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June <I>Linux Journal</I>
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<P>
The June issue of <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/"><I>Linux
Journal</I></A> will be hitting the newsstands May 8.
The focus of this issue is Connectivity with
articles on setting up PLIP, NFS and NIS, using Linux with the PalmPilot,
a user-friendly GUI for PPP and much more. Check out the
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue50/index.html">Table of Contents</A>.
To subscribe to <I>Linux Journal</I>, click <A
HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/ljsuborder.html">here</A>.
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Linux in the News
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<ul>
<li>The <A HREF="http://www.linuxresources.com/npr.html">transcript</A> of the
April 8 "All Things Considered" interview on National Public radio can be found on
the <A HREF="http://www.linuxresources.com/">Linux Resources</A> web site.
<li>On April 17 NPR's "Science Friday" did a <A
HREF="http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html">
story</A> on free software featuring Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond.
<li>Here's an article about Linux worth having a look at:
<A HREF="http://www.gihyo.co.jp/SD/pacific/index.html">
http://www.gihyo.co.jp/SD/pacific/index.html</A>
<li><A HREF="./xfree.html">XFree86 Postion Statement on X11R6.4 Licensing</A>
<li>Check out <A HREF="http://www.pcquest.com/apr98/">PC Quest's April
issue</A>, especially
the editorial. This is a curtain raiser for their May issue which will
focus on Linux.
<li>Linux is being used by the Post Office to sort the mail. Read John Taves'
<A HREF="http://members.aa.net/~jtaves/linux.htm">article</A>.
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Scientific Software Packaging Feedback
</H3>
<P>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:19:12 -0700 (MST)
<P>
<B>Purpose?</B>
<P>
We at Kachina Technologies, Inc. are very excited about the tremendously
increasing popularity of our SAL (Scientific Application on Linux) web site.
Based on encouraging user feedbacks, we want to go the extra mile to provide
more services to the Linux and the Scientific and Engineering communities.
<P>
<B>What is SAL?</B>
<P>
SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) web sites collect thousands of
software links for scientists, engineers, and Linux ethusiasts. There is no
doubt that SAL has become one of the most important, popular, and exciting
software resources for the Linux and UNIX community. SAL was developed by
Dr. Herng-Jeng Jou, along with many others at Kachina Technologies, Inc.
<P>
While most system/network level applications are packaged by Linux
distributors and provided on their CD-ROM distributions, most commonly used
free scientific packages are still provided in source code format. Although
many users contributed packages which are often found in /contrib directories
on Linux distributors' FTP sites, lack of version tracking and centralized
control hinder the appreciation of these individual efforts. We are facinated
by the team work and coordination of GNU/Debian Linux people and want to
pursue the same goal in software packaging for the Scientific and Engineering
community.
<P>
Our initial goal is to archive Debian (.deb), RedHat (.rpm), and simple
binary tree (.tgz) used by many distributions including the popular Slackware
distribution. At the same time, SAL's website will function as a repository
and users can download the packages and install them on their systems
immediately.
<P>
However, we'd like to listen to your opinions on the best policies and
procedures to get this job done correctly.
<P>
Please tell us what scientific and engineering software (those with free
source codes that are available of course) you would like to see packaged.
<P>
Please email us at sal@kachinatech.com and simply include:
<ol>
<li>Software name(s)
<li>Preferred packaging format (RPM, DEB, or others)
</ol>
Although this is just a survey, we are quite serious and excited about
doing this. The established packages will be available through SAL.
<P>
Currently, there are 14 SAL sites installed worldwide, and their URLs are:
<PRE>
Austria http://nswt.tuwien.ac.at/scicomp/sal/
Finland http://sal.jyu.fi/
Germany http://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/lsoft/
Italy http://chpc06.ch.unito.it/linux/
Japan http://ec.tmit.ac.jp/koyama/linux/SAL/
Poland http://www.tuniv.szczecin.pl/linux/doc/other/SAL
Portugal http://www.idite-minho.pt/SAL/
Russia http://www.sai.msu.su/sal/
South Africa http://web.ee.up.ac.za/sal/
South Korea http://infosite.kordic.re.kr/sal
Spain http://ceu.fi.udc.es/SAL/
Turkey http://sal.raksnet.com.tr
United Kingdom http://www.ch.qub.ac.uk/SAL/
USA http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM
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We welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions. Please send your
messages (including mirroring requests) to sal@kachinatech.com
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Herng-Jeng Jou, <A
HREF="mailto:hjjou@KachinaTech.COM">hjjou@KachinaTech.COM</A><BR>
Team SAL, Kachina Technologies, Inc.
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MAILING-LIST: Linux Speech Recognition
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<P>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:19:12 -0700 (MST)<BR>
All interested in speech recognition software under Linux are invited to
join this new mailing list. The emphasis is on (though discussion is not
limited to) finding a means of porting preexisting applications
(especially DragonDictate-style ones, or possibly NaturallySpeaking-style)
to Linux, rather than developing one from scratch.
<P>
To subscribe, remove the spaces from the following address and send mail
to:
<P>
ddlinux-request @ arborius.net
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; <A
HREF="mailto:info@shore.net">info@shore.net</A>
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SAS for Linux
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<P>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:19:12 -0700 (MST)<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.sas.com/">SAS</A> is a powerful and popular reporting, analysis,
and application development system. The <A
HREF="http://pw1.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html">SAS for Linux</A> site
is dedicated to the
support of SAS on the Linux operating system. Tune in there for
information, news, to voice your opinion, and contribute to the cause.
Of particular interest is the SAS User Linux Interest Profile, a survey
to measure the amount of interest (or not) for SAS on Linux. Stop on
by!
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Karsten M. Self, <A HREF="mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com">kmself@ix.netcom.com</A>
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New Pages for Linux Users
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<P>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:19:12 -0700 (MST)<BR>
Here's a page that could prove worthwhile for newbies:
<A HREF="http://home1.gte.net/henryw/basic/index.html">
"Basic Linux Training"</A>
<P>
Here's another new site site dedicated to Lunix. Find links to RPMS,
X windows managers, HOWTOS and more. Check it out at:<BR>
<A HREF="http://vdpower.gamesmania.com/demoreviews/linux/linux.html">
http://vdpower.gamesmania.com/demoreviews/linux/linux.html</A>
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The KDE Free Qt Foundation
</H3>
<P>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:50:59 GMT<BR>
The KDE project and Troll Tech AS, the creators of Qt, are pleased
to announce the founding of the "KDE Free Qt Foundation".
The purpose of this foundation is to guarantee the availability of
Qt for free software development now and in the future.
<P>
The foundation will control the rights to the Qt Free Edition and
ensure that current and future releases of Qt will be available for
free software development at all times.
released under the BSD license.
<P>
We believe the founding of the KDE Free Qt Foundation to be an
ground-breaking step, helping to usher in a new era of software
development, allowing the KDE project, the free software community,
all free software developers as well as commercial software
developers to prosper in a mutually supportive fashion.
<P>
For more information:<BR>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben, The KDE Project, <A
HREF="mailto:wuebben@kde.org">wuebben@kde.org</A><BR>
Eirik Eng, Troll Tech CEO, <A HREF="mailto:Eirik.Eng@troll.no">
Eirik.Eng@troll.no </A>
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Linux Resources -- we need your help
</H3>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:06:04 GMT<BR>
Linux Resources is a community effort brought together by Specialized
Systems Consultants (SSC), publishers of <I>Linux Journal</I>, to
promote the Linux operating system.
<P>
We strive to produce the most informative one-stop Linux resource. We do
that with the help of many enthusiastic individuals and companies who
produce selected content for Linux Resources. If you or your company
would like to contribute content or maintain a page within Linux Resources
please e-mail us at <A
HREF="mailto:webmaster@ssc.com">webmaster@ssc.com</A>.
<P>
After browsing through <A HREF="http://www.linuxresources.com/">
http://www.linuxresources.com/</A> please e-mail us
and let us know if it addresses your needs and if not, tell what we
can add or do differently. For example, perhaps there are other exisiting
sites that you feel we should incorporate into Linux Resources -- e-mail
us!
<P>
Last, Linux Resources is advertising free. Let us know if this
is an important factor for you. Again, we want Linux Resources to be
*your* Linux resource. Please let us know how we can be of assistance.
<P>
For more information:<BR>
Carlie Fairchild, <A HREF="mailto:carlie@ssc.com">carlie@ssc.com</A>,
Linux Journal Sales and Marketing
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Open Source Journal, the Magazine for Free Software
</H3>
<P>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:19:03 GMT<BR>
The Free Software Union is proud to announce the release of the premiere
issue of the 'Open Source Journal, the Magazine for Free Software'.
<P>
The Journal is volunteer written and produced, and available free from
the Web at:<BR>
<P>
<A HREF="http://osj.fslu.org/">http://osj.fslu.org/</A><BR>
<P>
The Free Software Union ("Free Software Lovers Unite!" = FSLU) is a
democratic, non-profit group dedicated to the Free Software/Open-Source
community.
<P>
For more information:<BR>
Braddock Gaskill, <A
HREF="mailto:braddock@braddock.com">braddock@braddock.com</A>
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Linux Conference Announcement
</H3>
<P>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:24:54 +0200<BR>
The first Linux conference in Denmark will be held by Denmark's
<A HREF="http://www.dkuug.dk/">Unix User Group</A> and
<A HREF="http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/">Skåne/Sjælland Linux User Group
</A> May 16, 1998. Among the main speakers are
Jesper Pedersen, the creator of the Dotfile Generator, and Image
Scandiavia, a large ISP in Denmark using Linux as their main platform.
Moreover, experienced Linux users will help novice users by installing
Linux on their computers.
<P>
The conference has a homepage is at <A
HREF="http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/konference.html">http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/konference.html</A>,
where you can find the programme and more information. Official
languages are Swedish and Danish.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Kenneth Geisshirt, <A HREF="mailto:kge@kb.dk">kge@kb.dk</A>, The Royal Library<BR>
Linux konference i København den 16. maj 1998
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JCam - Digital Camera Software for Linux (with Java)!
</H3>
<P>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:52:50 GMT<BR>
JCam - a single software program for (almost) all OSes and
(almost) all Digital Cameras ...
<P>
The first public release of JCam is now available from "www.jcam.com",
featuring support for Digital Still Cameras from Epsom, Casio, Kodak and
coming soon, Fuji, Samsung and Olympus.
<P>
JCam is currently available for Win95, WinNT and Linux 2.0 ... future
versions will offer - subject to demand - support for Mac, OS-2, PPC
and a range of other Unices. JCam requires Java 1.1 to be installed
on the host machine; later versions will be available bundled with the
JRE, simplifying installation for non-Java users.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
<A HREF="mailto:info@jcam.com">info@jcam.com</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.jcam.com/">http://www.jcam.com/</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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GTK+ 1.0.0 GUI Library Released!
</H3>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:03:14 GMT<BR>
The GTK+ Team is proud to announce the release of GTK+ 1.0.0. GTK+,
which stands for the GIMP Toolkit, is a library for creating graphical
user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small,
efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented
approach.
<P>
The official ftp site is:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
<P>
The official web site is:
http://www.gtk.org/
<P>
A mailing list is located at:
gtk-list@redhat.com
<P>
To subscribe: mail -s subscribe gtk-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
(Send mail to gtk-list-request@redhat.com with the subject "subscribe")
<P>
GTK+ was written by Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, and Josh MacDonald.
Many enhancements and bug fixes have been made by the GTK+ Team. See
the AUTHORS file in the distribution for more information.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
The GTK+ Team, <A HREF="mailto:gtk-list@redhat.com">gtk-list@redhat.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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Poppy 1.3 - Simple POP3 mail program to view/delete/save messages
</H3>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:51:59 GMT<BR>
This is the announcement for Version 1.3 of Poppy. It is a simple Perl
script that allows you to view only the headers of messages from a POP3
server and then allows you to selectively view, save, or delete each
message. It is ideal for limited resource systems.
<P>
A simple perl script to retrieve mail headers from a POP3
server and individually view, save or delete them. Requires
perl. Simple mail reader which relies on the POP3 server
to do most the work. A good use is to delete or to skip
over huge emails on a POP3 server when on a slow link.
You may also view only a specified number of lines from
a message to see if you would like to download the whole
message.
<P>
To download:<BR>
<A HREF="http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html">
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html</A>
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Chris Bagwell, Fujitsu Network Communications,
<A HREF="mailto:cbagwell@fujitsu-fnc.com">cbagwell@fujitsu-fnc.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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juju/juen - uu/xx/Base64/BinHex-Decoder/Encoder
</H3>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:48:53 GMT<BR>
The first release of juju has been announced. IT is yet another
uu- and Base64-decoder, which also decodes xxencoded and BinHexed data, and
includes the following features:
<ul>
<li>Autodetection of Encoding.
<li>Merging of multiple parts.
<li>Piping data or filenames (to be decoded) towards juju is supported.
<li>It also scans complete directories for anything useful to decode.
</ul>
It sould work with MIME data as well.
<P>
Also included is juen, a similar powerful encoder, which supports
uuencoding, Base64-encoding, xxencoding and MIME.
It supports automated mailing and posting if sendmail and inews are present.
<P>
Current Version is 0.2.0, which is the first public release.
The Program is available as sourcecode only, but should compile on any
Unix platform, at least Linux ;-).
It is GPL'ed.
<P>
The Homepage of juju is: <A
HREF="http://hottemax.uni-muenster.de/~grover/juju.html">
http://hottemax.uni-muenster.de/~grover/juju.html</A>
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Christoph Gröver, <A
HREF="mailto:grover@hottemax.uni-muenster.de">grover@hottemax.uni-muenster.de</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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mon-0.37i - Service Monitoring Daemon
</H3>
<P>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:45:18 GMT<BR>
mon-037i is an extensible service monitoring daemon which can be used to monitor
network or non-network resources. Written in Perl 5, this code should
be able to run out-of-the-box on many platforms. It supports a flexible
configuration file, and can send out email, alphanumeric pages, or any
other type of alert when it detects the failure of a service. Service
monitors that come with the distribution can test ping, telnet, ftp,
smtp, http, nntp, pop3, imap, disk space, SNMP queries, and arbitrary
TCP services.
<P>
<A
HREF="http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/">http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/</A>
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/mon-0.37i.tar.gz">
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/mon-0.37i.tar.gz</A>
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Jim Trocki, <A
HREF="mailto:trockij@transmeta.com">trockij@transmeta.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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newsfetch-1.2 - pull news via NNTP to a mailbox
</H3>
<P>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:54:53 GMT<BR>
newsfetch: Most Compact and Powerful Utility to download the news from
an NNTP server, filter and stores in the mailbox format.
<P>
Available from
http://ulf.wep.net/newsfetch.html
<P>
New version of newsfetch (1.2) is uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
<P>
newsfetch-1.2.tar.gz
newsfetch-1.2-1.i386.rpm
newsfetch-1.2-1.src.rpm
<P>
available in <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/">
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/</A>
and in proper place (/pub/Linux/system/news/readers) when they move the
files. New version is available in .tar.gz and .rpm format.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
<A HREF="mailto:ymotiwala@hss.hns.com">ymotiwala@hss.hns.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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Mesa/Vista Project Collaboration Intranet for Linux
</H3>
<P>
Warwick, RI -- April 14, 1998 -- Mesa Systems Guild, Inc. announced
today the immediate availability of Mesa/Vista for the Linux operating
system. Mesa's flagship product line, Mesa/Vista provides web-enabled
project management automation for development teams who need to
collaborate with access to all data related to their project.
<P>
Mesa/Vista provides a way to tie all of the project management and
product development tools already in use together on the web so that the
information can be accessed using a web browser on any platform, from
any location. This enables project managers to make better, faster
decisions based on the most up-to-date information and increases the
productivity of development engineers by providing immediate access to
information they need to complete their tasks.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mesasys.com/">http://www.mesasys.com/</A> <BR>
Maribeth McNair, Mesa Systems Guild, Inc.
<A HREF="mailto:mbm@mesasys.com">mbm@mesasys.com</A>
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Blender 3d beta release
</H3>
<P>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:20:29 GMT<BR>
NeoGeo is happy to announce the Beta release of a Linux and FreeBSD
version of Blender.
We expect the first Beta users to help us complete testing and evaluating,
especially for the various PC configurations.
An official version will be released 4 to 6 weeks later.
<P>
Blender is the freeware 3D package - up until now only available for SGI -
that has become very popular with students, artists and at universities.
Being the in-house software of a high quality animation studio, it has
proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument.
Use Blender to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations,
business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can
easily build and manage complex environments.
The renderer is reliable and extremely fast. All basic animation principles
are well implemented.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.neogeo.nl/">http://www.neogeo.nl/</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:blender@neogeo.nl">blender@neogeo.nl</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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consd 1.0: virtual console management daemon
</H3>
<P>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:48:06 GMT<BR>
<P>
consd manages virtual consoles silently in the background. It starts and
kills gettys there depending on how many gettys are just sitting around
and waiting (and wasting ressources). Usually, consd ensures there's always
one (and only one) getty waiting for someone to login. The virtual consoles
with lower numbers are preferred.
<P>
consd does not interfere with gettys started by init.
<P>
As always - if you can't find it on the ftp servers listed below, try the
'incoming' directories.
<A
HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/">http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/</A>
in the file called consd-1.0.tgz (12KB).
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Frank Gockel, <A HREF="mailto:gockel@etecs4.uni-duisburg.de">
gockel@etecs4.uni-duisburg.de</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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dancing_linux - a rendered 3D-Linux-animation / eyecatcher
</H3>
<P>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:06:23 GMT<BR>
The animation shows a nice linux-logo, consisting of the
five letters and additional artwork. Everything is in motion and
is twisting around (glass-, metal-, and light-effects!).
It has a black background and is VERY suitable as an eyecatcher
for shopwindows or your own linux-box.
<PRE>
=================================================
Format: *.flc movie
Resolution: 320*200, 8bit color
120 frames (about 20 fps)
Renderplatform: Linux-Povray 3.01 (of course)
Rendertime: 15 min/frame on a P133
=================================================
</PRE>
The movie may also be viewed with xanim, but it looks _much_ better
fullscreen! I included John Remyn's SVGA-Player "flip" (binary).
<P>
The animation is available at:<BR>
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/logos/raytraced/dancing_linux.lsm
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/logos/raytraced/dancing_linux.tar.gz
(1.07 MB) and mirrors...
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Roland Berger robe@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
<P> <hr> <P>
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Port of InterBase Database to Linux
</H3>
<P>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:03:18 GMT<BR>
InterBase Software Corp has ported InterBase 4.0 to the Linux
platform. We plan to allow this database software to be
downloaded for free use as of April 29, 1998.
<P>
The primary download site will be <A HREF="http://www.interbase.com/">
http://www.interbase.com/</A>
<P>
In the July timeframe, we expect to release a commercial
version of InterBase 5 for Linux.
<P>
There is a monitored news group borland.public.interbase.com
available for the users of InterBase.
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Wyliam Holder, <A
HREF="mailto:wholder@interbase.com">wholder@interbase.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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SECURITY: procps 1.2.7 fixes security hole
</H3>
<P>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:18:42 GMT<BR>
A file creation and corruption bug in XConsole included in procps-X11
versions 1.2.6 and earlier has been found. To fix it, you can either
remove the XConsole program or upgrade to procps-1.2.7, available from
<A
HREF="ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/procps-1.2.7.tar.gz">
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/procps-1.2.7.tar.gz</A>
<P>
Thanks to Alan Iwi for finding the bug.
<P>
A few other bugs have been fixed in this version. Read the NEWS file
for details.
<P>
If you have Red Hat Linux or another RPM-based distribution, libc5-based
RPM packages are available from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/
and glibc-based RPM packages are available from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/
<P>
Fuller upgrade instructions for Red Hat Linux users have been given in
a separate post to redhat-announce-list@redhat.com
<P>
For more information: <BR>
Michael K. Johnson, <A
HREF="mailto:johnsonm@redhat.com">johnsonm@redhat.com</A>
<P> <hr> <P>
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