An update for BIND 9 has been added to the updates area to fix a critical denial of service vulnerability. The updated packages are at:

• ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/updates/exportable/R1/bind-9.6.1-1.ppc.rpm
• ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/updates/exportable/R1/bind-devel-9.6.1-1.ppc.rpm
• ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/updates/exportable/R1/bind-utils-9.6.1-1.ppc.rpm
• ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/updates/exportable/SRPMS/bind-9.6.1-1.src.rpm

WARNING:

I had to nuke a couple of patches to make this thing build, and one of those involved the locations for the config files. It looked like they weren't needed anymore anyway, but apparently they were. I just discovered this issue, and I've decided it isn't worth spending another 24 hours to roll another build that doesn't have the problem since it's so easy to work around. Before upgrading from previous versions of BIND 9:

sudo mkdir /usr/var
sudo mkdir /usr/etc
cd /usr/etc
sudo ln -s /etc/named.conf .
sudo ln -s /etc/rndc.conf .

After making those changes, the upgrade process should be fairly painless if you are upgrading from a previous BIND 9. If you are upgrading from the old BIND 8, you're probably in a world of hurt, starting with the hassle of generating an rndc key or modifying your configuration to disable it.... :-D

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A time zone update is now available on the ftp site to correct for a change in U.S. Daylight Savings Time (DST) schedule. To install, download the file tzdata-2007c-1.el4.noarch.rpm (DR2.1 and newer) or usr_share_zoneinfo.tar.gz (DR2 and earlier) from the updates area on ftp.mklinux.org, then run one of the following commands (as appropriate):

sudo rpm --install tzdata-2007c-1.el4.noarch.rpm --replacefiles    # RPM version
cd / ; sudo tar -xvpf /path/to/usr_share_zoneinfo.tar.gz           # tar version

Or, if your version of MkLinux does not have RPM (MkLinux R2 and earlier), type:

sudo rpm --install tzdata-2007c-1.el4.noarch.rpm --replacefiles

Check the time. If it is correct, you're done. Otherwise, the /etc/localtime file was probably incorrectly created as a hard link or copy instead of a symbolic link. To fix this, first try the following command:

sudo tzselect

The tzselect utility will prompt you to choose a new time zone. If that works, you're done. If that fails (or if your system does not have tzselect), type the following commands (as appropriate):

cd /etc                                               # change to /etc
sudo rm -f localtime                                  # remove the old localtime file
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT localtime      # for Eastern time only
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT localtime      # for Central time only
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST7MDT localtime      # for Mountain time only
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT localtime      # for Pacific time only

Note: the extra RPM option to overwrite files is necessary because most MkLinux versions did not ship with a separate time zone info package, and it wasn't worth the effort to build a patched RPM for multiple ancient versions of glibc. As a fortunate side effect, however, this single tarball or RPM (if installed as described above) should work with any version of MkLinux from DR1 up through R2 on any CPU architecture that MkLinux has ever supported.

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Mon 12 March, 2007

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PS. The links are near the bottom of the page.....

Sun 11 August, 2002

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Tues 6 August, 2002

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Mon 5 August 2002

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Mon Jun 21 2002

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Mon Jul 31 2000

CAVEATS:

• Sound is not supported yet. That's the next priority....
• SCSI is working, but rather slow. It's partially hardware at fault, and partially a lack of pseudo-DMA code. Oh well. It "mostly works." As always, your mileage may vary.
• Serial is untested. It should work, but again, YMMV.

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Mon Jul 31 2000

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Mon Dec 20 1999

Jon Harms is providing space for publicly displaying the preliminary designs at MkLinux CD Designs. We hope to provide a polling booth so that you can vote on the look of your new distribution.

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Sat Dec 11 1999

I have the way to add to the project but viewing the list of people without adding an item is not currently allowed. I will add that in the near future.

To add yourself to the list please visit: MkLinux Counter

This will allow you to add to the database and once you add yourself then you will be able to see the last 100 users entered. After a day or two I will have the ability to list ALL users that are entered, behind a password. This password will stop email SPAM scanners of web pages.

To see the current list visit: showall and enter user name mklinux and password mklinux.

Jon Harms

The MkLinux Team

Fri Oct 29 1999

If you haven't heard, the ftp site has a very limited number of anonymous ftp connections available. Since ftp.mklinux.org is currently being serviced over MontaVista Software's DSL line, we've had to limit the number of people who can access the site. So please, people, download the distribution from one of the mirror sites.

For the next couple of days, we are going to be playing around with the organization of the ftp site. Directories and files are likely to move around frequently, while this is ongoing. The situation should stabilize before the end of the week. During this time, the rpm2html database pages may have many broken links. Please be patient. We hope to improve the site in the long run, but we will have to go through a brief period of chaos to get there.

The MkLinux Team

Mon Oct 18 1999

More than 90 packages were upgraded and about 20 new packages were added. A brief listing of the most important changes:

• Upgrade to SysVinit-2.77
• Upgrade to XFree86-3.3.5
• Upgrade to glib-1.2.5 and gtk-1.2.5
• Upgrade to most of the gnome packages
• Upgrade of WindowMaker to 0.61.1
• Upgrade of e2fsprogs
• Upgrade of dump-restore
• Upgrade of rpm package

Addition of KDevelop and Kdbg. Our current packages are lacking the Qt and KDE API documentation. As a result, the online help currently doesn't work. I intend to fix this problem soon, but I thought people might like to play with these packages while I'm working on it.

Addition of Sawmill window manager and related packages. (librep, rep-gtk, sawmill, sawmill-gnome)

Addition of Pan, a gnome based news reader. Pan is still pretty rough, but it shows some promise. You should probably only try it if you want to give the author some feedback about problems.

Addition of many non-English ispell dictionaries.

Known Problems which have been fixed.

The Glade package was failing to install an important file needed for converting glade's XML format into C code. As a result, glade would core dump if you attempted to generate source code from your project. This problem has now been fixed.

The utility last (from SysVinit) no longer reports crashes erroneously.

There is a caveat to upgrading the SysVinit package. Your machine may not shutdown cleanly the first time after upgrading this package. I don't know if the event was an aberration on my system or not, but the first time after upgrading e2fsprog and SysVinit, my system paniced during the final stage of the shutdown process. This may be completely unrelated to the package upgrades. Before placing this package on the server, I rebooted my machine multiple times to see if the event recurred. It never did.

Portsentry has been modified to shut down correctly with the newer versions of initscripts. In order to fix this problem, I've reworked how portsentry is integrated into the system. If you are running portsentry and you choose to upgrade this package, you should probably shutdown the currently running daemon before upgrading the package. Then restart the daemon after the upgrade. This will prevent a trivial error message when shutting down the system.

Many packages which would not build properly with gcc-2.95.1 and later have had work arounds provided. Among the list of such files are Mesa, cdf, and many C++ programs that don't meet the latest compiler's strict standards for function prototypes.

Known Problems which have not yet been fixed.

The current version of xfig still core dumps on start up. This is a compiler induced bug. Unless we can trace down the compiler bug which is generating this bad code, we will probably have to rebuild the package with an earlier compiler.

Gnorpm 0.9 doesn't seem to work correctly with the current version of rpm. Still looking for a solution. :-(

Have fun! We're getting close, people.

The MkLinux Team

Mon Oct 11 1999

We do have a number notable changes. First, we've decided not to taunt Apple's lawyers by making eMac the default enlightenment theme on the distribution. The theme is still part of the distribution (for now), but you have to select it yourself if you wish to use. The default enlightenment theme is now minEguE. It's a terrible name with a simplistic, unobtrusive appearance.

I've been holding off on updating some of the gnome packages while the gnome-print libraries went through some growing pains. The print facilities are somewhat operational, so I've updated Gnumeric, the spreadsheet program, to the latest version. Printing is still problematic, so don't expect too much.

Printing works now in AbiWord. If you haven't tried this word processor, you should give it a try.

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Sun Sep 12 1999

We have made a number of security updates to packages in the pre-R1 distribution. The affected packages are telnet, wu_ftpd, traceroute, netkit-base, libtermcap and tcp_wrappers.

The new set of compilers is available. Gcc 2.95.1 is the successor to the egcs compiler set.

The MkLinux Team

Wed Aug 30 1999

We've added an rpm2html database to the mklinux.org web site. The index can be viewed with any web browser. You will find it useful to track the addition of new packages to the distribution. It can also we used to determine package dependencies, discover what package installs a particular file and even to view the package change logs.

Note: The rpm2html database has since been removed.

Jaime has posted the Quicktime file of the recorded interview for the perusal of the MkLinux Community. The file is embedded in the document, so you will need to use a web browser with a quicktime plugin to hear the recording.

Check it out at http://www.wcbn.org/it/IT0010.html

Monday, July 26, 1999

The archive file is available at ftp.mklinux.org.

Thanks, Takashi!

Monday, July 5, 1999

#!/bin/bash
set -x
if [ $# != 0 ]; then
  for x in `find $1 -name Root`;
  do
    path2=`dirname $x`
    oname=$x
    savename=$path2/Root.orig
    cp $oname $savename
    sed "s/globegate\.utm\.edu/mklinux\.org/" $savename > $oname
  done
else
  cp ~/.cvspass ~/.cvspass.orig
  sed "s/globegate\.utm\.edu/mklinux\.org/" ~/.cvspass.orig > ~/.cvspass
fi

retarget_cvs /path/to/root/of/tree

This will correctly retarget each directory in the tree to access mklinux.org. Since you must be logged into the repository to update, you will either need to login to mklinux.org as you did for globegate, or run the script without a command line argument. This will modify the .cvspass file in your home directory to point to mklinux.org instead globegate.utm.edu.

Be sure that you run the script as the user who is logged into the globegate!

Tuesday Jun 22, 1999

The complete set of banners is available here or by clicking on the banner at the bottom of www.mklinux.org's home page.

Sunday May 30, 1999

This installer should be considered a pre-release alpha version. (Only because I've never tried it.) The installer isn't an official distribution of mklinux.org...at this time. However, it is likely to be the basis for a CD distribution produced by the group behind mklinux.org, so we need people to pound on it and let us know what works and what doesn't.

Please let Kaoru Fukui know of any problems which you have with the installer. A good way to do this would be through the mklinux-setup mailing list.

Sunday May 30, 1999

Well, now you have a chance! We, here at www.mklinux.org, want to begin a regular column giving users a chance to tell their stories. Perhaps you have used MkLinux to manage a small network? Perhaps you have used it to work as a file server in a small business? Perhaps you were able to get PPP working the first time?! If you have solved an interesting technical problem, we encourage you to send us your story.

The publication frequency of the column will depend upon the number of contributions we receive, but we promise to keep them coming at least on a monthly basis even if we have to write them all ourselves. In fact, David Gatwood has already volunteered to write the first column. He has promised us a "State of the Union" message on MkLinux.

If you need or want an editor or coauthor, we will be happy to provide those services. Just remember, the success of this effort is up to you.

Thursday May 27, 1999

This site was developed by the MkLinux community, for the MkLinux community. Our thanks go to many volunteers for generous contributions of money, equipment, services, etc.

Thanks especially to Gilbert Coville and Rich Morin for financial contributions and our domain name registration and to MontaVista Software for our Internet connection.

In the coming months, we hope to become a regular stopping place for you on the web. Our goal is to keep you abreast of the latest developments in the MkLinux community and to provide you with the resources to make MkLinux a powerful and enjoyable tool for your daily work.

Rather than put up an all too familiar "Under Construction" sign, I'll simply state that this site went "live" with only 24 hours notice. Only a tiny fraction of the content planned by the web team was available on that first day, and we are still working to create content. So keep an eye on the site and watch us work.

Welcome again to the New MkLinux.org!