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Linux-Announce Digest #635
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Linux-Announce Digest #635, Volume #4 Tue, 30 Dec 2003 06:13:05 EST
Contents:
Fcron 2.9.4 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron (Thibault Godouet)
INDIA: About LINUX For You January 2004 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Re: INDIA: About LINUX For You January 2004 (fwd) (rch)
CollegeLinux 2.5 Released (David Costa)
Afio archiver version 2.5 (Koen Holtman)
Rekall 2.2.0 Beta1: With More Developments (Mike Richardson)
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:56:30 CST
From: Thibault Godouet <fcron@free.fr>
Subject: Fcron 2.9.4 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron
What is new in this release (2.9.4) ?
====================================
* Merged support for SE Linux (patch from Russell Coker : thanks !)
* Work on the documentation (fixed spelling mistakes, tried to make
things clearer in fcrontab.5) (thanks Bill Wohler for your help !)
* Changed the subject line of mail reports : it now contains the
subject line, and is very similar to vixie cron's one.
* Added a sum-up at the end of ./configure.
* bug fix : "makewhatis" bug is fixed -- at last !
In fact, the problems encountered were due to an abusively ignored
signal SIGPIPE.
* bug fix : possible crash of fcron when trying to save a file if
there was no space left on device.
* bug fix : we don't consider '-' and '_' as word delimiters for a
username before the command anymore, since many programs have one
of these characters in their name.
* bug fix : option first was broken in fcron 2.9.3.
* fixed a little typo in an error message (could->couldn't)
* bug fix : do not ignore the last line of a fcrontab if there is no
\n before the end of file.
* fixed compile on SunOS 5.9 .
* Fcron now compiles on MacOS X.
* added some $srcdir to be able (again ;) ) to run configure from
another directory.
* Perf improvement : use buffer for i/o in run_job().
What is fcron ?
==============
Fcron is a scheduler. It aims at replacing Vixie Cron, so it implements most
of its functionalities.
But contrary to Vixie Cron, fcron does not need your system to be up 7 days
a week, 24 hours a day : it also works well with systems which are
not running neither all the time nor regularly (contrary to anacrontab).
In other words, fcron does both the job of Vixie Cron and anacron, but does
even more and better :)) ...
To do so, fcron allows you to use the standard mode in which you tell
it to execute one command at a given date and hour and to make it run
a command according to its time of execution, which is normally the same as
system up time. For example :
Run the task 'save /home/ directory'
every 3h15 of system up time.
and, of course, in order to make it really useful, the time remaining until
next execution is saved each time the system is stopped.
You can also say :
run that command once between 2am and 5am
which will be done if the system is running at any time in this interval.
Fcron also includes a useful system of options, which can be applied
either to
every lines following the declaration or to a single line. Some of
the supported options permit to:
- run jobs one by one,
- set the max system load average value under which the job should be run,
- set a nice value for a job,
- run jobs at fcron's startup if they should have been run
during system down time,
- mail user to tell him a job has not run and why,
- a better management of the mailing of outputs ...
What is planed for next releases ?
=================================
Please go to http://fcron.free.fr/doc/todo.html
(propositions and help are welcome)
How you can help me
===================
If you'd like to help me, please contact me at :
fcron@free.fr
Where can I get it ?
===================
You can either go to the project home page at :
http://fcron.free.fr
or get it from metalab at :
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/cron/fcron-2.9.4.src.tar.gz
(371kB)
(I've sent the file but it may take some time before it is available on
metalab)
or get it from seul.org (USA) :
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/fcron/fcron-2.9.4.src.tar.gz (371kB)
I hope you will enjoy it,
Thibault.
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:57:15 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: About LINUX For You January 2004 (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hi Fred,
Below are the details of the LINUX For You, January 2004 issue. If you want
more details let me know.
----------------------- LINUX For You January 2004 ----------------------
Attached are the Cover and the contents page of the January Issue.
Just to re-iterate the 2004 issue of LFY has 2 CDs and a 16 Page supplement
extra. (Details below)
The issue has a dual highlight -- Focus on PHP and the History of Linux.
The PHP Focus includes:
(1) Interview of Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the most popular
web-scripting language, PHP.
(2) An article on Smarty: the PHP templating engine.
(3) Review of PHP 5 Beta. This is actually a preview.
Other editorial includes:
(1) An article on the History of Linux.
(2) Interview of Joel Burman, director -- marketing and product planning for
Linux on Integrity Servers, HP
(3) Interview of S. Rajendran, general manager, sales and marketing,
consumer product group, Acer India Pvt. Ltd.
(4) Case Study of Karnataka's Apex Bank
(5) Linux for the Corporate User -- A 3-part series that explains why a
corporate user should think Linux
(6) Programming tools in Linux
(7) Using SSL for secure data transfer
(8) Review of Fedora Linux
(9) Creating Charts in Calc
(10) Working with Newsletters in Write
(11) Review of VMWare, Win4Lin, CrossOver Office
(12) The second part of the Kickstart Red Hat Linux installation article
(13) Examining Process Information through the /proc filesystem.
(14) Build a simple document management system in Perl
(15) The Penguin Fight: KDE vs. GNOME
(16) Snapshot Survey: Clustering Software: Linux stands tall
(17) LFY Events: Linux Bangalore 2003
(18) GNU Corner: Standardising the Penguin (Part 1)
The 2004 issue of LFY has 2 CDs and a 16 Page supplement extra.
About the 16-page supplement
The 16 Page supplement is titled: LINUX For You PRO.
The issue is aimed at Linux Experts. The sub-title reads: Proficient.
Proactive. Professional.
The supplement has an article on making a music jukebox titled: "Make
Yourself a Penguin Jukebox".
All the related software is also included in the LFY CD.
About the add-on CD
For the benefit of our readers we have also increased the number of CDs.
Instead of one, there will now be two CDs in every issue.
One CD has the usual mix of software for every type of Linux user.
The other CD has FreeDUC. It is a bootable distribution that has
applications specially packed for educational purposes.
--Mayank
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From: robinchhetri@hotmail.com (rch)
Subject: Re: INDIA: About LINUX For You January 2004 (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:04:48 CST
Hi
How come the december issue of the magazine was not available in
the markets here(kathmandu,Nepal).I could be a subscriber,but it often
costs very less to buy the magazine at the news-stand(The cover price
of Rs50) than to be a subscriber.I don't understand why the Indian
magazines charge exuberant prices for their magazine despite the open
border and almost non-existant taxes.
"Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.50.0312300102490.7190-100000@news.goa.bytesforall.org>...
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> Below are the details of the LINUX For You, January 2004 issue. If you want
> more details let me know.
>
>
> ----------------------- LINUX For You January 2004 ----------------------
>
> Attached are the Cover and the contents page of the January Issue.
>
> Just to re-iterate the 2004 issue of LFY has 2 CDs and a 16 Page supplement
> extra. (Details below)
>
>
> The issue has a dual highlight -- Focus on PHP and the History of Linux.
>
> The PHP Focus includes:
> (1) Interview of Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the most popular
> web-scripting language, PHP.
> (2) An article on Smarty: the PHP templating engine.
> (3) Review of PHP 5 Beta. This is actually a preview.
>
>
> Other editorial includes:
>
> (1) An article on the History of Linux.
> (2) Interview of Joel Burman, director -- marketing and product planning for
> Linux on Integrity Servers, HP
> (3) Interview of S. Rajendran, general manager, sales and marketing,
> consumer product group, Acer India Pvt. Ltd.
> (4) Case Study of Karnataka's Apex Bank
> (5) Linux for the Corporate User -- A 3-part series that explains why a
> corporate user should think Linux
> (6) Programming tools in Linux
> (7) Using SSL for secure data transfer
> (8) Review of Fedora Linux
> (9) Creating Charts in Calc
> (10) Working with Newsletters in Write
> (11) Review of VMWare, Win4Lin, CrossOver Office
> (12) The second part of the Kickstart Red Hat Linux installation article
> (13) Examining Process Information through the /proc filesystem.
> (14) Build a simple document management system in Perl
> (15) The Penguin Fight: KDE vs. GNOME
> (16) Snapshot Survey: Clustering Software: Linux stands tall
> (17) LFY Events: Linux Bangalore 2003
> (18) GNU Corner: Standardising the Penguin (Part 1)
>
>
> The 2004 issue of LFY has 2 CDs and a 16 Page supplement extra.
>
>
> About the 16-page supplement
>
> The 16 Page supplement is titled: LINUX For You PRO.
>
> The issue is aimed at Linux Experts. The sub-title reads: Proficient.
> Proactive. Professional.
> The supplement has an article on making a music jukebox titled: "Make
> Yourself a Penguin Jukebox".
> All the related software is also included in the LFY CD.
>
> About the add-on CD
>
> For the benefit of our readers we have also increased the number of CDs.
> Instead of one, there will now be two CDs in every issue.
> One CD has the usual mix of software for every type of Linux user.
> The other CD has FreeDUC. It is a bootable distribution that has
> applications specially packed for educational purposes.
>
>
>
>
> --Mayank
>
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:28:49 CST
From: guru@dotgeek.org (David Costa)
Subject: CollegeLinux 2.5 Released
The long awaited CollegeLinux 2.5 has been released: "We are glad to
announce the long awaited release of CollegeLinux 2.5 'Obi Wan'. Once
again we did a release taking the necessary 6 months to bring
something new, exclusive and never seen within the Linux community.
Whilst there is a growing trend to release as often as possible, we
have chosen to implement some important and innovative features and
release only when there is something worth your time and bandwidth."
Among the more interesting new features are a server robot which
automatically installs and configures Apache, PHP, MySQL, SQLite,
Webmin and PHPMyAdmin, and a slapt-get based auto-update engine
integrated into Konqueror. See the full announcement for details at
http://linux.college.ch
CollegeLinux is a Slackware-compatible Linux distribution designed for
desktop and development workstations with many user-friendly
enhancements
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:31:09 CST
From: Koen Holtman <koen@hep.caltech.edu>
Subject: Afio archiver version 2.5
Subject: Afio archiver version 2.5
Keywords: backup archiver compressed fault tolerant afio cpio
After being more than 1 year in beta, this new afio version includes
support for >2GB files.
* WHAT IS AFIO?
Afio is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format archives.
Like tar, afio can make compressed archives. However, the compressed
archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z archives. If a
tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to extract the files
beyond this error. The compressed archive format used by afio allows
it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file.
* WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 2.5?
- Added support for archiving files larger than 2 GB.
The resulting archives are not fully compatible with cpio, but
preserve cpio compatibility as much as possible.
- Various small bug fixes.
- Added support for creating archives larger than 2GB on a filesystem.
- New -6 option to suppress the compression of files based on shell
pattern matching.
- New -vv option for ls -l style file list output when creating an
archive.
- Restores modification time of directories correctly.
- Improved/debugged support for handling many hard linked files.
- Support for UID/GID values larger than 64K.
- Some additional small new features.
- Improved documentation.
- Added automatic regression that can be used to test the binary after
compilation.
* WHERE DO I GET IT?
Version 2.5 is at:
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio-2.5.tgz
And soon at
ibiblio.org : /pub/Linux/system/backup/afio-2.5.tgz
http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:31:28 CST
From: Mike Richardson <mike@quaking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Rekall 2.2.0 Beta1: With More Developments
Rekall is a database front end, somewhat in the style of Access, formerly
sold by theKompany.com but now released under a GPL license. See
http://www.rekallrevealed.org
============
Rekall 2.2.0 Beta1 is now available. Following the current trend of giving
open source softwate releases cheesy names, this is the "With More
Development" release.
I would like to be able to claim that there are no bugs in this release:)
However, I am quite certain that some bugs are there to be found, even if I
am not sure of their location. I am confident that users will be able to
inspect this release of Rekall for such bugs, and be able to report back on
them.
The source tarball can be downloaded from:
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/packages/
Changes in this release are mostly aimed at getting it to build cleanly on
current and recent releases. It has been build (by me) on:
RH 7.3, 8, 9
MDK 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
SuSE 8.1, 8.2, 9.0
and has also been reported to build on
Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.8.0
In each case the installation is essentially a "stock" distribution with the
necessary development packages installed.
See the file README.FIRST inside the tarball for details; this is also
available at http://www.rekallrevealed.org, follow
Content->Obtaining and Building->Obtaining and Building.
This also contains the CVS information.
Regards
Mike Richardson
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