Fri Sep 14 09:48:36 DFT 2001 * gcc-3.0.1.0.exe GNU Compiler Collection http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ This is THE new distribution of the famous GNU C Compiler, and additional utilities. * openssh-2.9.2.0.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html Openssh is a package that provides a secure (encrypted, authenticated) replacement to rlogin, rcp and rsh ("the R-commands"). Openssh requires openssl as pre-requisite. Thu Sep 13 16:23:10 DFT 2001 * openssl-0.9.6.2.exe OpenSSL, Secure Sockets Layer http://www.openssl.org The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation. Wed Aug 29 10:50:12 DFT 2001 * php4_aix432-4.0.6.0.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contents of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases, and support for MySQL and PostGres is included in this binary distribution via external modules (see later).. * mrtg-2.9.17.0.exe Multi Router Traffic Grapher http://www.stat.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg/ The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. Tue Aug 28 10:30:26 DFT 2001 * Python-2.1.1.0.exe Python Scripting Language http://www.python.org Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language suitable (amongst other uses) for distributed application development, scripting, numeric computing and system testing. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic or Scheme. * mysql-3.23.40.0.exe MySQL SQL database server & client http://www.mysql.com/ Mysql is a powerful relational database. This binary distribution includes support for "Berkley" database tables, which provide a powerful replication feature. * mysql++-1.7.9.0.exe C++ API for MySql http://www.mysql.com/ C++ API for MySql. * bind-8.2.4.0.exe DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ NSAP processing was not RFC 1706 compliant. NOTE: OLD MASTER FILES NEED TO BE CORRECTED (0x added to NSAP) AND CACHE FILES REMOVED. Fixes long-standing protocol incompatibility in DNSSEC support. Avoids fwd'ing to root name servers if response will be rejected. new port/cygwin contributed by s_c_biggs@bigfoot.com. new contrib/mdnkit (V1.3) from author. new contrib/adm from official ftp site. new contrib/host from author. new contrib/dnsp from author. fixed file descriptor leak in resolver. fixed a major memory leak in the processing of dynamic updates. numerous portability improvements. numerous bug fixes. * bind-9.1.3.0.exe DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ BIND 9.1.3 is a maintenance release, containing fixes for a number of bugs in 9.1.2 but no new features. Features introduced in 9.1.0 included: - Many BIND 8 features previously unimplemented in BIND 9, including domain-specific forwarding, the $GENERATE master file directive, and the "blackhole", "dialup", and "sortlist" options - Forwarding of dynamic update requests; this is enabled by the "allow-update-forwarding" option - A new, simplified database interface and a number of sample drivers based on it; see doc/misc/sdb for details - Support for building single-threaded servers for environments that do not supply POSIX threads - New configuration options: "min-refresh-time", "max-refresh-time", "min-retry-time", "max-retry-time", "additional-from-auth", "additional-from-cache", "notify explicit" - Faster lookups, particularly in large zones. BIND 9.1 also includes experimental implementations of a number of DNS protocols extensions still under development in the IETF. These include transparent processing of unknown RR types and use of the EDNS "DNSSEC OK" bit to explicitly enable DNSSEC processing in responses. Cryptographic operations are now based on the OpenSSL library instead of DNSsafe. * postfix-1.2.102.0.exe Postfix mail system 20010228-pl03 http://www.postfix.org/ Postfix aims to be an alternative to the widely-used sendmail program. Although IBM supported the Postfix development, it abstains from control over its evolution. The goal is to have Postfix installed on as many systems as possible. To this end, the software is given away with no strings attached to it, so that it can evolve with input from and under control by its users. This release is the first official Postfix release that is not called BETA. May it help the people who cannot get BETA software past their management. * postgresql-7.1.2.0.exe PostgreSQL Data Base Management System http://www.postgreSQL.org/ Fix PL/PgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows Fix for psql backslash core dump Referential integrity permission fix Optimizer fixes pg_dump cleanups * sendmail-8.11.6.0.exe Sendmail release 8.11 http://WWW.Sendmail.ORG/ SECURITY: Fix a possible memory access violation when specifying out-of-bounds debug parameters. Problem detected by Cade Cairns of SecurityFocus. Avoid leaking recipient information in unrelated DSNs. This could happen if a connection is aborted, several mails had been scheduled for delivery via that connection, and the timeout is reached such that several DSNs are sent next. Problem noted by Dileepan Moorkanat of Hewlett-Packard. Fix a possible segmentation violation when specifying too many wildcard operators in a rule. Problem detected by Werner Wiethege. Avoid a segmentation fault on non-matching Hesiod lookups. Problem noted by Russell McOrmond of flora.ca * squid-2.4.1.0.exe SQUID Web Proxy Cache http://www.squid-cache.org/ Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems. It is free, open-source software, the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers. Squid supports: proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URL's proxying for SSL cache hierarchies ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests transparent caching WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above) extensive access controls HTTP server acceleration SNMP caching of DNS lookups Mon Aug 20 14:43:34 DFT 2001 * apache-1.3.20.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for the NCSA server version 1.3 (or 1.4). It fixes numerous bugs in the NCSA server and includes many frequently requested new features, and has an API which allows it to be extended to meet users' needs more easily. Thu Aug 9 09:29:19 DFT 2001 * gnupg-1.0.6.0.exe GNU Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. * fetchmail-5.8.14.0.exe Remote mail retrieval utility http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1). Wed Aug 8 13:20:34 DFT 2001 * procmail-3.21.exe Procmail & formail mail processing. http://www.procmail.org/ Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone. * samba-2.2.1.1.exe SAMBA, SMB client and server http://samba.org/samba/ This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. This is a minor bugfix release for 2.2.1, *NOT* security related. Thu Aug 2 10:12:32 DFT 2001 * proftpd-1.2.1.exe ProFTPD FTP Daemon http://www.proftpd.org/ This is the last version of ProFTPD, the highly configurable FTP daemon for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. NEWS: - A relatively major issue was discovered with session.groups which may cause any group-expressions inside of (DenyGroup, etc) to malfunction. This is the primary reason for the 1.2.1 release. - Default CFLAGS changed from "-g3 -O6" to "-O2" because it is reported that -O6 is highly experimental, and including debugging really isn't all the useful, as someone _really_ interested in debugging can edit Make.rules. - Defining classes without an explicit "Classes On" now generates a log warning. Thu May 3 17:45:41 DFT 2001 * perl-5.6.1.0.exe PERL scripting language runtime http://www.cpan.org/ It's the last stable release of Perl Kit. It was compiled with threads support for AIX. Manuals are available under /usr/local/man with right names instead of "__" names (cf. Carian). Some compilation problems occured and packaging required some attention... But at the end everything work well !! Wed Apr 25 15:20:10 DFT 2001 * samba-2.2.0.exe SAMBA, SMB client and server http://samba.org/samba/ This is version 2.2.0 of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell. Fri Apr 20 15:49:22 DFT 2001 * apache.mod_ssl-2.8.0.2.exe Apache Interface to OpenSSL http://www.modssl.org/ This is the corresponding mod_ssl for apache.1.3.19.0 This package allows Apache to support the SSL encryption protocol. To generate a certificate, use (or refer to) the script /usr/local/lib/mod_ssl-2.8.2/mkcert.sh Once installed, start the server with the command # apachectl startssl Wed Mar 28 17:19:27 DFT 2001 * gnu.gcc-2.95.3.0.exe GNU Compiler Collection gnu.gcc.g++-2.95.3.0.exe GNU Compiler Collection Extras gnu.gcc.info-2.95.3.0.exe GNU Compiler Info files http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ This is a new distribution of the famous GNU C Compiler, and additional utilities. It includes some updates for AIX, but they seem mostly related to 64-bit environments. These binaries are significaltly smaller than some previous releases, since it was configured with the "--disable-multilib" option. This prevents different "specialist" versions of each library from being compiled (which is not really appropriate for a binary distribution, in my opinion). I believe that there is a new release of GCC in the pipeline, so this update may not live for long... * monitor-2.1.9.0.exe Performance Monitor Program http://www.mesa.nl/download.html A new update to the indispensable "monitor" utility. Since AIX-4.3.3 has different kernel structures, I built two binaries. However both are now delivered in one LPP. The file /usr/local/bin/monitor is now a shell script that executes monitor.433 or monitor.432. Monitor is provided by Mesa Consulting. They can provide many services including technical support for all existing Open Source software. Wed Mar 28 10:26:32 DFT 2001 * apache-1.3.19.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html This binary distribution includes support for plugins using the EAPI (Extended API, for plugins) and MM, the memory manager (again for plugins). If you have an existing configuration using mod_ssl, I'd advise you to wait until we've packaged the corresponding mod_ssl version. * mysql-3.23.35.0.exe MySQL SQL database server * mysql.client-3.23.35.0.exe MySQL Client Libraries http://www.mysql.com/ Mysql is a powerful relational database. This binary distribution includes support for "Berkley" database tables, which provide a powerful replication feature. The extraction of the "client" part of MySQL into a separate LPP allows you to install the server on one backend system and have client applications distributed on other systems. The client LPP can be used with the perl/Mysql database driver or with the PHP binary distribution on this site. The 'client' LPP is an explicit pre-requisite for the server-only LPP. In other words, you can install the client without the server, but not the other way round. Fri Mar 23 09:41:51 NFT 2001 * gnuplot 3.7.1.0 The Gnuplot Plotting Utility http://www.gnuplot.org/ Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers. * procmail-3.13.1.0.exe Procmail & formail mail processing. http;//www.procmail.org/ ftp://ftp.procmail.org/pub/procmail/ Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone. * cscope-1.5.0.0.exe Text screen based source browsing tool http://cscope.sourceforge.net Cscope is very efficient in analyzing very big C/C++ source trees. It allows to find very easily symbols, functions, etc... * contrib/gnu.texinfo-4.0.0.0.exe GNU texinfo utilities http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Texinfo is a documentation system used by most of the GNU tools. Gnu tools deliver info files into /usr/local/info, and the "info" commande included in this package allows these info files to be browsed esaily. * contrib/xdiff_aix43-3.4.0.0.exe X11/Motif based file comparator and merge tool. http://reality.sgi.com/rudy/xdiff/ xdiff is a graphical utility for viewing the differences of a file and up to four revisions of that file. The text of the files is presented side by side with their differences aligned and highlighted in colour for easy identification. xdiff can be used to produce a merged version combining any or all of the differences. This binary distribution was contributed by Joris Smits. Thanks Joris! Wed Mar 14 17:56:15 NFT 2001 * gd-1.8.4.0.exe Graphics Display Library http://www.boutell.com/gd/ This version of GD supports the creation of JPEG files, along with other improvements. This binary distribution has pre-requisites on * freeware.libpng.rte (libpng-1.0.8.0.exe) * freeware.zlib.rte (zlib-1.1.3.2.exe) * freeware.xpm.rte (xpm-3.4.11.0.exe) * freeware.jpeg.rte (jpeg-6.0.2.0.exe) * freeware.freetype.rte (freetype-2.0.1.0.exe) * libpng-1.0.9.0.exe Library for PNG image format http://www.libpng.org/pub/png PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It is a widely-used image format that is replacing the "GIF" image format. This is the latest version of the PNG library. Since this lib has been linked as a shared-lib, all programs that use it may experience unexpected problems if you update an existing installation. Its happend before with libpng, applications seem to test the version of the API :( * libmng-1.0.0.0.exe Multiple-image Network Graphics Library http://www.libmng.com/ This is an implementation of a new standard for animated images, and can be considered to be an offshoot from the PNG image standard. I've no idea if any applications are using it yet... * freetype-2.0.1.0.exe FreeType, The FREE TrueType Font Engine http://www.freetype.org/ required as a prerequisite for several other tools, this is a TrueType implementation. * rrdtool-1.0.33.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Its a bit complicated at first but its quite powerful. If you use RRD-Tool, the author can be thanked by buying him a small gift on Amazon.com via his wishlist: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/wish * sendmail-8.11.3.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.11 http://www.sendmail.org/ This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. The configuration files for this distribution must be places in /etc/mail by default. The tools to build a new configuration file are in /usr/local/lib/sendmail-8.11/cf * abi-0.7.13.0.exe AbiWord-Personal Word Processor http://www.abisource.com/ This is a Word-compatible word processor for Unix. If I've understood correctly, it can read word .doc files but cannot create them (but it can create .rtf files). It has prerequisites on gtk, glib, libpng and zlib, you'll have to download and install each of these packages. This version *appears* faster than previous ones, but thats a subjective opinion... * contrib/gnu.less_aix433-3.5.8.0.exe GNU Display paginator http://www.gnu.org/software/less/ Less is a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi. Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals. This binary distribution was contributed by Joris Smits. Thanks Joris! * contrib/zsh_aix433-3.1.9.0.exe Z shell utility http://www.zsh.org/ Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh); its compatibility with the 1988 Korn shell has been gradually increasing. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh (another `custom' shell). This binary distribution was contributed by Joris Smits. Thanks Joris! Fri Mar 2 14:33:02 NFT 2001 * openssh-2.5.0.0.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html Openssh is a package that provides a secure (encrypted, authenticated) replacement to rlogin, rcp and rsh ("the R-commands"). Openssh requires openssl and EGD as pre-requisites. This Openssh delivers an rc.openssh script that can be used to replace rlogin, rsh and rcp. The R-command binaries are placed in /usr/savedir, and the commands are replaced by symbolic links to ssh or scp. If SSH is not running on the remote host, then ssh will to the normal R-commands (it knows they're in /usr/savedir). Activate this mode with the command # rc.openssh replace * contrib/mozilla-0.8.0.0 Mozilla Web Browser http://www.mozilla.org/ This binary of Mozilla was provided by Netsape (thanks Jim). The Web browser, the most important bit, works, and I haven't seen any problems with it. This bit seems solid, but maybe a bit slow. The Composer and the mail/news part cause mozilla to core-dump when they're opened. Dont do it and you'll be ok. Its big, I'm tempted to remove read permissions to *force* you all to buy the CD-Rom as the only way of getting it. This will depend on demand, and how many people have to re-start the download. I hate seeing people downloading the GCC compiler (for example) 10 times... * sudo-1.6.3.6.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html SuDo is a "delegation" tool for system administrators. SuDo can be configured to allow particular users or groups of users execute particular commands as the Super User. For example certain users can be permitted to perform a backup or a shutdown. Beware of shell-escapes in the delegated commands! For anybody upgrading from v1.5, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * perl.pdl-2.2.0.0.exe Perl Data Language Module http://pdl.perl.org * perl.gtk-0.70.5.0.exe Perl GTK+ Module http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Gtk Thses modules will be required for the next release of the Gimp, whever I get it finished... Fri Feb 23 16:20:10 NFT 2001 * monitor-2.1.8.0.exe Performance Monitor Program http://www.mesa.nl/download.html A new update to the indispensable "monitor" utility. Since AIX-4.3.3 has different kernel structures, I built two binaries. However both are now delivered in one LPP. The file /usr/local/bin/monitor is now a shell script that executes monitor.433 or monitor.432. Monitor is provided by Mesa Consulting. They can provide many services including technical support for all existing Open Source software. * lsof-4.55.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ), all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), and/or all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i). I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. * cdrtools-0.1.10.23.exe CD-Recorder burner controller (alpha) http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html This is the version 1.10-alpha23. It is thus a later release to the previously-available LPP for cdrecord that had a version number 1.9.0.0. The 1.9.0.0 binary was built from the 1.9-final sources, and I just updated this binary to handle files larger than 2GBs (for DVDs). You should dis-install cdrecord version 1.9.0.0 before installing this alpha release. Cdrecord allows cd writers to be controlled from AIX and also allows ISO filesystems to be created. With AIX-4.3.3 and later it is possible to use this tool to make bootable backup CDs with the AIX 'mkcd' command. * gnu.plotutils-2.3.0.0.exe GNU Plotting Utilities http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ The GNU plotutils package contains software for both programmers and technical users. Its centerpiece is libplot, a powerful C/C++ function library for exporting 2-D vector graphics in many file formats, both vector and raster. It can also do vector graphics animations. Besides libplot, the package contains command-line programs for plotting scientific data. Many of them use libplot to export graphics. * xkeycaps-2.46.0.0.exe XKeyCaps http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ This tool is a frontend to xmodmap, that allows keybords to be remapped easily. Some of my collegues are looking at this tool to handle euro-enabled keybords... * bull.mklpp-1.2.9.0.exe Light-LPP generation tool Mklpp is the tool I use to make all these packages. This release includes the ability to build LPPs on AIX-5L/IA64 systems, and a few bugfixes (thanks Vincenzo). Thu Feb 15 14:14:11 NFT 2001 * perl.dbd.mysql-1.22.15.0.exe Perl DBI MySql Interface module http://www.cpan.org/ This modules allow access to the MySQL database from perl. It had been a long time since I'd refreshed this module, and when a user asked me why the old one was core-dumping I was shamed into refreshing it. Watch out, the LPP-name has changed - before it was called freeware.perl.dbi.mysql.rte (now the dbi has changed to dbd, "data dase driver" instead of "database interface"). You don't *have* to disinstall the old one (since the installation paths are different), but it is recommended. * apache.auth_ldap-1.5.2.0.exe auth_ldap Module for Apache http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/ A plug-in modile for Apache to delegate access control, login and password verification to an LDAP server. This module requires the IBM ldap client libs to be installed. * db3-3.2.9.0.exe Berkeley DB from Sleepycat Software http://www.sleepycat.com/ Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides high-performance built-in database support for desktop and server applications and for information appliances. The Berkeley DB access methods include B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length records, and Queues. Berkeley DB provides full transactional support, database recovery, online backups, and separate access to locking, logging and shared memory caching subsystems. Fri Feb 2 18:00:56 NFT 2001 * php4-4.0.4.1.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contents of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases, and support for MySQL and PostGres is included in this binary distribution via external modules (see later).. This binary distribution includes the following external modules (yes, modules to a module...) : * MySql access (requires mysql.client-3.23.27.0.exe or equivalent), * PostgreSQL (requires postgresql-7.0.2.0.exe or equivalent) * GD graphics library (requires gd-1.8.3.0.exe or equivalent) * GNU Internationalization (requires gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe or equivalent) * Zlib compression (requires zlib-1.1.3.2.exe or equivalent) * Oracle (expects /oracle to be a symbolic link to $ORACLE_HOME to access oracle libs). * Gnu Readline (requires gnu.readline-4.1.0.1.exe) * IMAP (statically linked with pine's "c-client.a") * LDAP (requires IBM's ldap.client to be installed) * Java (requires IBM's Java.rte to be installed) * Openssl (requires openssl-0.9.6.0.exe) (seal and open data, create and verify signatures). This binary distribution has pre-requisites on gnu.gdbm-1.8.0.0.exe, db3-3.1.17.0.exe, and apache-1.3.17.0.exe (these libraries are required to load the basic PHP driver and are thus not optional). PHP uses a configuration file, php.ini. This distribution places the configuration file in /etc/php. The modules are placed in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts/ This has changed since the 4.0.1 distribution, you'll need to update your php.ini file if updating. You should probably also do a diff between /etc/php/php.ini and /etc/php/php.ini-default. * apache.mod_ssl-2.8.0.0.exe Apache Interface to OpenSSL http://www.modssl.org/ This package allows Apache to support the SSL encryption protocol. To generate a certificate, use (or refer to) the script /usr/local/lib/mod_ssl-2.8/mkcert.sh Once installed, start the server with the command # apachectl startssl * apache-1.3.17.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html This maintenance release provides several security corrections (among other improvements) * apache.jserv-1.1.2.1.exe Apache Jserv Module http://java.apache.org/jserv/index.html This binary has jst been relinked with the apache-1.3.17 environemnt. This module for Apache lets server-side Java applets ("servlets") provide dynamic HTML output. I've been told that Java has good database connectivity... This package can be combined with gnujsp-1.0.1.0.exe to provide Java Server Pages (.jsp) functionality. * apache.mod_perl-1.25.0.0.exe Perl module for Apache http://perl.apache.org/ The perl-for-apache module has been renamed, which is always painful. Previously the LPP was named "freeware.perl.mod_perl.rte", and from now on it will be called "freeware.apache.mod_perl.rte". This does seem more reasonable, and was more necessary since this version doesn't seem to want to work with the freeware perl package. For those who don't know, the mod_perl for apache allows a perl script to stay running over several http requests, making it very efficient... * mm-1.1.3.0.exe MM - Shared Memory Library http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/ The memory manager is used by Apache to provide high-performance communications with its modules. * bind-8.2.3.0.exe bind (named) DNS Server program bind-9.1.0.0.exe bind (named) DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ This is the freeware version of the 'named' server delivered with AIX. The new 8.2.3 version fixes some security problems with 8.2.2 releases. Please refer to CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 for more information. * lsof-4.54.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ), all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), and/or all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i). I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. Mon Jan 29 16:43:26 NFT 2001 * gnu.gcc-2.95.2.1.exe GNU Compiler Collection gnu.gcc.g++-2.95.2.1.exe GNU Compiler Collection Extras http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ This is a new distribution of the famous GNU C Compiler, and additional utilities. This distribution includes a patch released by the GNU C team on December 2000, that I didn't see going past. I believe the patch mostly impacts the g++ compiler, however it does not include the latest libstdc++ libraries. These binaries are significaltly smaller than the previous releases, since it was configured with the "--disable-multilib" option. This prevents different "specialist" versions of each library from being compiled (which is not really appropriate for a binary distribution, in my opinion). I believe that there is a new release of GCC in the pipeline, so this update may not live for long... * sms_client-2.0.8.0.exe Simple SMS Client http://www.styx.demon.co.uk/development/index.html A simple UNIX client Allowing you to send SMS messages to mobile phones and pagers. The software currently supports a number of providers and protocols (too many to list here). Many thanks to for telling me about this. And its his fault if it doesn't work ;-) I haven't tested this, and none of the French networks are listed at all (as usual)... * pine-4.32.0.0.exe Pine user-friendly email utility with POP and IMAP daemons http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Pine is my favorite email user agent. It provides an ASCII interface (which is faster than Netscape), but also provides lots of functions. It is fully MIME-compliant, so it lets you attach files and handle accents, but it also lets you suspend email creation, access your email by Imap and POP. This pine distribution lets you search an LDAP database for your correspondents email-addresses, and to use SSL when accessing your Imap mailbox. Thus it has pre-requisites on IBM's LDAP (ldap.client.rte, on the AIX CD-Roms) and openssl (openssl-0.9.6.0.exe). Note that the University of Washington provides a simpler binary distribution of pine that works on AIX-4.2... * gnu.patch-2.5.4.0.exe GNU Patch utility http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html patch takes a patch file patchfile containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. This GNU version of patch understands additional patch formats, compared to the standard AIX patch program, but the options are similar. Fri Jan 19 16:50:39 NFT 2001 * sendmail-8.11.2.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.11 http://www.sendmail.org/ This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. The configuration files for this distribution must be places in /etc/mail by default. The tools to build a new configuration file are in /usr/local/lib/sendmail-8.11/cf * tcpdump-3.6.1.0.exe network monitoring and data acquisition tool http://www.tcpdump.org/ This is a freeware version of the standard AIX tcpdump tool. tcpdump allows the headers of ethernet packets to be captured and displayed in real-time, even if the machine where it is running is not the "real" originator or destination of the packet. * libpcap-0.6.1.0.exe Packet Capture Library http://www.tcpdump.org/ A new release of the multi-multi-purpose data capture library. This lib lets all sorts of interesting network analysis tools work under AIX. Its packaged as a shared lib (as usual), so existing installations can be updated dynamically... This distribution uses the "dlpi" interface. If the dlpi stream drivers are not loaded, the command # strload -f /etc/dlpi.conf is automatically executed during the installation phase and the file /etc/pse.conf is modified to loat them during future reboots. This is documented in the README.aix file from the libpcap source code and included in this binsry distribution. Mon Jan 15 13:57:29 NFT 2001 * sqmgrlog-2.12.0.0.exe SQUID Log File Analyser http://web.onda.com.br/orso/index.html Sqmgrlog generates reports per user/ip/name from a SQUID log file. The reports will be generated in HTML or email. The sqmgrlog configuration file is in /etc/squid. * gnu.wget-1.6.0.0.exe Wget, retrieve files from the World Wide Web http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Wget is a simple command-line tool that takes a URL and downloads the file. However Wget can also analyse the downloaded file and perform a recursive download. It can also compare timestamps to download a file only if modified. Naturally wget can use a proxy server. The wget configuration file is now in /etc/wget. * wv-0.6.2.0.exe wvWare, Word Viewer library and utilities http://www.wvWare.com/ This package provides a library and several conversion utilitys to allow Microsoft Word files to be manipulated under AIX. (Includes a DOC-to-HTML conversion, wvHtml) This package requires PNG (libpng-x.x.x.x.exe), zlib (zlib-x.x.x.x.exe), and FreeType (freetype-x.x.x.x.exe) as prerequisites. * libwmf-0.1.21.0.exe libwmf, library to convert wmf files http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html This is a sister-tool to wv, here dealing with Windows Metafiles (wmf) files). * mysql++-1.7.8.0.exe C++ API for MySql http://www.mysql.com/ This API hes been resisting my efforts at building a binary for a long time. Its one more step towards getting MySQL-GUI to work, but that's still going to be another day... * fltk-1.0.10.0.exe Fast, Light (graphical) ToolKit http://www.fltk.org/ This toolkit is a requirement for MySQL-GUI, but its an interesting API in ist own right. There are "too many" graphical APIs, but this one compiles surprisingly well and all the examples work first time. Worth looking into if you need a graphical API. I'm not sure what features are missing, since its "light"... Sat Dec 30 14:36:22 NFT 2000 * mozilla-0.6.0.0 Mozilla Web Browser http://www.mozilla.org/ At last! A working distribution of Mozilla for AIX. OK, not everything works, but there's definite promise. The Web browser, the most important bit, works, and I haven't seen any problems with it. This bit seems solid. The Composer and the mail/news part cause mozilla to core-dump when they're opened. Dont do it and you'll be ok. File->Open File causes it to core dump as well. Use a file:/// URL syntax and you should be OK. Its big, I'm tempted to remove read permissions to *force* you all to buy the CD-Rom as the only way of getting it. This will depend on demand, and how many people have to re-start the download. I hate seeing people downloading the GCC compiler (for example) 10 times... * cdrecord-1.9.0.0.exe CD-Recorder burner controller (final) http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html This is the version 1.9-final. It is thus a later release to the previously-available LPP that had a version number 1.9.0.2. The 1.9.0.2 binary was built from the 1.9-alpha2 sources... It is recommended that you dis-install the version 1.9.0.2 before installing this newer 1.9.0.0 version. Cdrecord allows cd writers to be controlled from AIX and also allows ISO filesystems to be created. With AIX-4.3.3 and later it is possible to use this tool to make bootable backup CDs with the AIX 'mkcd' command. * contrib/cdlabelgen-1.5.0.0.exe cdlabelgen, generates frontcards and traycards for CDs http://www.red-bean.com/~bwf/software/cdlabelgen/ Cdlabelgen was designed to simplify the process of generating labels for CD's. It originated as a program to allow auto generation of frontcards and traycards for CD's burned via an automated mechanism (specifically for archiving data), but has now become popular for labelling CD compilations of mp3's, and copies of CDs. Note that cdlabelgen does not actually print anything--it just spits out postscript, which you can then do with as you please. Thanks to Olaf Morgenstern for testing and packaging this utility. * contrib/gcombust-0.1.39.0.exe GTK+ frontend for mkisofs/ cdda2wav/ cdlabelgen/cdrecord http://www.iki.fi/jmunsin/gcombust Some of the features of gcombust are Burning on the fly, without making an image Tooltips to keep you from reading man pages Make creation of iso-images easy (support for making your own directory hierarchy on the image without the need for copying files/making symlinks) Maximize disk by hinting which directories/files to use Audio CD creation wav -> audio CD audio CD -> wav audio CD direct copy Multisession support Bootable CD support Save/Load path selections (for always taking a backup of the same collection of files, etc) Drag and Drop support via GTK primitive renaming of files Thanks to Olaf Morgenstern for testing and packaging this utility. * egd-0.8.0.0.exe Entropy Gathering Daemon http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to provide a source of reliably "random" data. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool. openssh uses egd to generate session keys (among other things). This package of EGD has been modified to allow better compatibility with both the freeware and the "IBM" perl distributions. It also now used an external pel module, MD5, so it has a pre-requisite on the perl.md5-2.12.0.0.exe file. Fri Dec 29 13:01:33 NFT 2000 * netsaint-0.0.6.0.exe NetSaint Network Monitor netsaint.plugins-1.2.8.4.exe Plugins for NetSaint neat-4.2.0.0.exe NetSaint Easy Administration Tool http://netsaint.sourceforge.net/ NetSaint is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises and when it gets resolved. It comes in three parts, a monitoring daemon, the test commands it runs (the plugins) and a set of CGI programs to display the current state and historic of the monitored resources. This binary distribution creates two web IDs, netsaintadmin (password apache) and netsaint (no password). The netsaintadmin web user-id lets you view all the hosts configured. The binary distribution does not attempt to determine the hosts attached to your network or to generate an appropriate hosts.cfg configuration file. The default /etc/netsaint/hosts.cfg file includes hosts from the developers target administration environment, but serves as a rich example of how netsaint works. There's a special NetSaint-On-AIX web site at the URL http://www.pawprints.2y.net/aixnetsaint/ Neat is an associated tool that simplifies configuring NetSaint. Neat is a perl CGI script that must be accessed directly, for example http://www-your-host-com/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi Neat also requires write access to the NetSaint configuration files. Typically neat reuns with the user-ID "nobody" (same as the web server), so the following command can be used: # chgrp nobody /etc/netsaint/hosts.cfg # chmod g+w /etc/netsaint/hosts.cfg However this is a security vulnerability and should only be performed temporarily. Wed Dec 13 13:37:44 NFT 2000 * bind-8.2.2.7.exe bind (named) DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ This is the freeware version of the 'named' server delivered with AIX. This version fixes some security problems with 8.2.2pl5. Note that bind v9 is also available as a binary distribution. * zebedee-2.1.3.0.exe Zebedee Secure Tunnel http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/ Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. This allows traffic such as telnet, ftp and X to be protected from snooping as well as potentially gaining performance over low-bandwidth networks from compression. Zebedee has pre-requisites on Openssl (openssl-0.9.6.0.exe), zlib (zlib-1.1.3.2.exe), and bzip2 (bzip2-1.0.1.0.exe). Thanks to Nicolas Ducor for the pointer. * tofrodos-1.4.0.0.exe Convert text files to and from DOS format http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.html TOFRODOS converts text files between the DOS format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. This freeware should provide the same features as "dos2aix" and "aix2dos", which mysteriously disappeared from AIX-4.3... Thanks to Jonathan Jude for the pointer. * lsof-4.53.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ), all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), and/or all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i). I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. * pine-4.31.0.0.exe Pine user-friendly email utility with POP and IMAP daemons http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Pine is my favorite email user agent. It provides an ASCII interface (which is faster than Netscape), but also provides lots of functions. It is fully MIME-compliant, so it lets you attach files and handle accents, but it also lets you suspend email creation, access your email by Imap and POP. This pine distribution lets you search an LDAP database for your correspondents email-addresses, and to use SSL when accessing your Imap mailbox. Thus it has pre-requisites on IBM's LDAP (ldap.client.rte, on the AIX CD-Roms) and openssl (openssl-0.9.6.0.exe). Note that the University of Washington provides a simpler binary distribution of pine that works on AIX-4.2... * gnu.cpio-2.4.2.0.exe GNU cpio command http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Cpio file formats tend to be different for each operating system. The GNU cpio is useful since it allows you to exchange CPIO files with linux users, and in general it can provide a cross-platform CPIO file format. Mon Dec 11 14:09:49 NFT 2000 * gnujsp-1.0.1.0.exe GNU Java Server Pages Servlet http://www.klomp.org/gnujsp/ The GNU JSP is a Java Servlet that takes .jsp files, searches them for "<%" tags, and compiles whatever's inside into Java. Or something like that. Java Server Pages allow you mix Java source code and HTML. This package requires apache and mod_jserv Zipped Unzipped (KBs) gnujsp-1.0.1.0.exe 499 1551 apache-1.3.14.0.exe 1267 4001 apache.jserv-1.1.2.0.exe 763 2851 This GNU JSP package attempts to auto-configure Apache and Jserv to implement the most simple example given in the GNU JSP installation instructions. In other words in creates a java-zone /alph, and then configures Apache so that .jsp files are handled by /alph/gnujsp (the GNU JSP servlet). the /alph zone is not visible from the outside (so there's probably no need to change it). * gnu.screen-3.9.8.0.exe GNU ASCII Multi-Screen Utility ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ This tool is an absolute must for anyone working on ASCII terminals. It provides a useful multi-window environment on any 'tty' terminal or pseudo-terminal. This is the first freeware I ever used, and I still use it every time I have to log into the console. For example when I have to make a backup I can do that in one virtual screen while reading my mail in another. * sudo-1.6.3.5.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html SuDo is a "delegation" tool for system administrators. SuDo can be configured to allow particular users or groups of users execute particular commands as the Super User. For example certain users can be permitted to perform a backup or a shutdown. Beware of shell-escapes in the delegated commands! For anybody upgrading from v1.5, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * perl.libwww-5.41.0.0.exe WWW library for Perl 5 perl.libnet-1.7.3.0.exe Networking Modules for Perl perl.net.telnet-3.2.0.0.exe Net::Telnet module for Perl perl.html.parser-3.13.0.0.exe Perl HTML Parser module perl.html.tagset-3.3.0.0.exe Perl HTML::Tagset Module perl.mime.base64-2.11.0.0.exe MIME Base64 module for Perl5 perl.uri-1.9.0.0.exe Perl URI Module perl.md5-2.12.0.0.exe MD5 - perl extension http://www.cpan.org/ Many Perl Modules. All these perl modules were compiled on top of IBM's perl package, but should also work with the "freeware" perl package in the AIX-4.3.2 directory. The modules are fairly small (check the 00_SIZE.txt file of zipped and unzipped sizes), but they have interconnected pre-requisites. Naturally if you buy the CD-Rom the pre-requisites are installed automatically.... * perl.dbd.oracle-1.6.0.0.exe DBD::Oracle, Oracle interface for Perl http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB This module allows Oracle databases to be accessed using the perl DataBase Interface (DBI) module. The module should work with IBM's perl (requires the DBI package in the contribs directory) or the "freeware" perl package (requires the DBI package in the AIX-4.3.2 directory). This module requires access to the oracle shared libraries, so you should set up /oracle to be a symbolic link to $ORACLE_HOME. * openssh-2.3.0.101.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html Openssh is a package that provides a secure (encrypted, authenticated) replacement to rlogin, rcp and rsh ("the R-commands"). This package fixes a packaging problem in the initial package for version 2.3 of openssl. The initial package contained the binaries from version 2.2... Openssh requires openssl and EGD as pre-requisites. EGD is (still) in the /contrib directory. Of course if you get the CD-Rom, all the pre-requisites install automatically... This Openssh delivers an rc.openssh script that can be used to replace rlogin, rsh and rcp. The R-command binaries are placed in /usr/savedir, and the commands are replaced by symbolic links to ssh or scp. If SSH is not running on the remote host, then ssh will to the normal R-commands (it knows they're in /usr/savedir). Activate this mode with the command # rc.openssh replace Mon Dec 4 10:55:39 NFT 2000 * ia64/* All AIX-on-IA64 Software All the IA64 software has been recompiled on the "Beta-3" platform, and has been updated to the latest releases... * python-2.0.0.0.exe Python Scripting Language from BeOpen http://python.org/download/ Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language suitable (amongst other uses) for distributed application development, scripting, numeric computing and system testing. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic or Scheme. To find out more about what Python can do for you, point your browser to http://www.pythonlabs.com/. Download size (KBs): 4032 python-2.0.0.0.exe * gimp-1.1.29.0.exe The Gimp Image Manipulation Program * gimp.perl-1.1.29.0.exe Perl-based plugins and tools for Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ The Gimp is a professional-class image creation and modification package. Personaly I don't understand half (ok, any) of it, but its good to look at. This package has prerequisites on GTK and Gnu Gettext, so these have to be installed before the Gimp. However the Gimp uses plugins to read different file formats, so installing Jpeg, PNG and libTiff is strongly recommended. Download size (KBs): 10708 gimp-1.1.29.0.exe 448 gimp.perl-1.1.29.0.exe 276 glib-1.2.8.0.exe 2020 gtk+-1.2.8.0.exe 356 jpeg-6.0.2.0.exe 452 libpng-1.0.8.0.exe 804 tiff-3.5.4.0.exe 136 zlib-1.1.3.2.exe It's probably worthwhile to order the CD-Rom to get the Gimp... * gkermit-1.0.0.0.exe GNU Kermit http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gkermit.html G-Kermit is a Unix program for transferring files with the Kermit protocol. G-Kermit is a product of the Kermit Project at Columbia University in New York city, but licensed as a Freeware (previous releases of kermit were only distributed on the kermit home page). Download size (KBs): 140 gkermit-1.0.0.0.exe Wed Nov 22 13:25:45 NFT 2000 * xpaint-2.6.1.0.exe XPaint - image editing tool http://www.image.dk/~torsten/xpaint/index.html Xpaint is a fairly simple image editing tool. It doesn't do any fancy stuff like "the Gimp", but it will allow you to change formats (for example). This binary has prerequisites on various image-handling libraries... * proftpd-1.2.0.0.exe ProFTPd ftp daemon http://www.proftpd.net/ A replacement FTP daemon. ProFTPd replaces the standard AIX ftp server, and also the well-known "WU-ftp" daemon. ProFTPd claims to provide more features than wu-ftpd, and to be easier to configure. * mysql-3.23.27.0.exe MySQL SQL database server * mysql.client-3.23.27.0.exe MySQL Client Libraries http://www.mysql.com/ The version 3.23 is still officially "beta", but is "Recommended" by the MySQL web page, and is apparently used in many production environments. I've been informed that the version 3.23 client libraries are stable. The extraction of the "client" part of MySQL into a separate LPP allows you to choose the version of server and client to use independently. The 'client' LPP is an explicit pre-requisite for the server-only LPP. In other words, you can install the client without the server, but not the other way round. * vnc-3.3.3.2.exe Virtual Network Computing http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ An impressive tool from ATT that lets you access a CDE desktop session from your PC, another AIX, or indeed any Java-enabled web browser. The PC version of this tool lets you access your PC screen from the same set of platforms (another PC, an X-terminal or any Java web browser). All I can say is "wow"... I included a patch for "zlib" compression from http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/VNC_bits/ so this now requires zlib as a prerequisite... * gnu.rcs-5.7.0.0.exe RCS, the Revision Control System http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/rcs.html RCS is an alternative to the "sccs" tools delivered with AIX. I'm sure "CVS" does the same sort of things... * gnu.diff-2.7.0.0.exe GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/diffutils.html GNU Diff provides a replacement for the 'diff' command delivered with AIX, and some additional improved tools. * bind-9.0.1.0.exe bind (named) DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ This is the freeware version of the 'named' server delivered with AIX. This V9 distribution provides many new features over the "standard" 8.2 release. * php4-4.0.3.1.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ Just when you think you're up to date, they bring out a new one.... Well, I've taken the opportunity to improve the package a little bit. I activated drivers for LDAP, IMAP, and Java. I don't know if they work, or anything, but they load... PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contents of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases, and support for MySQL and PostGres is included in this binary distribution via external modules (see later).. This binary distribution includes the following external modules (yes, modules to a module...) : * MySql access (requires mysql.client-3.23.25.0.exe or equivalent), * PostgreSQL (requires postgresql-7.0.2.0.exe or equivalent) * GD graphics library (requires gd-1.8.3.0.exe or equivalent) * GNU Internationalization (requires gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe or equivalent) * Zlib compression (requires zlib-1.1.3.2.exe or equivalent) * Oracle (expects /oracle to be a symbolic link to $ORACLE_HOME to access oracle libs). * Gnu Readline (requires gnu.readline-4.1.0.1.exe) * IMAP (statically linked with pine's "c-client.a") * LDAP (requires IBM's ldap.client to be installed) # Java (requires IBM's Java.rte to be installed) This binary distribution has pre-requisites on gnu.gdbm-1.8.0.0.exe and apache-1.3.14.0.exe (these libraries are required to load the basic PHP driver and are thus not optional). PHP uses a configuration file, php.ini. This distribution places the configuration file in /etc/php. The modules are placed in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts/ This has changed since the 4.0.1 distribution, you'll need to update your php.ini file if updating. You should probably also do a diff between /etc/php/php.ini and /etc/php/php.ini-default. This package is able to co-exist with a php3 installation. Wed Nov 15 19:55:43 NFT 2000 * apache.jserv-1.1.2.0.exe Apache Jserv Module http://java.apache.org/jserv/index.html This module for Apache lets server-side Java applets ("servlets") provide dynamic HTML output. I've been told that Java has good database connectivity... * apache.mod_perl-1.24.1.0.exe Perl module for Apache http://perl.apache.org/ The perl-for-apache module has been renamed, which is always painful. Previously the LPP was named "freeware.perl.mod_perl.rte", and from now on it will be called "freeware.apache.mod_perl.rte". This does seem more reasonable, and was more necessary since this version doesn't seem to want to work with the freeware perl package. For those who don't know, the mod_perl for apache allows a perl script to stay running over several http requests, making it very efficient... * cvs-1.11.0.0.exe CVS version control system http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/info.html CVS is frequently used in Open Source projects to coordinate work between different teams and people. This binary was statically linked to a socks-V4 library, and dynamically linked to libz.a. That means that it supports SOCKS, and that it has a pre-requisite on freeware.zlib.rte * lsof-4.52.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ), all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), and/or all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i). I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. Thu Nov 9 16:05:41 NFT 2000 * rtspd-1.0.0.0.exe Real Time Streaming Protocol Proxy http://docs.real.com/docs/proxykit/ This proxy may help you, or your Firewall administrator, access "Streaming Media" sources on the Internet. * perl.mod_perl-1.24.0.0.exe Perl module for Apache http://perl.apache.org/ This module allows a perl script to stay running over several http requests, making it very efficient... * bull.mklpp-1.2.8.0.exe Light-LPP generation tool This is the tool I use to build all these LPPs. This release has support for working as a non-root user (at least some of the time). Thu Oct 26 16:32:59 DFT 2000 * openssh-2.2.0.1.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html This package fixes a packaging problem that appeared with the latest openssl package. For more information on this package please check out the archives at http://www-frec.bull.com/download/Updates.txt * openssl-0.9.6.0.exe OpenSSL, Secure Sockets Layer http://www.openssl.org/ This package delivers various shared libs used by OpenSSH and other utilities. * apache.mod_ssl-2.7.0.0.exe Apache Interface to OpenSSL http://www.modssl.org/ This package allows Apache to support the SSL encryption protocol. To generate a certificate, use (or refer to) the script /usr/local/lib/mod_ssl-2.7/mkcert.sh Once installed, start the server with the command # apachectl startssl * apache-1.3.14.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html This maintenance release provides several security corrections (among other improvements) Tue Oct 17 10:44:03 DFT 2000 * gnu.pg-1.0.3.0.exe GNU Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ This package contains the latest version of the completely freeware implementation of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). This release includes support of the RSA algorithm. This release seems to require that you *manually* perform the following commands before using GnuPG: $ mkdir ~/.gnupg $ cp /usr/local/share/gnupg/options.skel ~/.gnupg/options * analog-4.13.0.0.exe Web Log-file analyser http://www.analog.cx/ I can't see what this does that is different from ftpweblog or webalizer, but somebody out there asked me to package it. * postgresql-7.0.2.0.exe PostgreSQL Relational Database http://www.postgresql.org/ I've been neglecting PostgreSQL, which is a shame since it compiles easily under AIX and appears to work. I'm not sure what's changed since the V6... * ImageMagick-5.2.4.0.exe ImageMagick Image Manipulation Utility http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html ImageMagick is a collection of tools, libraries and modules to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, and PDF. This version of ImageMagick uses external shared modules to allow support for new image formats to be added dynamically. This also reduces the number of pre-requisite libraries that must be installed for a minimum configuration. The minimum requirements are now: freeware.zlib.rte 1.1.3.1 (zlib-1.1.3.2.exe) freeware.jpeg.rte 6.0.2.0 (jpeg-6.0.2.0.exe) freeware.tiff.rte 3.4.37.1 (tiff-3.5.4.0.exe) The following libs are required to get one or more modules to work: bzip2-1.0.1.0.exe jbigkit-1.0.0.0.exe libpng-1.0.6.0.exe freetype-1.3.1.0.exe * sendmail-8.11.1.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.11 http://www.sendmail.org/ This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. The configuration files for this distribution must be places in /etc/mail by default. The tools to build a new configuration file are in /usr/local/lib/sendmail-8.11/cf * php4-4.0.3.0.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ Just when you think you're up to date, they bring out a new one.... Well, I've taken the opportunity to improve the package a little bit. I included a driver (oci8) to access Oracle databases, and the "gnu.readline" pre-requisite has been suppressed (its now just another module, and I still don't know what its for...) PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contents of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases, and support for MySQL and PostGres is included in this binary distribution via external modules (see later).. This binary distribution includes the following external modules (yes, modules to a module...) : * MySql access (requires mysql.client-3.23.25.0.exe or equivalent), * PostgreSQL (requires postgresql-7.0.2.0.exe or equivalent) * GD graphics library (requires gd-1.8.3.0.exe or equivalent) * GNU Internationalization (requires gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe or equivalent) * Zlib compression (requires zlib-1.1.3.2.exe or equivalent) * Oracle (expects /oracle to be a symbolic link to $ORACLE_HOME to access oracle libs). * Gnu Readline (requires gnu.readline-4.1.0.1.exe) This binary distribution has pre-requisites on gnu.gdbm-1.8.0.0.exe and apache-1.3.12.1.exe (these libraries are required to load the basic PHP driver and are thus not optional). PHP uses a configuration file, php.ini. This distribution places the configuration file in /etc/php. The modules are placed in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts/ This has changed since the 4.0.1 distribution, you'll need to update your php.ini file if updating. You should probably also do a diff between /etc/php/php.ini and /etc/php/php.ini-default. This package is able to co-exist with a php3 installation. Thu Oct 12 11:25:51 DFT 2000 * php4-4.0.2.0.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contests of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases, and support for MySQL and PostGres is included in this binary distribution via external modules (see later).. This binary distribution includes the following external modules (yes, modules to a module...) : * MySql access (requires mysql.client-3.23.25.0.exe or equivalent), * PostgreSQL (requires postgresql-6.5.3.0.exe or equivalent) * GD graphics library (requires gd-1.8.3.0.exe or equivalent) * GNU Internationalization (requires gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe or equivalent) * Zlib compression (requires zlib-1.1.3.2.exe or equivalent) This binary distribution has pre-requisites on gnu.gdbm-1.8.0.0.exe and gnu.readline-4.1.0.1.exe (these libraries are required to load the basic PHP driver and are thus not optional. PHP uses a configuration file, php.ini. This distribution places the configuration file in /etc/php. The modules are placed in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts/ (this has changed since the last distribution, you'll need to update your php.ini file if updating). This package should be able to co-exist with a php3 installation. * mysql-3.22.32.1.exe MySQL SQL database server * mysql.client-3.23.25.0.exe MySQL Client Libraries http://www.mysql.com/ According to the MySQL developers, the version 3.23 of the MySQL *engine* is unstable and not recommended for production environments. However I've been informed that the version 3.23 client libraries are stable. The PHP mysql driver appears to want to work with version 3.23 client libraries, as do the MySQL++ interface and the MySQL GUI. For this reason I've removed the client libraries and utilities from the freeware.mysql.rte LPP and created a new freeware.mysql.client.rte LPP with the more rescent libs. Here's hoping this works... * gd-1.8.3.0.exe Graphics Display Library http://www.boutell.com/gd/ This version of GD supports the creation of JPEG files, along with other improvements. This binary distribution has pre-requisites on * freeware.libpng.rte (libpng-1.0.6.0.exe) * freeware.zlib.rte (zlib-1.1.3.2.exe) * freeware.xpm.rte (xpm-3.4.11.0.exe) * freeware.jpeg.rte (jpeg-6.0.2.0.exe) * freeware.freetype.rte (freetype-1.3.1.0.exe) Fri Oct 6 10:23:01 DFT 2000 * vim-5.7.0.0.exe Vi IMproved http://www.vim.org/ By popular demand (I've been getting suggestion to package VIM for *years* (OK, only one or two per year)). Actually its probably always the same person asking for it, but if they're that insistent it must be good. And since my favorite editor *is* vi, I decided I really should. Now if only the shared system that I do my *real* work on was installed with AIX-4.3 instead of AIX-4.2... * openssh-2.2.0.1.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html This package contains the latest version of the completely freeware implementation of the SSH-v1 and v2 protocols. This package auto-configures itself to re-use previously-existing host-keys under /etc and /etc/ssh if they exist, otherwise it automatically generates a new one. The start/stop script, /etc/rc.openssh, also has other options allowing it to replace rsh, rlogin and rcp, and to recover public keys from remote hosts. Openssh uses egd to generate session keys (among other things), so it has a pre-requisite. Egd is available in the "contrib" directory. EGD is a perl script that runs as a daemon, generating a pool of "random" data needed by cryptographic applications. This package for EGD was built on top of IBM's perl package. If you don't already have perl installed, install either IBM's perl (for AIX-4.3.3 systems) or download the freeware perl. If you already have a "freeware.perl.rte" installed, with a version of less than 5.6.0.1, then execute the following commands before installing egd: mkdir -p /usr/opt/perl5 ln -s /usr/local/bin /usr/opt/perl5/bin ln -s /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/opt/perl5/lib * apache.mod_ssl-2.2.6.0.exe Apache Interface to OpenSSL http://www.modssl.org/ This package allows Apache to support the SSL encryption protocol. To generate a certificate, use (or refer to) the script /usr/local/lib/mod_ssl-2.6.6/mkcert.sh Once installed, start the server with the command # apachectl startssl * apache-1.3.12.1.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html This updated binary package includes the "EAPI" that is required by the SSL module for Apache. * webmin-0.81.0.0.exe Web-based Administration Utility http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ A cute suite of web-based tool that let you perform many administration tasks over the web. The basic source distribution understands a few AIX applications (mainly the freeware ones), but we've done a bit of integration work to get it to understand some basic-OS administration tasks for AIX. Webmin can also use OpenSSL to encrypt the communications (if the perl-ssl module is installed). This package tries to auto-install itself. It automatically runs the webmin server, which can then be accessed with the username and passwd of "admin" (this is not at all secure, you are very, very strongly recommended to modify the password after installation (via the web interface). Use the URL http://:10000/ or https://:10000/ if you have OpenSSL * perl.net.ssleay-1.5.0.0.exe Perl Net::SSLeay module for OpenSSL http://www.bacus.pt/Net_SSLeay/index.html http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/Sampo_Kellomaki/ This perl module lets perl programs (such as webmin) use SSL security for their communications. * rrdtool-1.0.28.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Its a bit complicated at first but its quite powerful. If you use RRD-Tool, the author can be thanked by buying him a small gift on Amazon.com via his wishlist: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/wish * gnu.bash-2.4.0.0.exe Bourne Again SHell http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ Bash is a replacement to ksh, originally developed because ksh wasn't open-source. Ksh has since become open-source, but it has difficulty compiling on AIX. The standard AIX ksh is "ksh-89". AIX also includes "dtksh", which allows you to do Motif window-programming and includes ksh-93. I don't know what version of ksh extensions in supported by bash, and I'm not sure if there are window-programming extensions available for it... Mon Sep 18 17:14:41 DFT 2000 * ntop-1.3.2.0.exe Network Usage Monitoring Tool http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/ntop.html http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html This is a really impressive network monitor program. It provides a web interface (port 3000 or 30001), with tables of data, graphic pie-charts, and hyper-text links to "zoom in" on different information. My Netscape Communicator v4.7 wouldn't work with it, but my Internet Explorer would. This package has prerequisites on libpcap (don't forget to load the dlpi interface, and don't forget that only one process can sniff on a network adapter at a time), openssl, gnu.gdbm, and lsof... This package is built from a snapshot, dated 25th August 2000. * contrib/acroread-4.0.5.0.exe Adobe Acrobat Reader http://www.adobe.com/ This is just the Adobe binary, downloaded from their web site and repackaged as an LPP. * xpaint-2.6.0.0.exe XPaint - image editing tool http://www.image.dk/~torsten/xpaint/index.html Xpaint is a fairly simple image editing tool. It doesn't do any fancy stuff like "the Gimp", but it will allow you to change formats (for example). This binary has prerequisites on various image-handling libraries... Mon Sep 4 16:24:05 DFT 2000 * gimp-1.1.25.0.exe The Gimp Image Manipulation Program * gimp.perl-1.1.25.0.exe Perl-based plugins and tools for Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ I updated the Gimp because it wasn't working with the latest glib (I hope this won't become a frequent occurrence). The last time I did the Gimp it took me 2 weeks (and two attempts). This time I did it in a few days. But its always traumatic. The perl plugins require perl-5.6.0, as well as several perl modules. This won't work with IBM's perl (this time round). * ethereal-0.8.11.0.exe Ethereal network protocol analyze http://www.zing.org/ interactive network sniffer and decoder. It uses libpcap and gtk+/glib, so these have to be installed first. This version has improved the GUI a bit (I'm beginning to understand it). However the main reason for updating the package was that the previous binary didn't work with the glib-1.2.8... Who mentioned "testing"? Fri Sep 1 17:52:16 DFT 2000 * txt2pdf-3.6.0.0.exe Text-to-PDF converter http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html This highly configurable utility allows "legacy" test documents to be converted to PDF quickly and easily. Txt2pdf is a perl program, but the LPP also contains a perl-binary so Perl itself foes not need to be installed. * squid-2.3.4.0.exe Squid Proxy Server http://www.squid-cache.org/ The Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. This release, 2.3-STABLE4, corrects a problem where the cache fills up and overflows. * libpcap-0.5.2.0.exe Packet Capture Library http://www.tcpdump.org/ A new release of the multi-multi-purpose data capture library. This lib lets all sorts of interesting network analysis tools work under AIX. Its packaged as a shared lib (as usual), so existing installations can be updated dynamically... This distribution uses the "dlpi" interface. If the dlpi stream drivers are not loaded, the command # strload -f /etc/dlpi.conf should be executed after every reboot. * ntop-1.1.0.0.exe Network Usage Monitoring Tool http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/ntop.html This "network top" tool monitors a network connection (using libpcap to "sniff" the network) and reports on the systems that are currently occupying the bandwidth. Its a bit like the "top" process display in monitor. * tcpdump-3.5.2.0.exe network monitoring and data acquisition tool http://www.tcpdump.org/ This is a freeware version of the standard AIX tcpdump tool. tcpdump allows the headers of ethernet packets to be captured and displayed in real-time, even if the machine where it is running is not the "real" originator or destination of the packet. * gnu.gdbm-1.8.0.0.exe GNU Database Manager http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/ This was "formally" required by "ntop", version 1.3, and I've also seen perl looking for it. I've built it as a shared module, so its going to start turning up as a pre-requisite... * gnu.automake-1.4.0.0.exe GNU Automake, a Makefile Generator http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ This utility is mostly used by freeware developers to help make their software packages "configure"-able. * dmalloc-4.7.1.0.exe Debug Malloc Library http://dmalloc.com/ The debug memory allocation or dmalloc library has been designed as a drop in replacement for the system's malloc, realloc, calloc, free and other memory management routines while providing powerful debugging facilities configurable at runtime. Dmalloc requires recompiling your application. Mon Aug 21 19:43:19 DFT 2000 * monitor-2.1.7.8.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE8) * monitor_aix433-2.1.7.8.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE8) http://www.mesa.nl/download.html A new update to the indispensable "monitor" utility. Since AIX-4.3.3 has different kernel structures, I built two binaries. The AIX-4.3.3 binary is in the contributions directory. This update corrects a defect where the monitor.log file was created unconditionally in the current directory (now you have to use -log), and corrects a rounding error in the memory statistics. Monitor is provided by Mesa Consulting. They can provide many services including technical support for all existing Open Source software. * gnu.readline-4.1.0.0.exe Gnu Readline library http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/readline.html ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/readline/ The GNU readline library allows applications to conveniently support command-line editing and history. This package contains the libreadline.a and libhistory.a as shared libraries, so the package will be a prerequisite of other packages (such as the perl readline module). * perl.freeware.readline-1.9.0.0.exe GNU Readline Library Wrapper Module http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/08_User_Interfaces/Term/ This perl module allows the GNU readline module to be used from perl, when perl offers a command-line interface. This is typically interesting when using the perl debugger... * contrib/gnuplot-3.7.0.0.exe Graphic Plotting Utility http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html (contributed by Ben Kamen , http://www.benjammin.net/ ) Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility. The fact that the name starts with "GNU" is a co-incidence, the program does not come from the GNU project of the FSF. Gnuplot handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Surfaces can be plotted as a mesh fitting the specified function, floating in the 3-d coordinate space, or as a contour plot on the x-y plane. For 2-d plots, there are also many plot styles, including lines, points, lines with points, error bars, and impulses (crude bar graphs). Graphs may be labeled with arbitrary labels and arrows, axes labels, a title, date and time, and a key. Wed Aug 16 17:58:15 DFT 2000 * perl.DBI-1.14.0.0.exe Perl DataBase Interface * perl.dbi.mysql-1.22.14.0.exe Perl DBI MySql Interface module http://www.cpan.org/ These modules allow access to the MySQL database from perl-5.6. * perl-5.6.0.1.exe PERL scripting language runtime http://www.cpan.org/ I re-packaged Perl because I succeeded in making it look in IBM's perl directories as well and its own for any modules required by a script. This means that the modules built on top of IBM's perl (in the contrib directory) should be able to work with this perl distribution. This perl was also linked with "run-time linking" enabled, just in case a later perl module requires it... * php4-4.0.1.2.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ PHP provides an extension to the Apache Web server, to allow the contests of web pages to be generated dynamically. This is similar to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) or Netscape's LiveWire extensions. PHP allows access to several different databases. This binary distribution includes external modules (yes, modules to a module...) to access MySql (using a built-in driver) and PostgreSQL (if the shared library libpq.a is available). This binary distribution also includes modules for compression (zlib) and internationalization (gettext). To use these modules, the corresponding freeware packages must be installed, for example gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe, postgresql-6.5.3.0.exe, zlib-1.1.3.2.exe. PHP uses a configuration file, php.ini. This distribution places the configuration file in /etc/php. This package should be able to co-exist with a php3 installation. This package uses all the "built-in" drivers available, including the mysql one. The configure script displays the following warning: | You chose to compile PHP with the built-in MySQL support. If you | | are compiling a server module, and intend to use other server | | modules that also use MySQL (e.g, mod_auth_mysql, PHP 3.0, | | mod_perl) you must NOT rely on PHP's built-in MySQL support, and | | instead build it with your local MySQL support files, by adding | | --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql to your configure line. | Fri Aug 11 17:26:23 DFT 2000 * mysql-3.22.32.0.exe MySQL SQL database server http://www.mysql.com/ This is the latest stable release of MySQL, a popular freeware database server. * glib-1.2.8.0.exe GLib graphics library * gtk+-1.2.8.0.exe Gimp ToolKit GUI Library http://www.gtk.org/ These toolkits are used by many newer freeware packages, and are always delivered as shared libs. These new releases don't seem to have changed much, so it should be possible to plug them in directly on top of the previous version. Tue Aug 1 11:16:30 DFT 2000 * openssh-2.1.1.4.exe OpenSSH, secure shell client and server http://www.openssh.com/portable.html This package contains the latest version of the completely freeware implementation of the SSH-v1 and v2 protocols. This package auto-configures itself to re-use previously-existing host-keys under /etc and /etc/ssh if they exist, otherwise it automatically generates a new one. The start/stop script, /etc/rc.openssh, also has other options allowing it to replace rsh, rlogin and rcp, and to recover public keys from remote hosts. * openssl-0.9.5.1.exe OpenSSL, Secure Sockets Layer http://www.openssl.org/ This package delivers various shared libs used by SSH and other utilities. * gnu.pg-1.0.2.0.exe GNU Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ This package contains the latest version of the completely freeware implementation of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). It is compatible with the different file formats used by PGP up to version 5. * nmap-2.53.0.0.exe Nmap: Network exploration tool and security scanner http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ This tool implements several devious and underhand ways to get information concerning remote hosts. Usually these tools don't work on AIX, but this binary does work at least a bit... * wu-ftpd-2.6.1.0.exe Washington University FTP server http://www.wu-ftpd.org/ WU Ftpd provides more features than the standard FTP server delivered with AIX (and most commercial unixes). These features are particularly useful when maintaining an anonymous FTP server. However security-conscious people will remember that any additional features will almost inevitably bring more bugs and security holes. This version 2.6.1 includes the fix for the latest one found. * sendmail-8.11.0.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.11 http://www.sendmail.org/ This version of sendmail includes some support for encryption, among other new features. This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. The configuration files for this distribution must be places in /etc/mail by default. The tools to build a new configuration file are in /usr/local/lib/sendmail-8.11/cf Tue Jul 25 13:35:37 DFT 2000 * sudo-1.6.3.4.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html Yet another minor bug update. For anybody upgrading from v1.5, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * contrib/egd-0.8.0.0.exe egd (entropy gathering daemon) http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ (contributed by Wolfgang Schmid, IBM Austria) EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to provide a source of reliably "random" data. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool. openssh uses egd to generate session keys (among other things). This LPP contains a Perl module that has been packaged for IBM's perl LPP. However it may be installed on the "freeware.perl.rte" LPP by first executing the commands: mkdir -p /usr/opt/perl5 ln -s /usr/local/bin /usr/opt/perl5/bin ln -s /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/opt/perl5/lib * contrib/openssl-0.9.5.0.exe OpenSSL (Open Secure Socket Layer) http://www.openssl.org/ (contributed by Wolfgang Schmid, IBM Austria) OpenSSL is a free implementation of SSL (secure sockets layer), an encryption protocol used widely on the web. * contrib/openssh-2.1.0.3.exe openssh (Open Secure Shell) http://www.openssh.com/ OpenSSH is an implementation of the SSH protocol, with all proprietary or copyrighted encryption protocols excluded. OpenSSH implements both the SSH-1 and SSH-2 protocols. * tcp_wrappers-7.6.1.0.exe TCP/IP daemon security wrapper package (with IPv6) ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_7.6-ipv6.tar.gz This is an improvement to the standard tcp-wrappers that can handle IPv6. The previous release required that you use "tcp" instead of "tcp6" in /etc/inetd.conf. This package includes libwrap.a as a shared lib, and tcpd.h in case anyone wants to use the wrapper in their programs. Thu Jul 6 17:35:46 DFT 2000 * libungif-4.1.0.1.exe libungif, uncompressed GIFs Library http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/getting.shtml Just when you thing you've packaged all the graphics libraries, along comes another one... * squid-2.3.3.0.exe Squid Proxy Server http://www.squid-cache.org/ The squid is a powerful Web proxy server. This is the version 2.3-STABLE3, whereas the previous version was 2.2-STABLE5. I'm not really sure what's been changing recently, but this is the latest and the best. * webmin-0.80.0.0.exe Web-based Administration Utility http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ A cute suite of web-based tool that let you perform many administration tasks over the web. The basic source distribution understands a few AIX applications (mainly the freeware ones), but we've done a bit of integration work to get it to understand some basic-OS administration tasks for AIX. This probably isn't highly secure, from an access-security point of view, but if you're on a protected network it should be OK. Once its installed you need to run the command /usr/local/lib/webmin/setup.sh * lsof-4.50.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ), all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), and/or all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i). I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. * perl-5.6.0.0.exe PERL scripting language runtime http://www.cpan.org/ Don't ask me why, but perl v5.6 is now successfully passing its 'make test'. Maybe the last batch of PTFs that I applied to my system corrected something, maybe I flipped some configuration option to make it work. All I know is that it now seems to work. On the other hand, perl-5.6 doesn't really deliver many new externally-visible features, though I believe many things have changed "under the hood". * bull.mklpp-1.2.6.0.exe Light-LPP generation tool This is the tool I use to build all these LPPs. This release has updated template pre- and post- installation scripts. * cgilib-0.5.0.1.exe The CGI Library http://www.infodrom.north.de/cgilib/ Simple library giving access to CGI variables from a C program. I rebuilt the LPP because I forgot to include the cgi.h file. Mon Jul 3 14:58:01 DFT 2000 * gnu.gzip-1.2.4.1.exe GNU Zip ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip Yes, gzip got updated, sometime in February 1999. I have no idea what changed, I think the standard gzip is still OK... * gnu.gawk-3.0.5.0.exe GNU Awk ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gawk While I was checking out the GNU software, I decided to package the Gnu Awk. Actually I thought I'd done this a long time ago... * gnu.make-3.79.1.0.exe GNU Make ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/make I decided to update my make ;-) * bzip2-1.0.1.0.exe Bzip2 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html Bzip2 is like gzip, but it uses a different compression algorithm. Bzip2 produces slightly smaller compressed files. This distribution includes a shared lib, libbz2.a. * contrib/phone-1.0.0.0.exe Phone voice message alarm software The file phone-1.0.0.0.exe contains a shareware that knows how to send voice messages over Hyes or Olitek modems. With the demo version you can: - send only the voc1 file (in english language) - record voice messages. If you want to listen your recorded voice message you have to copy the file to the announce file and then record another one. Please contact Pierre JEAN SARL EUPROSOFT 4 rue Plichon, 75011 PARIS, FRANCE Tel : (33)1.55.28.81.81 Fax : (33)1.55.28.81.82 Fri Jun 30 14:25:38 DFT 2000 * cdrecord-1.9.0.2.exe CD-Recorder burner controller (ALPHA-2) http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html This tool allows cd writers to be controlled from AIX and also allows ISO filesystems to be created. With AIX-4.3.3 and later it is possible to use this tool to make bootable backup CDs... * abi-0.7.10.0.exe AbiWord-Personal Word Processor http://www.abisource.com/ This is a Word-compatible word processor for Unix. If I've understood correctly, it can read word .doc files but cannot create them (but it can create .rtf files). It has prerequisites on gtk, glib, libpng and zlib, you'll have to download and install each of these packages. * contrib/CGatePro-AIX-PPC-33b7.exe cgpro Stalker CommuniGate Pro messaging server http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/Install.html The file CGatePro-AIX-PPC-33b7.exe contains a shareware called "CommuniGate Pro messaging server". This is an integrated messaging server and it includes SMTP/POP3/IMAP support with integrated Web-based mail. The product is packaged as an LPP. I haven't tried it myself. Apparently the product will insert "one-line demo banners into all incoming and outgoing messages" until the commercial license has been purchased. * netpbm-9.4.0.0.exe Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit http://download.sourceforge.net/netpbm/ Image format conversion suite. Netpbm converts from one of 3 basic image formats (PBM, PGM and PPM) to almost any widely-used format, and visa-versa. Some optional programs rely on external shared libraries, which are not listed as prerequisites to the LPP. These include libjpeg.a available from freeware.jpeg.rte libpng.a available from freeware.libpng.rte libtiff.a available from freeware.tiff.rte librle.a available from freeware.urt.rte * urt-3.1.2.0.exe Utah Raster Toolkit http://www.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/alpha1/urt.html ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z This is used by one or two netpbm conversion utilities. If you want to use the urt format with netpbm, you'll need to install this LPP. * bull.check-1.2.25.0.exe Security Fix checker for AIX 4 Follow the link from the second half of the download page to get to bull-check. Bull-Check was originally designed as "just" a tool to see if any security-related PTFs should be installed on a system, but with the Year2000 it was re-commissioned to check for year2000 PTFs. Its now slowly reverting to its original function. Please refer to the bull.check-1.2.25.0.txt file for more info. Mon Jun 19 13:55:04 DFT 2000 * monitor-2.1.7.7.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE7) * monitor_aix433-2.1.7.7.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE7) http://www.mesa.nl/index_e.html A new release of the indispensable "monitor" utility. Since AIX-4.3.3 has different kernel structures, I built two binaries. The AIX-4.3.3 binary is in the contributions directory. * netpbm-9.2.0.0.exe Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit http://download.sourceforge.net/netpbm/ Image format conversion suite. Netpbm converts from one of 3 basic image formats (PBM, PGM and PPM) to almost any widely-used format, and visa-versa. Thu Jun 8 14:05:31 DFT 2000 * gnu.gdb-5.0.0.0.exe gdb debugging utility http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/ GDB is the GNU debugging tool. I have no idea what it does better than AIX's dbx (except probably de-mangling the G++ symbols), however loads of people are always asking for the latest version. This release of GDB includes support for AIX, though I haven't tried it myself. * sudo-1.6.3.3.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html Yet another minor bug update. For anybody upgrading from v1.5, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. Tue May 23 10:12:09 DFT 2000 * libpcap-0.5.0.0.exe Packet Capture Library http://www.tcpdump.org/ recompiled to use the "dlpi" interface, since ethereal doesn't like the way AIX implements the bpf filters. Previously I distributed a binary built from a snapshot, so I prefer having this more stable version (but it came out in February and I hadn't noticed). This package is required to install tcpdump and ethereal. * tcpdump-3.5.0.0.exe network monitoring and data acquisition tool http://www.tcpdump.org/ Again previously I distributed a binary built from a snapshot, so I prefer having this more stable version. * scotty-0.2.21.0.exe Scotty TCL extension http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/ Scotty is a Network Management extension to Tcl. I used to distribute scotty for AIX-4.1, but the "tkined" graphical application would never run properly. Now at least the window opens... * sudo-1.6.3.2.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html For anybody upgrading from v1.5, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. Also fixed a bug for first-time installs. * ijb-2.0.2.0.exe Internet JunkBuster Proxy http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijb.html This is a "web" proxy server that allows URLs matching certain patterns to be filtered out. This is typically useful to block cookies and banner ads. * iozone-3.23.0.0.exe Iozone Benchmark Tester http://www.iozone.org/ This tool performs a wide series of tests on whatever disk io-subsystem its run on, to try to determine its strong and weak points. This release includes support for large-file filesystems. Wed May 10 16:53:51 DFT 2000 * rrdtool-1.0.21.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Its a bit complicated at first but its quite powerful. If you use RRD-Tool, the author can be thanked by buying him a small gift on Amazon.com via his wishlist: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/wish * viewfax-2.4.0.0.exe Viewfax, X11 FAX-file viewer Viewfax displays one or more fax files in an X11 window. The input files may be either raw, single-page faxes received by a fax modem with a program such as mgetty, or tiff files such as those used by hylafax. * libpng-1.0.g.0.exe Library for PNG image format ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src This is the latest version of the TIFF library. Since this lib has been linked as a shared-lib, all programs that use it may experience unexpected problems if you update an existing installation. On the other hand, it *should* work ;-) * iozone-3.21.0.0.exe Iozone Benchmark Tester http://www.iozone.org/ This tool performs a wide series of tests on whatever disk io-subsystem its run on, to try to determine its strong and weak points. * abi-0.7.9.0.exe AbiWord-Personal Word Processor http://www.abisource.com/ This is a Word-compatible word processor for Unix. If I've understood correctly, it can read word .doc files but cannot create them (but it can create .rtf files). It has prerequisites on gtk, glib, libpng and zlib, you'll have to download and install each of these packages. Fri Apr 28 11:36:06 DFT 2000 * SAMBA-2.0.7.0.exe SAMBA, SMB client and server for unix http://samba.org/samba SAMBA allows PC Users to access Unix resources, such as disk space and print queues, without having to install any additional software on the PC. SAMBA is a high-quality freeware, one of the best-known and most-usid freeware utilities. * zip-2.3.0.0.exe Zip - Compression and file packing utility unzip-5.41.0.0.exe Unzip, archiving and compression tool ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/infozip/src/ Unzip and zip allow PC-compatible zipfiles to be created and extracted under AIX. These utilities are used as part of the freeware LPP packaging process. * python-1.5.2.1.exe Python Scripting Language http://python.org/ The initial package I built for Python was missing a lib and some other components. This one seems to work better. * bull.check-1.2.2.0.exe Security Fix checker for AIX 4 Follow the link from the second half of the download page to get to bull-check. Bull-Check was originally designed as "just" a tool to see if any security-related PTFs should be installed on a system, but with the Year2000 it was re-commissioned to check for year2000 PTFs. Its now slowly reverting to its original function. Please refer to the bull.check-1.2.2.0.txt file for more info. Wed Apr 19 13:36:04 DFT 2000 * sendmail-8.10.1.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.10 http://www.sendmail.org/ The reference email Message Transfer Agent (MTA) has been upgraded. This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. * rrdtool-1.0.16.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Its a bit complicated at first but its quite powerful. If you use RRD-Tool, the author can be thanked by buying him a small gift on Amazon.com via his wishlist: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/wish * lsof_aix432-4.49.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. Lsof allows you to list all the file descriptors used by a process (lsof -p ) or all the files open in a filesystem (lsof /tmp), all the IP contexts opened by processes (lsof -i), and I'm sure you'll find lots of other uses. * monitor-2.1.7.6.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE6) * monitor_aix433-2.1.7.6.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE6) http://www.mesa.nl/index_e.html A new release of the indispensable "monitor" utility. Since AIX-4.3.3 has different kernel structures, I built two binaries. The AIX-4.3.3 binary is in the contributions directory. Warning: apparently the binary for AIX-4.3.2 core-dumps in one environment (cf. Fri Apr 7 14:58:20 DFT 2000 * gnu.ghostview-3.5.8.0.exe GhostView Postscript display utility ftp://thep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/gv/ For years I thought that GhostView had stopped at version 1.5. GhostView was one of the very first freeware utilities that I package (and I got the version number wrong...). Don't ask me why I put "gnu." in the LPP name, I suspect that at the time I believed that everything that carried the GPL was part of the GNU project... * sudo-1.6.3.0.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html For anybody upgrading, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.3/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * xpbiff-1.27.0.0.exe popup biff for X ftp://ftp.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/pub/xpbiff/ I have no idea what differences there are between xpbiff and the standard xbiff. A local user asked for this, how could I refuse? * Xaw3d-1.3.0.0.exe Three-D Athena Widgets (Xaw3d) ftp://ftp.x.org This was required for Ghostview, but since it produces a static lib you'll probably never have to install it. Fri Mar 24 15:17:36 NFT 2000 * ImageMagick-5.1.1.0.exe ImageMagick Image Manipulation Utility http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, and PDF. This binary has pre-requisites on *lots* of other tools, including freetype-x.x.x.x.exe, libpng-x.x.x.x.exe, jpeg-x.x.x.x.exe. * glib-1.2.7.0.exe GLib graphics library * gtk+-1.2.7.0.exe Gimp ToolKit GUI Library http://www.gtk.org/ These toolkits are used by many newer freeware packages, and are always delivered as shared libs. * tiff-3.5.4.0.exe TIFF format library http://www.libtiff.org/ This is the latest version of the TIFF library. Since this lib has always been a shared-lib, all programs that use it may experience unexpected problems if you update an existing installation. On the other hand, it *should* work ;-) * ralcgm-3.50.0.0.exe RAL-CGM, CGM metafiles Translator http://www.agocg.ac.uk/Graphics/CGM/ralcgm.html Used by ImageMagick as an external tool * hdf5-1.2.1.0.exe Hierarchical Data Format, v5 http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ optional lib for ImageMagick. With my usual efficiency, I built this *after* building ImageMagick, so you'll have to wait for the next version of ImageMagick to access HDF image-files... * jbigkit-1.0.0.0.exe JBIG-KIT lossless image compression library ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/ As for HDF, this lib *is not* used for this ImageMagick binary, so this LPP is probably pretty useless for the moment. * zlib-1.1.3.2.exe Data compression library ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ I had already built a shared library for this, but due to a typing error I hadn't removed the static objects from the archive file. I wonder which the linker chose... Mon Mar 20 18:20:09 NFT 2000 * contrib/gnu.gdb-4.18.1.0.exe gdb debugging utility (AIX-optimised) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/ This release of GDB has been modified to work on AIX-3.3.3. This modification was developed for IBM, who has allowed it to be distributed in the same way as the standard GBD binary. * expect-5.31.5.0.exe Expect - scripting tool http://expect.nist.gov/ Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs. This version of Expect has a pre-requisite on tcl-8.2.x.x.exe. * tcl-8.2.3.0.exe TCL Scripting language tools v8 http://www.scriptics.com/ Tcl is a scripting language for a wide variety of integration application needs. * tk-8.2.3.0.exe Tk - X11 toolkit based on TCL V8 Tk allows the Tcl language to be used to build interactive X11 GUIs. Fri Mar 10 14:18:05 NFT 2000 * abi-0.7.8.1.exe AbiWord-Personal Word Processor http://www.abisource.com/ This is a Word-compatible word processor for Unix. The "official" 0.7.8 release didn't work on AIX, so I used the latest incremental update. I know, I shouldn't destribute binaries built on unstable sources, but I think this works well-enough to replace the previous word-compatible word processor for AIX (there wasn't one ;-) It has prerequisites on gtk, glib, libpng and zlib, you'll have to download and install each of these packages. * cdrecord-1.8.1.1.exe CD-Recorder burner controller (ALPHA-1) http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html This tool allows cd writers to be controlled from AIX and also allows ISO filesystems to be created. With AIX-4.3.3 and later it is possible to use this tool to make bootable backup CDs... * perl.tk-8.0.15.0.exe Perl interface to Tk-8 http://cpan.valueclick.com/authors/id/NI-S/ This perl module allows a perl programmer to use X11 windows to dialog with users. Check out the tutorial at http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/10/perltk/index.html * sendmail-8.10.0.0.exe Sendmail Release 8.10 http://www.sendmail.org/ The reference email Message Transfer Agent (MTA) has been upgraded. This freeware distribution installs everything in /usr/local, so the standard AIX sendmail is not modified. If you want to use this sendmail instead of the standard AIX one you must manually modify your configuration to stop the standard sendmail and use this one. New in this release: all the configuration files must be placed in /etc/mail. * libxml-1.8.7.0.exe XML parser Library http://rufus.w3.org/veillard/XML/xml.html XML is a standard for building tag-based structured documents/data. Mon Feb 28 18:17:21 NFT 2000 * wv-0.5.43.0.exe wv, library to access microsoft word files http://www.wvWare.com/ This package provides a library and several conversion utilitys to allow Microsoft Word files to be manipulated under AIX. (Includes a DOC-to-HTML conversion, wvHtml) This package requires PNG (libpng-x.x.x.x.exe), zlib (zlib-x.x.x.x.exe), and FreeType (freetype-x.x.x.x.exe) as prerequisites. * gnu.screen-3.9.4.0.exe GNU ASCII Multi-Screen Utility ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu This tool is an absolute must for anyone working on ASCII terminals. It provides a useful multi-window environment on any 'tty' terminal or pseudo-terminal. This is the first freeware I ever used, and I still use it every time I have to log into the console. For example when I have to make a backup I can do that on one screen while reading my mail on another. * webalizer-1.31.6.0.exe Web Server log file analysis tool http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ Useful web log analysis program. This version no longer supports GIF imaged, only PNG ones. PNG images are smaller and faster to read and create. They are supported by (almost?) all web browsers. This LPP has a prerequisite on the GD lib (gd-x.x.x.x.exe), PNG (libpng-x.x.x.x.exe) and zlib (zlib-x.x.x.x.exe). * apache-1.3.12.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html I must have broken my compiler, I can't get the message Expected but saw to go away by itself. So I applied a modif I found in the apache bug reports, and now it works anyway. * libwmf-0.1.17.0.exe libwmf, library to convert wmf files http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html This is a sister-tool to wv, here dealing with Windows Metafiles (wmf) files). * freetype-1.3.1.0.exe FreeType, The FREE TrueType Font Engine http://www.freetype.org/ required as a prerequisite for several other tools, this is a TrueType implementation. * bind-8.2.2.5.exe bind (named) DNS Server program http://www.isc.org/ This is the freeware version of the 'named' server delivered with AIX. The AIX version is a port of V8.1, while this V8.2 implements some new features. * gnu.tar-1.13.0.0.exe GNU Tar ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu This is the freeware version of the 'tar' command delivered with AIX. Personally I use the AIX version, but some people insist on the free one... Wed Feb 16 19:35:00 NFT 2000 * Contributions Contributions http://www-frec.bull.com/download/contrib/00_CREDITS.txt Joerg Petersen has contributed 12 perl modules, for use with IBM's perl LPP. According to Joerg, IBM's perl works on AIX-4.3.2 and later, although its only delivered with AIX-4.3.3, and IBM doesn't seem to have made it available for download... * vnc-3.3.3.1.exe Virtual Network Computing http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ An impressive tool from ATT that lets you access a CDE desktop session from your PC, another AIX, or indeed any Java-enabled web browser. The PC version of this tool lets you access your PC screen from the same set of platforms (another PC, an X-terminal or any Java web browser). All I can say is "wow"... I included a patch for "zlib" compression from http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/VNC_bits/ so this now requires zlib as a prerequisite... * cvs-1.10.8.0.exe CVS version control system http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/info.html CVS is frequently used in Open Source projects to coordinate work between different teams and people. This binary was statically linked to a socks-V4 library, and dynamically linked to libz.a. That means that it supports SOCKS, and that it has a pre-requisite on freeware.zlib.rte * rrdtool-1.0.13.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Several people asked for this. and I think my boss will be looking for me to use this as well.... * gnu.autoconf-2.13.0.0.exe Autoconf - source code configuration utilities This is only for people who are involved in porting freeware to AIX (that reminds me of someone...) * sudo-1.6.2.0.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html For anybody upgrading, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.2/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * cgilib-0.5.0.0.exe The CGI Library http://www.infodrom.north.de/cgilib/ Simple library giving access to CGI variables from a C program. This will be a pre-requisite for future releases of rrdtool. Sat Jan 29 18:16:29 NFT 2000 * ethereal-0.8.2.0.exe Ethereal network protocol analyze http://www.zing.org/ interactive network sniffer and decoder. It uses libpcap and gtk+/glib, so these have to be installed first. This version introduces an ASCII-terminal utility (a bit like tcpdump) and a capture-file edition utility. This package requires glib, gtk, and of course pcap. * postgresql-6.5.3.0.exe PostgreSQL Relational Database http://www.postgresql.org/ I believe that this is the only fully-free database available. Is anybody using the previous binary distribution? Is anybody using a freeware Database under AIX at all? * php3-3.0.14.0.exe Hypertext PreProcessor for Apache http://www.php.net/ This should allow access to the MySQL and Postgresql databases, but I've never tried it. * perl.mod_perl-1.21.0.0.exe Perl module for Apache http://perl.apache.org/ This module allows a perl script to stay running over several http requests, making it very efficient... * sudo-1.6.2.0.exe sudo - Super-User Do http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html This corrects a problem with the version 1.6.1 which made it unuseable on AIX. For anybody upgrading, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.2/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. * apache-1.3.11.0.exe Apache HTTP server http://www.apache.org/httpd.html I must have broken my compiler, I can't get the message Expected but saw to go away by itself. So I applied a modif I found in the apache bug reports, and now it works anyway. * libIDL-0.6.8.0.exe CORBA Interface Definition library This is needed by Mozilla, but I haven't had any success building mozilla (yet!) Wed Jan 19 15:08:06 NFT 2000 * monitor_aix433-2.1.7.4.exe Performance Monitor Program (217-PRE4 for AIX 4.3.3 only) http://www.mesa.nl/index_e.html This is an experimental release for AIX-4.3.3 only. It corrects the memory and CPU information problems, and will work on systems where NFS is not loaded in the kernel (theoreticly). This package is being placed in the "Contributions" directory. Tue Jan 18 15:20:21 NFT 2000 * lsof-4.48.0.0.exe List Open Files ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof The latest in the series. * bull.mklpp-1.2.6.0.exe Light-LPP generation tool This is the tool I use to build all these LPPs. There's nothing really new in this release, but I was explaining to someone how to build LPPs and I realised I'd changed some defaults. * aix.tools-1.5.2.0.exe ldd, chpass, whichlpp, xd, wi, ll, wits I happened to check out the AIX newsgroup and I saw the source for a tool to estimate the clock speed of the CPU. So I bundled the tool into this LPP.... The source code and copyright are in /usr/local/lib/tools/mhz.c (as usual for this LPP). * rrdtool-1.0.9.0.exe RRD-Tool Graphical Display Program http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Tool to generate graphs, typically to visualise network or system statistics. Several people asked for this. and I think my boss will be looking for me to use this as well.... * elm_aix421-2.5.2.2.exe Elm Mail System (In the "contrib" directory). Yes, the one Year2000 casualty. In any case, you should be using "pine" instead of ELM, but several Bull collegues insisted they needed ELM to live. I first built the LPP on AIX-4.3.2, and then a desperate collegue built it on AIX-4.2 and I replaced my binary by his one... Fri Jan 7 17:46:44 NFT 2000 * gimp-1.1.14.1.exe The Gimp Image Manipulation Program http://www.gimp.org/ My second attempt at producing a working binary for Gimp. In the previous binary *none* of the plugins worked, I this one (not really very different), all the plugins (and the modules!) seem to work. I declare this one official. This package has pre-requisite on GTK+ and the GNU Gettext package, but you'll also want to install the Xpm, Jpeg, Tiff (etc..) libraries if you want the corresponding plugins to work... * gimp.perl-1.1.14.1.exe Perl-based plugins and tools for Gimp Same story, the perl plugins didn't work but now they do. For a while I was ready to give up on this one... To install this package you'll also have to install Perl and several modules (perl.pdl-2.0.3.0.exe and perl.gtk-0.61.23.0.exe), as well as the basic Gimp package, of course. * xfig-3.2.3.0.exe Xfig drawing tool (3.2.3-beta-1) http://www.xfig.org/ This is pretty useless without "transfig" (to convert fig files into something more normal). I think one of the Gimp's plugins can read fig files... * transfig-3.2.3.0.exe Trans-fig graphics conversion http://www.xfig.org/ Again, I shouldn't be packaging beta-releases, but sometimes they're the only ones available... Tue Jan 4 17:17:23 NFT 2000 * ethereal-0.8.0.1.exe Ethereal network protocol analyze http://www.zing.org/ interactive network sniffer and decoder. It uses libpcap and gtk+/glib, so these have to be installed first. The plugins (new feature in this release) didn't work first time round, but I think they're OK now. This package requires glib, gtk, zlib, and of course pcap. * libpng-1.0.5.0.exe Library for PNG image format ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src (linked as shared object, so will be prerequisite for other applications) * gd-1.7.3.0.exe A graphics library for fast image creation http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (linked as shared object, so will be prerequisite for other applications) This version no longer supports the GIF format. Thu Dec 30 18:43:22 NFT 1999 * gimp-1.1.14.0.exe The Gimp Image Manipulation Program http://www.gimp.org/ Finally, I got a Gimp-v1.1 to compile and link on AIX. It may even work (why can't I save in a non-Gimp file format?) This package has pre-requisite on GTK+ and the GNU Gettext package, but you'll also want to install the Xpm, Jpeg, Tiff (etc..) libraries if you want the corresponding plugins to work... * gimp.perl-1.1.14.0.exe Perl-based plugins and tools for Gimp To install this package you'll also have to install Perl and several modules (perl.pdl-2.0.3.0.exe and perl.gtk-0.61.23.0.exe), as well as the basic Gimp package, of course. * perl.pdl-2.0.3.0.exe Perl Data Language Module http://pdl.perl.org * perl.gtk-0.61.23.0.exe Perl GTK+ Module ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/perl/ * gnu.gettext-0.10.35.0.exe GNU Internationalisation Utility ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu Thu Dec 23 17:23:32 NFT 1999 * ethereal-0.7.9.0.exe Ethereal network protocol analyze http://www.zing.org/ interactive network sniffer and decoder. It uses libpcap and gtk+/glib, so these have to be installed first. This is an impressive tool, but I haven't used it much *yet*. I think I'll be talking about this to everyone as much as I did for VNC... * libpcap-0.4.1999.1223.exe Packet Capture Library http://www.tcpdump.org/ recompiled to use the "dlpi" interface, since ethereal doesn't like the way AIX implements the bpf filters. I really shouldn't distribute a pure snapshot, but since its linked as a shared libriary it will be easy to replace it with the final version. In principle, at least. This package is required to install tcpdump and ethereal. * tcpdump-3.4.1999.1223.exe network monitoring and data acquisition tool http://www.tcpdump.org/ Another snapshot, but you don't have to upgrade your tcpdump if you're already using one that was dynamically linked with libpcap.a, just plug in the new libpcap.a... * zlib-1.1.3.1.exe Data compression library http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ recompiled to make a shared libriary. I'm getting good at this... This package is required to install tcpdump and ethereal. * glib-1.2.6.0.exe GLib graphics library * gtk+-1.2.6.0.exe Gimp ToolKit GUI Library http://www.gtk.org/ These toolkits are used by many newer freeware packages, and are always delivered as shared libm. gtk+ is a big package (10MBs uncompressed). * jpeg-6.0.2.0.exe JPEG v6b lib and utilities ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/ The latest version. In addition the library was linked as a shared object, so it will appear as a prerequisite of other packages that are (hopefully) coming, like xfig and "the gimp". * xpm-3.4.11.0.exe XPM (X PixMap) utility library v3.4k http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html (I bet you didn't know that this was another Bull contribution to humanity!) The latest version. In addition the library was linked as a shared object, so it will appear as a prerequisite of other packages that are (hopefully) coming, like xfig and "the gimp". Thu Dec 16 15:17:17 NFT 1999 * python-1.5.2.0.exe Python Scripting Language big package, 14MBs uncompressed. But some people swear by it. The 'make test' passes except for "popen2". I put the result of the 'make test' into /usr/local/lib/python1.5/make.test I haven't tried using this, I don't know the first thing about python. * sudo-1.6.1.0.exe sudo - Super-User Do For anybody upgrading, read the file /usr/local/lib/sudo-1.6.1/UPGRADE as soon as you install. The syntax of /etc/sudoers has become a bit more permissive. Tue Dec 7 09:01:06 NFT 1999 * lsof-4.47.0.0.exe The latest in the series. * libpcap-0.4.0.0.exe Packet Capture Library finally this lib seems to be working. I had to tweak the berkley packet filter pseudo-code generator to get it to work properly. The lib is linked as a shared lib, so tools that use it will require it as a prerequisite... * tcpdump-3.4.0.0.exe uses libpcap. I don't know what the advantages are with-respect-to the standard tcpdump, but the command-line options are a bit different... * perl.net.pcap-0.3.0.0.exe contains 2 perl modules that use libpcap to capture packets in a script. * perl.netpacket-0.1.0.0.exe some packet decoding routines. But it doesn't do telnet, pity... * monitor-2.1.7.1.exe recompilation of the previous binary to allow monitor to handle up to 256 disks... * vnc-3.3.3.0.exe a fiendishly impressive tool from ATT ( http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ ) that lets you access a CDE desktop session from your PC, another AIX, or indeed any Java-enabled web browser. The PC version of this tool lets you access your PC screen from the same set of platforms (another PC, an X-terminal or any Java web browser). All I can say is "wow"... The binaries in this package were compiled on AIX-4.1.5 (I stole them from http://www.idsi.net/~bshma/chuck/vnc.html