Linux-Announce Digest #504, Volume #3 Sun, 6 Jun 99 12:13:42 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Red Hat coming to Metro Detroit Linux User Group ("Christopher Bibbs")
RadioActive 0.4 - X/GTK based radio application (ERDI Gergo)
Enoch 0.5 Linux distribution released, 0.6 close ("Akos Malone")
LOCAL: Southern Tier of New York Linux User Group meeting (STNY LUG) ("Jeremy Impson
(Not Simpson)")
genparse 0.3 - command line parser generator (Michael Borella)
GRPN v1.1.0 - An RPN Calculator with X / GTK gui. (Paul Wilkins)
CONFERENCE: Ottawa Linux Symposium: Announcement ("Andrew J. Hutton")
ADMIN/WANTED: New moderator for comp.os.linux.announce (Mikko Rauhala)
Bastille Linux distribution ("J. Lasser")
Interface code for Printing HOWTO compatibility database (Grant Taylor)
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From: "Christopher Bibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Red Hat coming to Metro Detroit Linux User Group
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 12:29:06 GMT
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This month's meeting on June 15th will feature a discussion with
representatives from Red Hat. They will be discussing their plans to move
Linux into more corporate environments and will be listening to our
feedback. Bring suggestions and business cards.
As always, the meeting will be held at the offices of Silicon Graphics Inc.
at 39001 West 12 Mile road, Farmington Hills. The building is on the
southeast corner of 12 Mile road, just east of Haggerty. Door open
typically at 6:45 and the meeting will start close to 7. The door must be
locked shortly after so please arrive on time.
Due to size restrictions we are asking all attendees to RSVP to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Bibbs
MDLUG Organizer
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From: ERDI Gergo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RadioActive 0.4 - X/GTK based radio application
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:42:44 GMT
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RadioActive is a small X/GTK and command-line based radio application for
use with Video4Linux-compatible tuner hardware. The driver code is partly
based on GRadio.
It is available at
http://cactus.rulez.org/radioactive/
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From: "Akos Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enoch 0.5 Linux distribution released, 0.6 close
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:40:42 GMT
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I would like to annouce a new Linux distribution which I am
a beta tester and supporter of. It has very good ideas, such
as an autobuild proccess and five different and separately
compiled builds for different types of intel/x86 processors!
It is based on GLIBC2.1 and is being worked on by
Daniel Robbins from the award-winning Stampede Linux
group. It also has many features from Stampede Linux.
0.5 requires a hard installation process, and it also requires
a linux kernel to be provided. Release 0.6 will be out very
soon and will include many things, including a kernel. I do
not know yet if the install process will be changed around.
But an install process should follow soon. The current package
system is simply tars which have been passed through bz2 as
well, for the maximum package compression. A package
system may follow soon...
Please visit: http://www.swcp.com/~drobbins/enoch/
The page should be updated tonight and should have
frequent updates from this time.
Best Reguards,
Akos M Malone
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From: "Jeremy Impson (Not Simpson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Southern Tier of New York Linux User Group meeting (STNY LUG)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:38:02 GMT
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[Please feel free to pass this to anyone you think may be interested.]
This is an announcement regarding the next meeting of the Southern Tier
of New York Linux User Group (STNY LUG). STNY LUG holds meetings on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. The second Tuesday is a
completely informal affair held at a local restaurant. The fourth
Tuesday meeting is an equally informal (but slightly less chaotic) affair
held a local business office or meeting hall.
The next meeting will be the "social" meeting held at a local
restaurant (see below). There will be no set topic, but you
are encouraged to come with questions and comments in mind.
The rest of the session will be the same old thing: laughing, eating, and
talking about all things computer, especially about Linux and Open Source
software.
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 1999
Time: 7 pm
Where: Kristofer's Restaurant on Main St. (Rte 17C), Endicott, NY
Directions:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=1224+Campville+Rd&csz=Endicott%2C+NY+13760&Get+Map=Get+Map
Come with ideas for future LUG activities, or with problems you are having with
your home/work system!
The STNY LUG web site can be viewed here:
http://www.stnylug.org
We also have a mailing list. Send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
with a message of "subscribe lugnuts".
- --Jeremy Impson
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Jeremy Impson Linux, Perl, and Network geek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://source.syr.edu/~jdimpson
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From: Michael Borella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: genparse 0.3 - command line parser generator
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:53:46 GMT
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Genparse is a generic command line parser generator. From simple and
concise specification file, you can define the command line parameters
and switches that you would like to be able to pass to your program.
Genparse creates the C code of the parser for you, which you can then
compile as a separate file and link with your program.
This version adds a few new minor features. The code was reorganized
somewhat, and some bug fixes applied.
You may find it at http://www.borella.net/mike/Software
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Wilkins)
Subject: GRPN v1.1.0 - An RPN Calculator with X / GTK gui.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:57:10 GMT
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Hi,
This is to announce a new version (1.1.0) of GRPN.
GRPN is a RPN calculator for the X Window system built using the GIMP Toolkit
(GTK). GRPN works with real numbers, complex numbers, matrices, and complex
matrices. Numbers can be displayed in 4 different radix modes, and complex
numbers can be displayed in either Cartesian or polar form.
GRPN is published under the GNU GPL.
Changes from v1.0.4: Added an option to specify the font, added a few
commands, and various small bug fixes.
Download: ftp://wilkins.ne.mediaone.net/pub/grpn-1.1.0.tar.gz
Homepage: http://wilkins.ne.mediaone.net/grpn.html
Enjoy,
- -Paul
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From: "Andrew J. Hutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CONFERENCE: Ottawa Linux Symposium: Announcement
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:05:37 GMT
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First Annual, Ottawa Linux Symposium
July 22-24th, 1999
We are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS).
OLS is an event for technical Linux admins and Linux developers. It will
be held in Ottawa from July 22-24th.
We have full abstracts and show details available on our web site at
http://www.ottawalinuxsymposium.org/
Our speakers include such Industry notables as:
Alan Cox (Building #3)
Our Keynote Speaker
Alex deVries (The Puffin Group)
Linux on PA RISC
Phil Schwan (The Puffin Group,and Seagate Technology)
InterMezzo - A prototype Distributed Filesystem for Linux.
Zach A. Brown (Red Hat Software)
Hoser FTPD - An exercise in optimizing network servers.
Jes Sorensen (CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
Inside the 2.2 Kernel - Programming Tutorial
Jamal Hadi Salim (Nortel Networks)
IP QOS Tutorial (Quality of Service) - Controlling the network
data flow.
Stephane Eranian (Hewlett-Packard)
Porting Linux to IA-64
Miguel de Icaza (GNOME Support)
Miguel Talks about Gnome
Michael C. Richardson (Solidum Systems)
Drinking from the Fire Hose - Optimizing the Network
Nathan Laredo (Stradis Inc.)
"Will Code for Hardware" - Supporting the Unsupported and
Getting Cool Toys
Richard Guy Briggs (Free S/WAN)
Free S/WAN - IpSEC for Linux
Mike Shaver (Mozilla.org)
Inside the Lizard - A Look at the Mozilla Technology and
Architecture
Werner Almesberger (EPFL ICA)
Linux in the Pocket - Linux on the Psion, the 7K Project.
Russell M. King
Porting the Linux Kernel to ARM platforms
Several of our sponsors will also be holding some very impressive
after-hours events. Including a Puffin Night Out hosted by Ottawa's own
Puffin Group. Check out the web site for more details!
"In a year rapidly filling with Linux shows in the US, it's great to see
a show in Canada as well, and especially one with such a solid technical
focus", comments Mike Shaver the `head of developer relations' at Mozilla.org.
Response has been excellent so far, we have limited space so register
soon! This will be THE hacker show to be at this year. Let's make it a
great one.
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Achilles - Linux Support, Pre-Installed Workstations & Servers
Sponsor & Host of the Ottawa Linux Symposium, July 22-24th, 1999
http://www.ottawalinuxsymposium.org/ for more information.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikko Rauhala)
Subject: ADMIN/WANTED: New moderator for comp.os.linux.announce
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:07:21 GMT
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Greetings
For various reasons I don't have enough time or energy to properly
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The moderator should be sure that he has enough time to handle the
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A good network connection is, of course, a plus, but mainly as a
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I will provide the new moderator with some advice, if necessary,
and the cola moderating tool, pycola, written by Lars Wirzenius,
my predecessor.
Please reply directly to me if you think you'd be suitable for the
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From: "J. Lasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bastille Linux distribution
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:56:04 GMT
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June 3, 1999
Work on the Bastille Linux distribution is commencing!
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[ I'll be at the USENIX Technical Conference in Monterey the second half
of next week (the 9th through the 11th), and will be leading a Secure
Linux BOF Thursday night from 7 to 8 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend;
the Bastille Linux distribution will be the primary topic for
discussion, but I welcome other bits too. ]
The company formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, has kindly
provided a website and FTP site for our project at:
http://www.bastille-linux.org/
(and ftp.bastille-linux.org as well).
Right now, that page has the (very!) preliminary version of our
development roadmap and a link to:
http://lists.bastille-linux.org/mailman/listinfo
where our mailing lists are run.
We currently have two mailing lists: Bastille-linux-announce, a
moderated list for announcements regarding the project, and
Bastille-linux-discuss, an unmoderated list for discussion of the
project.
To subscribe to the announcement list, please visit the above website or
send a message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with 'subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the body of the message (no quotes).
To subscribe to the discussion list, please send the above message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The announce list is NOT subscribed to the discussion list, so please
subscribe to both if you're so inclined. If you wish to subscribe to the
digest version of the list, it's probably simplest to subscribe directly
from:
http://lists.bastille-linux.org/mailman/listinfo
The mailing lists are archived at:
http://lists.bastille-linux.org/pipermail/bastille-linux-discuss/
and
http://lists.bastille-linux.org/pipermail/bastille-linux-announce/
Our distribution is aimed primarily at individual users who are less
knowledgeable about security than experts would be. By securing the
default configuration, inexperienced users will be able to run secure
services without having to become security gurus.
The target for our first distribution is admins who distribute CDs to
users who are responsible for their own systems. This will be useful
in, say, universities, so that admins like myself can hand a Linux CD to
a user without entering a state of complete and utter panic, as well as
in corporations without strong IS control of all PC resources.
User-administered systems are not our only target; we intend our
distribution to be useful to experienced administrators running
single-purpose secure servers and to home users for whom security has
traditionally been an afterthought.
For reasons outlined in our project roadmap (available at our homepage)
our distribution will be based on Red Hat Linux v6.0.
Currently, I'm looking for leaders for the following aspects of the
project:
- - 'Gimme' fixes: All the easy, simple, turn SUID off or change
config file fixes which should be completed immediately. I need
an individual willing to merge our several lists of such
problems, create a checklist, and coordinate individuals' fixed
packages. I (and, I'm sure, others) will be more than happy to
actually produce the fixed packages, but a coordinator is
needed.
- - 'Harden' script: We have a 'harden' script or two at our
disposal which need to be adapted to our environment and the
needs of our users. These scripts need to be assessed, and their
useful parts unified into a single harden script which can be
run immediately following an install.
- - Cryptography: We intend to make strong cryptography a meaningful
part of the distribution. This includes SSH, S/WAN, PGP, and
other useful tools. We need to compile a list of useful crypto
parts and oversee the creation of packages for these programs.
- - New Tools: We need a front-end to make kickstart installs more
easily configured to not run unnecessary daemons and to install
a more tightly-controlled set of packages. I envision a
front-end to create useful Kickstart files meeting specific
criteria. A back-end tool, mkkickstart, already does some of
what we need, but we should make this accessible to non-experts.
- - Other Tools: Many other security tools exist from which Bastille
Linux could benefit. These need to be examined, packaged, and
integrated into our distribution.
- - Installer: We need a couple of (mostly minor) changes to the
Red Hat install program, including the ability to include the
kickstart file on CDs, to make installation simpler in certain
environments.
- - Auditing: We need a list of criteria for auditing source code
for the kernel and applications, and an individual to maintain
a checklist for what has been audited. This way, we actually
have some records as to what has been fixed or changed, and
what may not be secure. (I don't expect all of this to be done
for the 1.0 release, but there's no time like the present to
get started.) The Linux Security Audit project mailing list is
quite useful, and the auditing coordinator is expected to work
closely with the LSAP folk. The LSAP FAQ can be found at
http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk./~security/
- - Standards: While not our highest priority for the 1.0 release,
we should track applicable standards as closely as possible.
This means attempting compliance with the LSB project, as it
turns out new standards, and (if we can manage), whatever sorts
of distribution-level Posix stuff we need to do. (Using the
Bash 2.0 shell, for example, as opposed to the 1.x version,
based on 2.0's nearly complete Posix compliance. The standards
coordinator is expected to try to keep abreast of existing
standards and to track our compliance with them. This includes
various security standards, such as the Controlled Access
Protection Profile (NSA's C2-equivalent PP). If deemed
necessary, we could split the standards into security standards
and other standards, so that they could be coordinated more
easily.
- - Documentation: We need to, at a minimum, produce a detailed list
of changes in our distribution from a stock Red Hat 6
distribution, and to produce user-level documentation for any
tools we build or modify. Somebody needs to keep track of these
changes and find folks to document them.
- - Updates: Once our v1.0 is released, somebody will need to
produce fixes for new holes found and to make announcements
regarding our fixes.
- - Web: We need folks willing to keep the web site up-to-date,
preferably by writing some tools to automate as much as possible
what changes have been or need to be made. Thanks to Ben Woodard
at VA Linux Systems, soon we'll have our distribution accessible
through CVS and we'll have a bug-tracking package installed at
the website. We need to make this info as useful and as
presentable as possible.
- - QA: We need somebody willing to hold _somebody_, _anybody_
responsible for fixing the bugs reported through our bug
tracking package. This may mean fixing it by oneself if the
appropriate maintainer is not willing or not able to do so, or
it may mean tracking me down and making _me_ do it. :-)
This is, of course, a lot of work. In addition to all of this, I intend
to personally be the overall coordinator of all these functions, to
provide a beta-test site for the project, and to be liaison with other
Linux distributions.
This brings up the question of our relationship with other
distributions. I doubt that Red Hat will be interested in much of our
work, but I intend to keep in communication with them, especially on
security-related issues. Although our distribution is not going to be
based on Debian, we are working from a common code base, for the most
part, and I would like to share fixes with them directly.
Finally, there are several other secure Linux projects in development.
kha0s Linux and the (as-yet-unnamed) Secure Linux distribution project
coordinated by Le Reseau just starting development and aimed squarely at
servers, and to build it from the ground up. This is a very important
project, but it differs from ours in that our system is intended for
general use by a relatively unschooled public. We plan on closely
coordinating with the project hosted by Le Reseau (refereed by Rik van
Riel) as much as possible. The kha0s Linux project appears to be
dormant, but we will attempt to coordinate with them as well.
Several other groups, including the TrinityOS folk, Chris Schanzle's
group at NIST, and Kurt Seifried's Rebar for RedHat project have all
done work on securing Red Hat Linux-based distributions. Those folk are
all (I believe) on the list, and I look forward to integrating their
work into our own. Mr. Seifried in particular has suggested that we
merge our efforts, and we look forward to his participation in our
mutual project.
As I have already said, this is a lot of work. However, I truly believe
it's important work, and based on the number of people who seem willing
to work on it, I think that most folk agree. Now it's time to prove we
care by doing the work.
Please feel free to contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you wish to take on any
of the leadership roles outlined above. Please include a brief list of
your qualifications on the off-chance that more than one person wants
any particular job. I regret that my decisions on areas of
responsibility may appear arbitrary, but we must get this project
underway.
Security is, among many other things, an iterative process; as there
will always be new layers of security enhancements, we merely need to be
open to learning from our mistakes. (Security is also a relative term:
secure as compared to what and for what purpose are questions we'll do
our best to answer as well.)
Thank you for taking the time to read this excessively long message, and
thank you in advance for your participation and response. Thanks
especially to Alan Paller and Rob Kolstad at the SANS institute for
supporting this work, to my boss Andy Johnston at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for allowing me to do this on company
time, and to Ben Woodard over at VA Linux Systems for making our
Internet Presence a reality and coordinating huge portions of this work.
Jon Lasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interface code for Printing HOWTO compatibility database
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:04:25 GMT
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This is really two related announcements - a call for action by
everyone running kernel 2.2 with a printer, and the announcement of
some code:
- The Printing HOWTO's compatibility database needs autoprobe info;
if anyone with a 2.2 kernel and a printer could report the contents
of their /proc/parport/0/autoprobe file to me or plug it into the
web site, that would be very helpful. The URL is below...
- The database now has companion code suitable for use in printer
configuration tools. It should be fairly straightforward to write
a completely automatic printer configuration utility.
The example code demonstrates loading the database into a set of
Perl data structures and using them to calculate driver commands
based on user input or autoprobe results (!). There is a link to
the Perl and some documentation at the URL below.
The list itself is at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
or http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
It currently contains about 225 printers.
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Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
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