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conserver 7.2.0 is available
7.2.0 is finally ready! Not much has changed since 7.2.0-beta3 (a good
thing, really) but a heck of a lot has changed since 7.1.4. I highly
suggest folks upgrade - the ability to send a HUP and reconfigure
conserver without kicking off all your clients can be a great asset
(according to my inner-circle of friends who are also users/testers).

Here's the complete list of changes since 7.1.4. I hope everyone
enjoys new the features.

version 7.2.0 (Mar 12, 2002):
- check for valid baud rates (invalid resulted in '0') -
reported by Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
- a broadcast messages to others on your console can now be
sent via ^Ecb

version 7.2.0-beta3 (Feb 25, 2002):
- allow for 57600 and 115200 baud rates - patch by Andreas
Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
- TCP traffic now escaped according to Telnet protocol
- the highly desired dynamic reconfiguration of conserver is
here! the HUP signal now triggers a read of the
configuration file and adjustment of consoles
- configure flags shown in -V output

version 7.2.0-beta2 (Feb 14, 2002):
- new -W client option for showing who's attached to a single
conserver master - suggested by Dave Stuit <djs@gnac.com>
- maxfiles() clashes with HP-UX 11 'maxfiles' variable - patch
by Adam Morris <AMorris@providence.org>
- removed use of socklen_t type for better compatibility
- removed TELCMD/TELOPT use for compatibility

version 7.2.0-beta1 (Jan 29, 2002):
- static structures and strings are now dynamic in server
- MAXGRP (--with-maxgrp) has been removed as it's now dynamic
- new -m server option for setting the maximum consoles per
process - the default is still set with --with-maxmemb
- new -i client option (and ^Eci) that displays console
information in a machine-parseable format
- two debug levels (second level by using two -D options)
- ANSI prototypes and definitions (when available)

Bryan Stansell
Re: conserver 7.2.0 is available [ In reply to ]
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Bryan Stansell wrote:
> 7.2.0 is finally ready!

Yay!

I went ahead and RPM'd it for deployment here at the OSDL, and found that
I had to change the last few lines of the conserver.spec file to:

%{prefix}/share/man/man1/console.1.gz
%{prefix}/share/man/man8/conserver.8.gz
%{prefix}/share/man/man5/conserver.cf.5.gz
%{prefix}/sbin/conserver

in order for it to build on Red Hat 7.1. I added share/ to the man path
and changed conserver.cf from (8) to (5).

With this, an rpm -ba worked nicely. Looking forward to the .deb.
Re: conserver 7.2.0 is available [ In reply to ]
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:27:54AM -0800, Aaron Burt wrote:
> in order for it to build on Red Hat 7.1. I added share/ to the man path
> and changed conserver.cf from (8) to (5).

i've updated the source so that it matches what you did. i *think* it
was a redhat 6.X bundle i was given - it's definitely time to move to
7.X. anyone know if there's a certain syntax to make it work with both
(and future) versions?

> With this, an rpm -ba worked nicely. Looking forward to the .deb.

me too! anyout out there have one? or can someone put one together??

i was going to look into some of this stuff myself, but i'm hoping
there are a couple of experts out there with immediate answers. i'm
going to bury my head in the code instead... ;-)

Bryan
Re: conserver 7.2.0 is available [ In reply to ]
>> With this, an rpm -ba worked nicely. Looking forward to the .deb.
>
> me too! anyout out there have one? or can someone put one together??

Actually, 7.1.3 has been available for a while
in the Debian woody and sid distribution.

And 7.2.0 will be there in a while. :-)
(At least in sid, woody is about to be frozen.)
Re: conserver 7.2.0 is available [ In reply to ]
>> With this, an rpm -ba worked nicely. Looking forward to the .deb.
> me too! anyout out there have one? or can someone put one together??

Deb files are available at ftp.axis.se:/n/ftp/pub/users/jh/conserver
and they are also uploaded to Debian main archive.