLACKWARE 7.x & 8.x
WHY A NEW KLONE OF SLACKWARE START-UP SCRIPTS ???
First, because I wanted the interactive choices of which servicesto
start where, in a big network, without having to remember what boot
scripts I had modified on each machine. So all systems can now be
programmatically homogeneous as well as dynamic, depending on
what is needed at the moment.
Second, I could not see what was going on during boot with the fast
scrolling and lack of color. Now I no longer have to pay a lot of
attention. If I see red flashing by the corner of my eye, I know I
need to go back and check, because something is wrong. Before, I
did not even know there was a message about something I could have
easily fixed-up. Yes, I know I could have tee'd the screen output,
or read the logs more carefully, but it is not as much fun as a well
formatted console display.
And finally, there was a need to integrate a persistent PPP or DSL
connection to our ISP and firewall start-up, with the re-boot of
Slackware
boxes. That way the network can run unattended. In the case of
power-fail
or crashes, the auto-reboot would still bring the gateway connection up
automatically.
---------------
The SlakbootIBS set of scripts is intended as a template for:
- System Administrators.
- those that have an array of Slackware stations with different
H/W - S/W architectures, but wish to have a single debugged set
of start-up scripts.
- those that want dynamic boot capabilities because they have
a need for different configurations at different times or are
testing software.
- those experiencing configuration boot errors and are trying
to see what is really happening.
- those that want to manage their NFS and Samba mounts easier.
- those having problems when mixing ISA cards and ISA Plug'nPlay cards
on the same motherboard.
- those wishing to host their own web site via a persistent PPP or DSL
connection with ipchains and/or iptables Firewall.
INSTALLING THIS PACKAGE WILL NOT CLOBBER YOUR CURRENT
/etc/rc.d START-UP!!!
You will need to run /etc/rc.d.IBS/install.sh to do that. Your scripts
wiil be backed to /etc/rc.d.ibssave!
The scripts divide the Slackware boot process into three(3) phases:
I. Init Hardware Initialization Phase (unchanged)
II. System Initialization Phase (interactive)
III. Multiuser Initialization Phase (interactive)
At the start of phases II & III, the screen will clear and a beep
will sound. If you take no actions, the boot will proceed to
completion, as before.
After package installation, read the Slakboot ibs manual page
- man ibs.
New SlakbootIBS Version 8.1.0 capabilities:
==========================================
* The installation script, /rc.d.IBS/install.sh, will install a
manual page. To view it use 'man ibs'.
* The verbose free-form style of Slackware start-up, we all love,
is preserved but controlled slightly, so we can spot errors,
dynamically modify selections and control what is really happening.
* The start-up screen now uses color to better highlite information
and make errors encountered stand-out. The screen scrolls slower,
for easier detection!!!
* Pressing Control-S and Control-Q will now HALT and RESUME the
start-up process, for better reading.
* Phase III is interactive, allowing the administrator to choose
daemons that should be skipped (in realtime) and things like NFS,
SMB mounts, sendmail, MySQL, APACHE, PPP, ISP auto start-up, and
Firewalls. Two sample firewalls are included, rc.ipchains and
rc.iptables.
The versions of important components are now usually displayed during
boot, like which sendmail, MySQL, Apache, etc...
On Slackware 7.x, only rc.ipchains will be started after a PPP
connection is completed. With Slackware 8.x, default is rc.iptables,
but it will load rc.ipchains if rc.iptables is renamed. The scripts
will handle all firewall related modules, loading and unloading,
for you.
* For each interactive component, a '[xxxx]' box will be displayed.
The IBS prompt control program /sbin/emit has been improved for
better response sensitivity and keyboard debounce.
While the contents of the box are shown in Red the user can select
to press ESC or any key other than <space> to skip the item.
Interactive component boxes '[xxxx]' can also display '[Done]',
'[Skip]', '[Busy]', '[Down]', or '[Fail]' depending on the result of
the operation. A successfull load of a Linux service or daemon will
turn the component color from red to yellow. A skipped daemon, will
remove the interactive component box.
* Default rc.inet1 has support for both eth0 and eth1 network cards.
* rc.inet2 and rc.local have support to connect to your ISP and
start a firewall in the background, during start-up, when no
GATEWAY is specified. The installation of a yellow pages NIS client
or server, is now interactively determined at boot time by inspecting
the contents of /etc/yp.conf, if it exists. Otherwise NIS is not
started.
* Two new scripts have been added. rc.mysql, which will start the MySQL
daemon and rc.sendmail, which now handles both pre-v8.12.0 sendmails
and the newer post-v 8.12.0 sendmails. Start of rc.mysql is optional,
and it is enabled in the new rc.local script. If rc.sendmail is
renamed,
then only the old pre-v8.12.0 sendmail start-up (rc.M) will be used.
* Made some fixes to rc.modules, so that ISA, ISA Plug'nPlay, and
PCI cards can live together better.
* You can modify the setting of the local script variable
'default_sleep',
in the /etc/rc.d IBS scripts, to control how fast or slow the boot is.
INSTALL
=======
SlakbootIBS scripts work with Slackware Version 7.x provided that
your Bash shell version is 2.05.0(1) or above and you have upgraded
to sysvinit-2.83 or above.
execute /bin/bash --version, to check your Bash version.
To install SlakbootIBS we recommend that you execute ./install.sh
from the install directory /etc/rc.d.IBS This will make backups of
your current /etc/rc.d to /etc/rc.d.ibssave and verify your Bash shell,
before overlaying the new scripts over your old ones. Follow the
directions given by ./install.sh to complete your installation,
before reboot. install.sh will NOT OVERLAY your rc.inet1 and
rc.modules,
instead it will copy the IBS versions to *.IBS files and allow you to
edit and rename them to making them active.
--
http://www.sysdev.org Windows / Linux Device Drivers
comxoft@alum.mit.edu System Tools / Utilities
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:55:11 CST
From: "TekMate" <tekmate@nospam.hotmail.com>
Subject: Yet another Linux FAQ correction
Forgot to post url
Version 2.1 released
http://www.cafecomputer.com/faqindex.htm
About: Yet another Linux FAQ is a comprehensive FAQ about the Linux
Operating System. It is a great document for Linux beginners to read. This
FAQ tries to help those new to Linux help themselves. It covers topics such
as kernel recompilation and X Window System configuration.
Changes: Some broken links were fixed and a few new ones were added.
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