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Linux-Announce Digest #751
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Linux-Announce Digest #751, Volume #4 Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:13:06 EDT
Contents:
ProcMeter3 - System monitoring program (cpu, memory etc.) ("Andrew M. Bishop")
Fcron 2.0.1 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron (Thibault Godouet)
Jailkit 0.6 released (Olivier)
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:30:20 CST
Subject: ProcMeter3 - System monitoring program (cpu, memory etc.)
From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
PROCMETER V3.4b
===============
The ProcMeter program itself is a framework on which a number of modules
(plugins) are loaded. More modules can be written as required to perform more
monitoring and informational functions.
The statistics that are displayed are grouped by module, with a menu allowing
selection of module and a sub-menu for each output available for that module.
APM
Advanced Power Management information. These outputs are only available
if you have configured the kernel to have the APM feature.
Biff
Monitors the e-mail inbox (in /var/spool/mail/<username> or
/var/mail/<username>) and indicates the number of e-mails that are
waiting and the size.
Date_Time
The current date and time and the amount of time since the system was
last booted.
DiskUsage
Shows the percentage of the disk that is used and the amount of free
space for each of the local disks that it finds are mounted or can be
mounted when the program starts.
LogFile
Monitors the size and number of lines and the rate of increase of these
in a set of log files.
Memory
The amount of memory that is used for programs, buffers, cache and the
amount that is free.
Network
The network devices and the amount of traffic on each of them. It will
automatically pick up available devices when it starts.
Processes
The load average and the number of processes running and starting.
ProcMeter
Information about the procmeter program itself.
Sensors
Hardware sensors for temperature and fan speed. (Requires sensor
hardware and kernel patch from http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ or
version 2.6 kernel).
Statistics
Low level system statistics. For example CPU usage, disk usage,
swapping and paging.
VM_Statistics
Low level system statistics about virtual memory (swaping and paging)
for kernel version 2.5 where the information has moved from the Statistics
section.
Stat-CPU
Statistics about individual CPU usage including support for SMP
machines.
Stat-Disk
Statistics about individual disk usage including support for up to 4
disks.
Stat-Intr
Statistics about individual interrupts including support for up to 32
interrupts.
Uname
The system information from the uname program, hostname and Linux kernel
version.
Wireless
Information about wireless network devices. It will automatically pick
up available devices when it starts.
Longrun
For systems with the Transmeta Crueso processor, information about
longrun. Will not work unless the kernel is compiled with CPUID
support, and /dev/cpu/0/cpuid must be readable by procmeter.
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface information. These outputs
are only available if you have enabled ACPI in the Linux kernel and you
have the appropriate hardware. ACPI can report various information
about a system's battery, and may also have thermal outputs available.
Changes
=======
Since version 3.4a:
New or changed modules:
The stat-disk module can display individual disk partitions for kernel 2.6.x.
The modules stat, stat-disk, sensors and meminfo now work with kernel 2.6.x.
Handle different header line for hostap wireless driver.
Bug fixes:
Modules that didn't work with kernel 2.6.x now do (see above).
Improved some module initialisation functions.
Availability
============
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/X11/xutils/procmeter3-3.4b.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/xstatus/procmeter3-3.4b.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/procmeter3/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,1997,98,99,2000,01,02,03,04
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put procmeter in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:38:23 CST
From: Thibault Godouet <fcron@free.fr>
Subject: Fcron 2.0.1 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron
What is new in this release (2.0.1) ?
====================================
- Fix a bug which occured on daylight saving time change on some systems
(solaris, ...).
It would make fcron run into an infinite loop.
- Add a sanity check to avoid such infinite loops.
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-2.0.1.src.tar.gz
(142kB)
(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-2.0.1.src.tar.gz (142kB)
I hope you will enjoy it,
Thibault.
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From: Olivier <olivier@lx.student.wau.nl>
Subject: Jailkit 0.6 released
Date: 25 Apr 2004 21:25:09 GMT
Jailkit is a set of utilities to allow quick creation of limited user
accounts in a chroot jail. It contains a safe logging daemon, shells that
can restrict users, utilities to start daemons in a chroot jail, and
utilities for easy setup of chroot jails.
*** Jailkit 0.6 ***
- improved jk_procmailwrapper utility (can do jailed mail delivery!)
- fixed some compile/install bugs
- added more and improved checks to jk_check
- again much improved documentation
visit http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/ for more information
regards,
Olivier Sessink
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