Anyone running 8.0.0 through 8.0.5 should really consider upgrading to
8.0.6. The reason? NULL characters in console data will cause data
loss. Unfortunate, but true. The good thing is it doesn't happen very
often.
The really cool thing in this release is the calculation of port
numbers. This way, you can specify the formula a terminal server or
serial card uses to access the various ports and then use those physical
port numberings (1 through n) in console definitions...and conserver
will do the math of what socket to access or what device to open. The
'portbase', 'portinc', 'devicesubst' and 'execsubst' are the various
items that play a role. I've given some examples (for terminal servers)
in conserver.cf/conserver.cf.
There are many other things added and improved. The manpages will give
a little bit more detail on the specifics. Here's the complete list of
changes:
version 8.0.6 (Nov 16, 2003):
- code was missing regarding the 'setproctitle' option - patch
by Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
- fixed the order of access list checking when
--with-trustrevdns is used
- fixed various spelling errors - patches by Matt Selsky
<selsky@columbia.edu>
- added console 'idletimeout' and 'idlestring' options to
trigger the sending of 'idlestring' after a lack of activity
for 'idletimeout' seconds - suggested by Ian Potts
<ian.potts@db.com>
- added console 'portbase' and 'portinc' options to allow
specifying a formula for referencing ports - inspired by Todd
Stansell <todd@stansell.org>
- fixed problem where console 'port' option didn't take port
names (manpage said it did)
- added server -U option and configuration option 'unifiedlog'
to allow a copy of all console activity to go to a single file
- removed all sprintf() calls
- added 'devicesubst' and 'execsubst' console options for doing
replacements with calculated port numbers on the 'device' and
'exec' values
- NULL characters in console data caused data loss because of
strlen() usage - reported by Toby Gerhart <toby.gerhart@eds.com>
- fixed a couple errors in contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.spec -
reported by Martin Evans <m.d.t.evans@qmul.ac.uk>
- added capability to use '!' in user access lists to prevent a
user from having access - suggested by Matt Selsky
<selsky@columbia.edu>
Bryan Stansell
8.0.6. The reason? NULL characters in console data will cause data
loss. Unfortunate, but true. The good thing is it doesn't happen very
often.
The really cool thing in this release is the calculation of port
numbers. This way, you can specify the formula a terminal server or
serial card uses to access the various ports and then use those physical
port numberings (1 through n) in console definitions...and conserver
will do the math of what socket to access or what device to open. The
'portbase', 'portinc', 'devicesubst' and 'execsubst' are the various
items that play a role. I've given some examples (for terminal servers)
in conserver.cf/conserver.cf.
There are many other things added and improved. The manpages will give
a little bit more detail on the specifics. Here's the complete list of
changes:
version 8.0.6 (Nov 16, 2003):
- code was missing regarding the 'setproctitle' option - patch
by Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
- fixed the order of access list checking when
--with-trustrevdns is used
- fixed various spelling errors - patches by Matt Selsky
<selsky@columbia.edu>
- added console 'idletimeout' and 'idlestring' options to
trigger the sending of 'idlestring' after a lack of activity
for 'idletimeout' seconds - suggested by Ian Potts
<ian.potts@db.com>
- added console 'portbase' and 'portinc' options to allow
specifying a formula for referencing ports - inspired by Todd
Stansell <todd@stansell.org>
- fixed problem where console 'port' option didn't take port
names (manpage said it did)
- added server -U option and configuration option 'unifiedlog'
to allow a copy of all console activity to go to a single file
- removed all sprintf() calls
- added 'devicesubst' and 'execsubst' console options for doing
replacements with calculated port numbers on the 'device' and
'exec' values
- NULL characters in console data caused data loss because of
strlen() usage - reported by Toby Gerhart <toby.gerhart@eds.com>
- fixed a couple errors in contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.spec -
reported by Martin Evans <m.d.t.evans@qmul.ac.uk>
- added capability to use '!' in user access lists to prevent a
user from having access - suggested by Matt Selsky
<selsky@columbia.edu>
Bryan Stansell