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Date: 1998-04-11 19:13:30
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Linux-Announce Digest #983, Volume #2 Sat, 11 Apr 98 19:13:30 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Meeting time changes for KLUG (Kalamazoo) ("Robert G. Brown")
bib-search-0.9.8 - a bibtex utility (Frederic Gobry)
LOCAL: Hamilton Linux Users Group meeting and Install-fest! (Ron Harwood)
COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: Easter discounts at the Linux Software Store in Germany/Europe \
(ixsoft Softwareentwicklung- und vertrieb) suck-3.9.2 - retreive news from a remote \
NNTP server (Dad) Webmin version 0.42 - web based admin for Unix (Jamie Cameron)
OMNeT++ Discrete Event Simulation System (Varga Andras)
HummingBird 0.2.0 - A Distributed Intrusion Detection System (Jamie Marconi)
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From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Meeting time changes for KLUG (Kalamazoo)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:45:56 GMT
Reply-To: bob@acm.org
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Kalamazoo Linux Users Group -- Changes
Some time has passed since the last announcement has been released from our
group, and this notice serves to keep all of those interested up to date on
our activities. A number of changes have taken place here regarding meeting
times, place, mailing list and web addresses, and it's worth reporting now...
New Meeting Time - Tuesday Evenings, at 6 PM. We are now meeting at Building
298 of the Pharmacia & Upjohn building complex. This is
on the North-East corner of Portage Road and Bishop Street.
These Meetings are held EVERY WEEK. There are two kinds of
meetings:
1. Monthly Business Meeting. This is a meeting where we
expect to take votes, and make decisions. We will also
plan a good quality presentation or demonstration.
Our next Business meeting will be in late April (probably
21 April, but not yet decided for sure).
2. Weekly informal meetings, held on other Tuesday evenings.
We get together and talk about what's new, what each of
the members present are doing, and share experience. New
members are especially welcome to these meetings; we'll
be happy to work with anyone who attends. Bring your com-
puter and we'll install Linux for you!
As we develop projects, the meetings will also be time for
participants in the project to gather and discuss topics
related to the project at hand.
New Web Site - Our new Website is ready for your visit at:
http://klug.armintl.com
That's right, not www dot anything. You can find more details
there, information updates, and other good stuff!!
We've also just joined the Linux Users Group Webring, a
steadily growing ring of good sites that make good browsing
for anyone interested in networking with the emerging leaders
of the Linux user groups in their areas.
New Mailing list - Our New and growing mailing list is:
klug@klug.armintl.com
Join, read, particpate in our email discussions.
With all of these changes, we're becoming a new group, a more responsive
group, and more interesting for our broad audience, which ranges from novices
to professionals. We look forward to including YOU in our group as well!
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From: gobry@bishorn.idiap.ch (Frederic Gobry)
Subject: bib-search-0.9.8 - a bibtex utility
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:05:40 GMT
Reply-To: gobry@nospam.idiap.ch
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I would like to announce release 0.9.8 of bib-search, a tool for
working with bibtex files. It provides a convenient command line with
history and contextual completion.
New features :
- use of several files simultaneously is now possible.
- simple scripting capabilities
- global and per user configurations files, allowing lots of
customizations.
- ...
bib-search is not intended to act as a filter, like BibTool for
example, but rather to help sharing bibtex databases. Users can search
their own bibtex files simultaneously with common repositories (for
example the available books in a given place) in a transparent manner.
Works has still to be done to make it more efficient. Please send me
any comments, bug reports or suggestions.
bib-search has been written in Perl. You can find more informations
about it and download the code at the following URL:
http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/bib-search.html
Frederic
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Frederic GOBRY IDIAP
Rue du Simplon 4,
Research Assistant CH 1920 - Martigny
Machine Learning Group Tel: +41 27 721 77 31
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From: Ron Harwood <harwoodr@technologist.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Hamilton Linux Users Group meeting and Install-fest!
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:55:10 GMT
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When: Wednesday April 8th, 1998 - 6:30pm
Where: Room E233 Mohawk College - Fennel Campus (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Need directions? Call the college at (905)575-1212.
INSTALL-FEST! Bring in your PC (and mouse) we'll have monitors and
keyboards, and LINUX distributions (Redhat 5.0, Slackware 3.4, Caldera Open
Linux Lite, ???)
Also, demonstrations on (at least what is lined up at this point):
Super Nintendo Emulator for Linux by Dave Arnold...
Redhat 5.0 on a NEC Versa 4080H (possibly with accelerated X by that
time)...
Does anyone else have anything they'd like to present? (or would like to
see presented?) Software demonstrations are always cool.
Regards,
Ron Harwood - Hamilton Linux Users Group
harwoodr@technologist.com
http://hlug.mohawkc.on.ca - server down due to stupidity...
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From: ixsoft@finow.snafu.de (ixsoft Softwareentwicklung- und vertrieb)
Subject: COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: Easter discounts at the Linux Software Store in \
Germany/Europe
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:56:03 GMT
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The following text announces a special Easter discount for some Linux
related products at the ixsoft Linux Store until April 11, 1998.
For further information and any questions, please have a look at our website
<http://www.ixsoft.de> or contact us directly under <mailto:info@ixsoft.de>.
Thank you !
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Die folgenden Oster-Sonderpreise gelten ab sofort bis 11.April 1998
im Linux Software Store von ixsoft <http://www.ixsoft.de/software>
NUR bei Bestellung über unsere Webseite oder per email !!!
[1] Caldera Open Linux 1.2 Standard US-Version, 3 CDROM+Handbuch, 399,-
(Kernel 2.0.33, Adabas D, StarOffice, Looking Glass)
[2] ApplixWare 4.3.7, Original ohne Handbuch, 2 CD incl. RHL 5.0 138,-
[3] ApplixWare 4.3.7 Upgrade von 4.2 (!), 2 CD incl. RHL 5.0 25,-
[4] RedHat Linux 5.0 [Box] (x86/alpha), Handbuch + 2 CDROM 79,-
incl. Kernel 2.0.32, Netscape 4.0.4, BRU-2000, Metro-X 4.1
[5] RedHat Linux 5.0 CD Bundle (x86/alpha), 2 CDROM 65,-
incl. Kernel 2.0.32, Netscape 4.0.4, BRU-2000, Metro-X 4.1
[6] RedHat Linux 5.0 300 S. Handbuch (englisch) 19,-
[7] Maximum RPM - Das offizielle Handbuch ! 456 S, Hardcover 65,-
Alle Preise in DM incl. der gesetzlichen Mehrwertsteuer, zusätzlich
kommen noch Versandkosten (Selbstkosten) hinzu.
Bestellungen und weitere Angebote/Infos bei
ixsoft <http://www.ixsoft.de>
Softwarentwicklung und
-vertrieb Bernd Hentig
Parkstr. 10
16244 Finowfurt
Fon 03335 325 320
FAX 03335 32 331
EMail info@ixsoft.de
sales@ixsoft.de
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The following Easter discount prices are valid from now until April 11,
1998 at the Linux Software Store <http://www.ixsoft.de/software> in
Germany when ordered with our web order form or via email.
All prices are in Deutschmarks and include German sales tax,
postage depends on country/speed of delivery.
[1] Caldera Open Linux 1.2 Standard US-Version, 3 CDROM+manual, 399,-
(Kernel 2.0.33, Adabas D, StarOffice, Looking Glass)
[2] ApplixWare 4.3.7, without manual, 2 CD incl. RHL 5.0 138,-
[3] ApplixWare 4.3.7 upgrade from 4.2 (!), 2 CD incl. RHL 5.0 25,-
[4] RedHat Linux 5.0 [Box] (x86/alpha), manual + 2 CDROM 79,-
incl. Kernel 2.0.32, Netscape 4.0.4, BRU-2000, Metro-X 4.1
[5] RedHat Linux 5.0 CD Bundle (x86/alpha), 2 CDROM 65,-
incl. Kernel 2.0.32, Netscape 4.0.4, BRU-2000, Metro-X 4.1
[6] RedHat Linux 5.0 original manual, 300 pages 19,-
[7] Maximum RPM - the official manual, 456 pages, hardcover 65,-
Sorry, prices in "Euro" will not be available sooner than Jan 1, 1999.
For further information or direct order, please contact us:
ixsoft <http://www.ixsoft.de>
Softwarentwicklung und
-vertrieb Bernd Hentig
Parkstr. 10
16244 Finowfurt
Fon 03335 325 320
FAX 03335 32 331
EMail info@ixsoft.de
sales@ixsoft.de
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| ixsoft Softwareentwicklung | email: ixsoft@ixsoft.de |
| und -vertrieb Bernd Hentig | www: http://www.ixsoft.de |
|Parkstr. 10 16244 Finowfurt| Fon: ++49 3335 3233 0 |
| Germany | FAX: ++49 3335 3233 1 |
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From: Dad <bobyetman@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: suck-3.9.2 - retreive news from a remote NNTP server
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:45:19 GMT
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This is to announce the release of suck-3.9.2.
PREFACE
=======
Original Author - Tim Smith (address unknown)
Maintainers -
March 1995 - Sven Goldt (address unknown)
July 1995 - Robert A. Yetman (bobyetman@worldnet.att.net)
Current Maintainer - bobyetman@worldnet.att.net
Spanish Docs - Simon Mudd (sjmudd@redestb.es)
Abraham Nevado (nevado@redestb.es)
LOCATION
========
*************************************************************
IMPORTANT ***************************************************
*************************************************************
As of version 3.9.2, I have changed my ISP. My new e-mail
address is bobyetman@worldnet.att.net. Please use that
address now.
My new homepage is http://home.att.net/~bobyetman/index.html
*************************************************************
visit http://home.att.net/~bobyetman/index.html
to download the latest version or view the README file.
FTP Sites:
Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/news/transport
File1 = suck-3.9.2.tar.gz
Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2 = /pub/linux/sources/sbin
File2 = suck-3.9.2.tar.gz
INTRODUCTION
============
The primary use for suck is to feed a local NNTP server, without the
remote NNTP feeding you articles. It is designed for a small, partial
news feed. It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles
a day.
This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your
local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server. It works
with most standard NNTP servers, including INN, CNEWS, DNEWS, and typhoon.
The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own site,
controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles.
Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite
news reader (tin, xvnews, strn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin
or xvnews against a NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost.
suck Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server
lpost Gives one article fetched by suck to the local server.
rpost Posts article(s) to a remote NNTP server
testhost Check to see what commands your host recognizes or
get the active or new list.
lmove * NEW * put articles in news/group/number format.
NOTE!
* Due to various reason, the document maintainers for the foreign language
man pages can no longer keep the documents up to date. This will be the
last release with any foreign language documents, unless new maintainers
are found. Only the Spanish man pages are contained, since the Japanese
Document maintainer didn't have the time.
I want to thank the maintainers for their time and efforts.
MAJOR CHANGES FROM 3.9.1 -> 3.9.2
* Bug fix on the variable type for MsgNrs. Previously they were ints, now
they are longs to handle MsgNrs such as 111222
* Fixed various bugs in the killfile code, to include - on TimeOut abort
instead of keep going and if using regex() and QUOTECHAR, it might not
have worked.
* If using re-connect fixed so that the buffer gets flushed on close,
and when we reconnect, we start with the right group number.
* In killfile code, some internal code changes, specifically in the search
mechanism for non-regex strings. Before we were using a brute-force
algorithm, now we are using a smarter search, which should speed things up.
Also re-wrote the way I handle the case-sensitive test and the QUOTE char.
* In killfile code, added the ability to designate a string as a non-regex
string. This is so that if you have a string like "$$$$$ MONEY $$$$", you
can tell suck to treat it as non-regex, where suck would think its a
regex (cause of the $). See man page for details. To go along with this,
I added the NON_REGEX= param to killfiles, to designate the character which
tells us we are non-regex.
* added -O --skip_on_restart option. This option tells suck to skip the
first article upon restart, useful when your remote NNTP server keeps timing
out on a particular article.
* added -LF --kill_log_name option. This option lets you override the built
in default of "suck.killlog" for the killfile log.
MAILING LIST!
=============
Thanks to Motoharu Kubo (mkubo@3ware.co.jp), there is now a mailing list
for suck. It is intended as a place to discuss problems, etc, plans, and
other issues related to suck. Its address is "suck-ml@3ware.co.jp".
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a mail message to majordomo@3ware.co.jp
with the message text reading "subscribe suck-ml"
bobyetman@worldnet.att.net (Robert A. Yetman)
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From: Jamie Cameron <jcameron@webmin.com>
Subject: Webmin version 0.42 - web based admin for Unix
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:04:48 GMT
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Looking for user-friendly way to manage
- Crontab
- NFS exports
- BIND
- Inetd
- SYSV init scripts
- Local/remote mounts and /etc/fstab
- Samba
- Users and groups
- Disk partitions
- Running processes
- Disk quotas
- Software packages
- PPP accounts
under Redhat Linux 4 and 5, Slackware Linux 3, Debian Linux 1.3,
SUSE Linux 5.1and Sparc Solaris 2.5 ?
New features in this version
- Access control for multiple users and passwords
- Automatic setup of quotas and Samba accounts when new Unix
users are created
Webmin is a web-based user interface that simplifies Unix system
administration. All you need is Perl version 5.003 and a web browser
that supports forms and tables (such as Netscape or IE). Webmin
includes its own dedicated web server, so no existing web server is
needed.
Webmin is currently beta software, and works by directly modifying
files such as /etc/passwd, /etc/fstab and smb.conf. As such, you should
think twice before using it on a vital production system, and be aware
that comments in the files modified are not allways preserved.
Download it now from http://www.webmin.com/
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From: Varga Andras <vandras@sch.bme.hu>
Subject: OMNeT++ Discrete Event Simulation System
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:06:15 GMT
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Announcing OMNeT++ 3.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OMNeT++ is an object-oriented modular discrete event simulator. The simulator
can be used for modelling:
o communication protocols
o computer networks (traffic modelling etc.)
o multi-processors and distributed systems
o ... any other system where the discrete event approach is suitable
OMNeT++ Home Page: http://www.hit.bme.hu/phd/vargaa/omnetpp.htm
Components and features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OMNeT++ provides much more than just the simulation library with statistical
classes. It has execution environments that support interactive simulation
including visualization of collected data. There's a gnuplot-based GUI tool
for analysing and plotting simulation results. OMNeT++ also helps in
specifying parameter values, managing multiple runs, selecting seed values
etc, and supports parallel execution (PVM3-based).
Modelling principles -- in nutshell
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An OMNeT++ model consists of modules that communicate with message passing.
There are two kind of modules: simple and compound. Simple modules can be
grouped into compound modules and so forth; the number of hierarchy levels
is not limited. The notion of simple and compound modules directly parallel
with DEVS atomic and coupled models. There is a separate topology description
language for defining compound module types. The language has a simple
syntax, yet it is very powerful: for example, it is possible to define
a hypercube network with the size as parameter. A graphical topology
editor is also available.
Simple modules are the active components in the model; their code executes
quasi in parallel (they are implemented with lightweight processes or
coroutines.) Simple module code is written in C++, using the simulation
class library. Messages can contain arbitrarily complex data structures.
Messages can be sent either directly to their destination or through a gate
(to the destination given in the topology description.)
Platforms:
~~~~~~~~~~
Unix, Win95/NT, DOS (with DJGPP or BC3.1).
Additional recommended/optional sw: gcc, bison, Tcl/Tk (Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 or later),
gnuplot, Turbo Vision, PVM3.
The program is available in source.
License:
~~~~~~~~
Free for non-profit use; otherwise, contact the author.
Author:
~~~~~~~
Andras Varga
Dept. of Telecommunications
Technical University of Budapest
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From: Jamie Marconi <marc9442@uidaho.edu>
Subject: HummingBird 0.2.0 - A Distributed Intrusion Detection System
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:58:41 GMT
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Announcing the Release of
HummingBird 0.2.0
March 27, 1998
We are pleased to announce the alpha release of HummingBird, version 0.2.0.
HummingBird is still in a fairly early stage of development, but we are
looking to expand the number of users, testers, and developers.
What is HummingBird?
- -------------------------------------
HummingBird is a distributed component for any Intrusion Detection
System. Its intent is to share security information with any networked host.
Activity logs are gathered into a common format and forwarded to other hosts
or are stored in a powerful SQL database locally. Logs can be transformed
into graphical plots of activity. HummingBird facilitates the detection of
light but network-wide attacks, and keeps historical data of system
status. Hummers can be organized in a hierarchy for better management and
information flow. They can also be organized as groups of equal peers. A Java
interface is supplied for alert messages. The configuration of a Hummer
is performed through a collection of web pages, and CGIs.
*Long Description/Motivation*
The trend towards a strong interdependence among networks have serious
security implications. Not only does the compromise of one network adversely
affect resources needed by others, but the compromised network may be part of
a multi-network attack targeting other systems. The task of identifying such
attacks in progress can be quite difficult. Researchers have found that data
sharing is needed to detect many systemic attacks involving multiple hosts
even within a single network. Systems such as DIDS and EMERALD have been
developed to gather and analyze such data network and enterprise-wide,
respectively. However, neither system addresses data sharing between networks
that lack central administration. HummingBird identifies some of the issues
that need to be addressed if cooperative intrusion detection using data
sharing between distinct sites is to become a viable option, and provides a
set of requirements for designing such a system. A formal model meeting these
requirements has been developed, and a subset of the model has been
implemented as a functional cooperative data sharing system. This is
HummingBird.
Where can I obtain HummingBird?
- -------------------------------------
The HummingBird Web page (http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~hummer) contains all
relevant information about the system.
The source package for HummingBird version 0.2.0 is available at:
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~hummer/releases/hum-A-0.2.0.tar.gz
A daily snapshot of the development tree is available at:
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~hummer/releases/hum-A-snap.tar.gz
Why should I use HummingBird?
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If you are a system administer running several UNIX based computer systems
and you would like to have a centralized and filtered log collection
process.
or
If you are a running a single UNIX box and would like to keep track of your
system logs, and would also like to see a graphical representation of the
data.
or
If you're interested in maintaining a communication network of security
relevant activity about your computer systems with other networks of
computers.
or
If you're worried about large or small scale attacks on several your hosts
simultaneously.
or
Security detection that we haven't thought about.
What platforms are supported?
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Platforms that have reported running HummingBird are:
FreeBSD 2.x; Pentium
HPUX 9.x, 10.x; HPPA
Linux 2.x, Slackware 2.x, 3.x, RedHat 4.0, 5.0; i486
Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1; Sparc, i386
What do I need to run HummingBird?
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HummingBird uses several software systems at compile time and at run time.
The following are a list of those software:
- - GNU C++ 2.7.x - ftp:/prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
- - Perl 5.x - http://language.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz
- - JDK 1.1 - http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/index.html
- - PostgreSQL ODBMS - ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-6.3.1.tar.gz
- - CGI.pm - http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/
- - GD.pm - http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/distribution/software/WWW/GD.html
- - Netscape Navigator - http://www.netscape.com
Changes since last release:
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HummingBird Visualization Tool
HummingBird Peer Groups
Re-organization of the configuration web pages.
Hummer Kill File
Integrity, and Cooperation Levels
Know Problems:
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The active list of problems or bugs can be found at:
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~hummer/html/bugs.html
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We are looking forward to advancing the HummingBird System through new users,
and their help with development of the product.
Thanks for your support,
The HummingBird Team
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