Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 23
[Posted June 9, 2003 by ris]
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| Sascha Schwabbauer <cybersystem@gentoo.org> |
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| gentoo-gwn@gentoo.org |
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| [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 23 |
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| Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:37:57 +0200 |
[Editor's Note: Kurt Lieber is on vacation this week, so this week's GWN is
being published by Sascha Schwabbauer]
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 9th, 2003.
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1. Gentoo News
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Summary
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* Announcing Gentoo on MacOS X
* Hardened Gentoo demonstrates SELinux
* Open positions in the Gentoo Linux project
Announcing Gentoo on MacOS X
----------------------------
We're pleased to announce that the Gentoo platform will soon be available
for MacOS X. This means that users will be able to enjoy the the power and
simplicity of the Gentoo platform and Portage where they happen to be, on
the operating system they are currently using -- even if that operating
system isn't GNU/Linux. We want to give our users more choices than anyone
else, including the ability to use non-GNU operating systems and non-Linux
kernels if they have that particular requirement or desire.
We are currently getting our infrastructure ready (mailing lists, project
page, etc.) for this project and integrating Portage for MacOS X into our
mainline Portage sources. News about further developments will be posted
on the Gentoo news page[1] as well as in future editions of the GWN.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/
Hardened Gentoo demonstrates SELinux
------------------------------------
Hardened Gentoo is proud to announce that we have made available a machine
to demonstrate some of our technology. The machine is available via ssh to
illustrate SELinux, an advanced mandatory access control system. The
reason we are providing this to everyone is to show everyone the
significance of the work we are doing.
What this machine is:
* A Gentoo installation secured with SELinux, running several daemons for
testing in a production environment.
What this machine is not:
* A chrooted installation
* A uml installation
* A userland restricted shell (ie: rbash)
* A honeypot/honeynet
* A completely useless and stripped down machine
* Impervious to DoS attacks (don't DoS or forkbomb, it doesn't do
anything except annoy people and stop others from enjoying the machine)
* A workstation; the main focus is on servers, running selinux on
desktops is possible, but not currently supported
root is a real user with UID=0, nothing in addition to SELinux has been
used to secure this machine so that we can demonstrate how SELinux works.
Feel free to try and obtain higher access on the machine, and take a look
at dmesg to see the denials when they occur.
Without further ado, please visit http://selinux.dev.gentoo.org for root
login information.
Anyone who is interested in this, and would like to know when it's ready
for most users and after it's been tested in production environments
should subscribe to the gentoo-hardened@gentoo.org mailing list and come
to #gentoo-hardened on irc.freenode.net. Our project page at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened will also be updated when status
changes occur.
Open positions in the Gentoo Linux project
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The following Portage packages are currently in need of a maintainer. If
you are interested in taking one of these positions, please send an e-mail
to recruiters@gentoo.org with your full name, location, Linux (and
especially Gentoo) experience, areas of expertise, and level of experience
with the particular application in question.
If you're unsure about what level of experience any of these tasks
require, try searching http://bugs.gentoo.org for open bugs on the package
name to get a feeling for the type of experience and skill necessary for
that particular package.
We will make every effort to respond to each email personally. However,
due to the sheer volume of email that we receive, please accept our thanks
in advance in case we're not able to respond to your email
* XFree86
* Scheme
* Emacs/XEmacs
* courier
* Wine/Winex
* OpenOffice
* Keychain
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2. Gentoo Security
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Summary
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* GLSA: tomcat
* GLSA: uw-imapd
* GLSA: maelstrom
* GLSA: apache-2.x
* New Security Bug Reports
GLSA: tomcat
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The tomcat servlet creates the /opt/tomcat directory with privileges that
permit local users to read files that contain passwords.
* Severity: High - Local password compromise.
* Packages Affected: net-www/tomcat prior to tomcat-4.1.24-r1
* Rectification 1: Synchronize and emerge tomcat, emerge clean.
* Rectification 2: /etc/init.d/tomcat stop ; chmod -R 750 /opt/topcat/ ;
/etc/init.d/tomcat start
* GLSA Announcement[2]
2. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58013
GLSA: uw-imapd
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The UW-imapd IMAP daemon can also be used as a client. By default, any
authenticated user is permitted to connect to the server, even in
restricted operating modes. Exploiting this vulnerability could be used to
gain access to the system as the logged-in user.
* Severity: High - Remote authentication compromise.
* Packages Affected: net-mail/uw-imapd prior to uw-imapd-2002d
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge uw-imapd, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[3]
* Advisory[4]
3. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57718
4. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105294024124163&w=2
GLSA: maelstrom
---------------
The game maelstrom has a buffer overflow that could permit a local user to
execute arbitrary code.
* Severity: Moderate - Arbitrary code execution, limited to users with
local access.
* Packages Affected: app-games/maelstrom prior to maelstrom-3.0.6
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge maelstrom, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[5]
* Advisory[6]
5. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57717
6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105337792703887&w=2
GLSA: apache-2.x
----------------
Apache 2.0 servers are subject to a remote Denial-of-Service attack
through the mod_dav (and possibly other) mechanism. This vulnerability is
a result of a configuration bug that causes the server to be thread-unsafe
in certain configurations.
* Severity: Moderate - Remote DoS.
* Packages Affected: net-www/apache-2.x prior to apache-2.0.46
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge apache, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[7]
* Advisory[8]
* Advisory[9]
7. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57720
8. http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.html
9. http://www.idefense.com/advisory/05.30.03.txt
New Security Bug Reports
------------------------
The following new security bugs were posted this week:
* app-text/ghostscript[10]
* app-emulation/xmame[11]
* net-www/mod_gzip[12]
* app-i18n/kon2[13]
* sys-apps/man[14]
* net-ftp/atftp[15]
10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22254
11. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22255
12. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22256
13. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22258
14. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22260
15. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261
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3. User stories
===============
The guys behind breakmygentoo.net
Figure 3.1: The team of breakmygentoo.net
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20030609_breakmygentoo.jpg
This week we feature the people who took care of all the CVS ebuilds left
homeless by the "Great Portage CVS Purge '03", Matthew Schick
(lin_matt[16]) and Karl Abbott (karl11[17]).
16. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2799
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2881
So who are these guys who so desperately try to break your Gentoo? Karl is
currently a Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Southern
Mississippi (USM) and 21 years old. He uses Linux as his operating system
of choice since September 2001. Matthew Schick, 27, works as systems
administrator at USM's computer science department. A Linux user since
1998 he tried various distributions including Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake
and Debian before deciding to go with Gentoo Linux in May 2002. He
recently switched the department's main server successfully from Red Hat
7.2 to Gentoo Linux, and is currently looking into the viability of
migrating all the lab's machines (around 100) sometime during this summer
as well.
Once upon a time in Gentoo land...
breakmygentoo.net[18] originated from a site called "Ebuild Central". The
purpose of this site was to have a place to share "home-grown" ebuilds
among Gentoo users locally as well as having a place to link to from the
forums. The quicktime enabled MPlayer ebuilds were hot at that time and
after exceeding the bandwith of Karl's site[19] both of them knew they had
to find another solution.
18. http://breakmygentoo.net
19. http://99b.org
Unexpected success
So Matt talked to one of his clients in Los Angeles and obtained some much
needed space and bandwidth for the site in December of 2002. After a
little while of going only with an IP address, Matt and Karl decided that
a domain would be necessary, and thus breakmygentoo.net was born in
February 2003. The name was decided on as both a warning and a
tongue-in-cheek joke for anyone hitting the site. Even during those times
they simply expected the project to be a way of sharing ebuilds amongst
themselves and a few people who might be interested in the same types of
software. For the first few months, the site was simply a listing of the
ebuilds in the directory. But it soon became obvious that there was a high
demand, and just a few weeks ago, Karl created a frontend for the site and
then announced[20] the launch of the new site. With that launch comes the
project's own bugzilla, giving brave Gentooists the ability to submit
ebuilds and bug reports that they encounter with all the CVS ebuilds out
there.
20. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56667
With the release of GNOME 2.3.2 has come some of the highest usage the
site has ever experienced. The fans of breakmygentoo.net have also helped
identify several potential bugs, both on the Gentoo side as well as in
some of the GNOME software. This gives Gentoo users an opportunity to play
with what many people regard as the most exciting release of GNOME so far.
Some stats
In January Matthew and Karl started to keep track of the site's stats
using Webalizer[21]. At this time they had a daily average of 117 and a
monthly total of 3650 hits, whereas in May they experienced an average of
927 hits a day which amounted to a total of 28,748 page hits at the end of
the month. The first two days of June already saw more than 10,000 hits
which makes one think about all the people out there trying to break their
Gentoos... ;-)
21. http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Final words
Here's what they have to say:
Matt: "breakmygentoo.net has become an unlikely resource for folks that
enjoy bug hunting (or just playing) in the realm of unstable software.
Hopefully some of the information that's gained through the usage of the
ebuilds on the site will contribute to the overall quality of the stable
releases."
Karl: "breakmygentoo.net came out of the necessity for a shared space for
development ebuilds. I never could have imagined it becoming as widely
used as it is today."
Also both of them would like to express their thanks to everyone who has
contributed to the site!
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4. Featured Developer of the Week
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Joshua Brindle, aka Method
Figure 4.1: Joshua Brindle, aka Method
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20030609_method.jpg
Joshua Brindle[22] is in charge of several security-related Gentoo
projects, acting as liaison between the teams and Gentoo proper in
addition to participating and getting his hands dirty. The biggest one is
Hardened Gentoo, which Joshua himself started a few months ago and now
boasts five active developers and the official SELinux play machine
mentioned earlier in the newsletter. Joshua is also working on the
integration of Propolice stack smashing protection[23] into Gentoo; he and
his team are very close to getting it into the default profiles. With all
this security work he hasn't been able to participate in SPARC development
(when Joshua joined first the team in November 2002 it was as a SPARC
developer), he's really proud of how far he and his teams have come in
such a short time and hopes to continue to progress and show the world
what Gentoo is really made of.
22. method@gentoo.org
23. http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
An undergraduate studying for a BS in System Network Management, and
working as UNIX administrator at Southern Nazarene University, Joshua's
favorite applications are actually mostly servers: Apache, PHP, exim,
MySQL, and openSSH. While he usually runs Linux on servers, on the rare
occasions when he runs it on a desktop he uses KDE, Konqueror, and
Evolution, as well as VMWare (which he wishes were open). His hobbies
include watching the Simpsons, drinking Dr. Pepper, partying, clubbing,
and playing Warcraft III. Joshua lives in Oklahoma but is from Texas! (he
says that people who live or have lived in Texas would understand). When
he graduates next semester and starts hunting for a job, he says he'll be
sure to put in an application at the NSA.
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5. Heard In The Community
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Web Forums
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Much Ado About Macintosh
Drobbins' announcement of Gentoo/Mac OS X and the new LiveCDs for the
PowerPC architecture have rippled the waves quite considerably last week.
A few people are discussing the virtues of Portage vs. Fink or
Darwinports, others suddenly express revived interest in Macintosh
emulators on x86 for Linux, and the lead dev for PPC dropped by to ask for
hardware loans of oldworld Macs and PReP machines (i.e. IBM RS/6000 etc.)
that he could use for testing the LiveCD:
* Gentoo on OSX[24]
* Macintosh emulators[25]
* Great ! the new LiveCD ! Fantastic bombastic ![26]
* liveCD boots on /dev/hda but my HD is now not available[27]
* Oldworld machines needed[28]
24. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58616
25. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58687
26. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58261
27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58827
28. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58662
Ximian Desktop 2 Port
Not many of the Gentoo developers are also forum regulars, since most of
them prefer the mailing lists or the IRC channels. But when link[29]
suddenly announced that he was starting work on a port of Ximian's Desktop
2, due out in the market this week starting 9 June 2003, the devs came
flocking in to offer advice and help and wish him luck:
29. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1794
* The Gentoo XD2 port project[30]
30. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58568
gentoo-user
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Laptops and Gentoo
In the beginning, only the most devout hackers with a basement full of
luck were able to get Linux running properly on their laptops. The quirky
hardware, screens and suspend modes boggled driver developers, leaving
many features disabled or abandoned. Fortunately the increasing demand has
fueled the maturation of laptop-centric drivers, and installing Linux on a
laptop is now considered childs play. The good news is that the whole
community feels that all distibutions considered, Gentoo Linux is an
excellent choice for laptops. One reason for this is Gentoo's tendency to
stay on the cutting edge of latest stable software. Armed with the ACPI
patches of the 1.4rc4 LiveCD, Gentoo'ers should experience a smooth ride
while running a base system on their laptop. Heat was mentioned as an
important issue due to Gentoo's propensity to stress the CPU while
compiling for extended periods on sometimes indadaquately cooled laptops.
Finne Boonen solved[31] this by placing the laptop on bricks. Another
issue was that of sound dying after returning from safe mode. Jason
Nielson let us know his solution here[32]. In a seperate thread[33] Cedric
Veilleux asked which vendor of laptop should be purchased. Many great
recommendations were given, including Chris Meidinger's submission of
linux-on-laptops.com[34]. All in all, Gentoo Linux is recommended as a
viable solution for laptops, and that you are encouraged to try it out.
31. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/35333
32. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/35417
33.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C2
00306042035.03298.cedric%40neopeak.com%3E
34. http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
* Laptop + Gentoo[35]
* Which laptop vendors officially support linux?[36]
35.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C2
00306041702.23524.johnny%40johnnys.info%3E
36.
http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C2
00306042035.03298.cedric%40neopeak.com%3E
gentoo-dev
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This week has seen many smaller threads, however interesting. And one of
them in particular:
(FS) Attributes for Ebuilds?
Using the file system as a sort of extra database functionality for
portage. So as to allow for, maybe faster searches or expanded
categorization.
This idea[37] came as a followup, by Michael Kohl, to the earlier
discussion about categories[38] in portage.
37. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/9121
38. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/9084
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6. Gentoo International
=======================
Italian Gentoo Propaganda Machines Roundup
Enrico Morelli, initiator of Gentoo Linux Italia[39], has recently closed
the unofficial forum he maintained on a university server in favour of
inviting everyone to join the official Italian forum[40]. His excellent
website continues to be around, of course. And now there's yet another
unofficial Gentoo website in Italy[41]: Joe and Stefano Lucidi have
concocted a PHP-driven website based on Postnuke, and included a broad
range of Gentoo-centric information with news directly off the frontpage,
a user forum and a few other gimmicks including AvantGo PDA-formatted
infos. The Italian mailing list[42] the duo established is also quite
successful.
39. http://www.gentoo.it
40. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=41
41. http://gentoo-italia.ath.cx/
42. http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/gentoo-it/
Journ$BC)e des Gentooistes
As reported earlier, the French Gentooists are discussing the date and
venue for a Gentoo user meeting in France. The preliminary verdict seems
to point in the direction of a meeting in Paris, sometime after the
infamous rentr$BC)e when millions of French head back to town from their
summer vacation. A web forum[43] set aside exclusively for coordinating
the details is waiting for people to express their opinions.
43. http://sebweb.homelinux.org/viewforum.php?f=2
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7. Portage Watch
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The following notable packages were updated or added to portage this week
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* sys-kernel/ac-sources: Full sources for Alan Cox's Linux kernel[44]
44. http://www.kernel.org/
The following stable packages were updated or added to portage this week
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* app-dicts/aspell-en: [45]
* dev-perl/Apache-DBI: Apache::DBI module for perl[46]
* dev-perl/AppConfig: The Perl CGI Module[47]
* dev-perl/Archive-Tar: A Perl module for creation and manipulation of
tar files[48]
* media-fonts/arphicfonts: Arphic Fonts[49]
* net-fs/am-utils: amd automounter and utilities[50]
* net-www/adzapper: redirector for squid that intercepts advertising,
page counters and some web bugs[51]
* sys-libs/cracklib: Password Checking Library[52]
* x11-plugins/asmem: Memory statistics monitor utility for X Windows[53]
* x11-plugins/fsviewer: file system viewer for Window Maker[54]
45. http://www.gnu.org/projects/aspell/index.html
46. http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
47. http://search.cpan.org/author/ABW/AppConfig-1.52/
48. http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Archive/${P}.readme
49. http://www.arphic.com.tw/
50. http://www.am-utils.org
51. http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/
52. http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/
53. http://www.tigr.net
54. http://www.bayernline.de/~gscholz/linux/fsviewer/
Total categories: 82
Total packages: 4564 (86 packages added since last week)
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8. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
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Due to server problems last week, this week's statistics are based on
the 14 day period between 23 May 2003 and 5 Jun 2003
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[55]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. In the last 14 days, activity on the site has resulted
in:
55. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 471 new bugs during this period
* 326 bugs closed during this period
* 10 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 3259 currently open bugs: 54 are labeled 'blocker', 133 are labeled
'critical', and 253 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are:
* The XFree Team[56], with 20 closed bugs[57]
* The KDE Team[58], with 19 closed bugs[59]
* Todd Berman[60], with 18 closed bugs[61]
* Martin Holzer[62], with 18 closed bugs[63]
* The Mirror Administrators[64], with 17 closed bugs[65]
56. xfree@gentoo.org
57.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23&chfieldto=2003-06-05
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=xfree%40gentoo.org
58. kde@gentoo.org
59.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23&chfieldto=2003-06-05
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde%40gentoo.org
60. tberman@gentoo.org
61.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23&chfieldto=2003-06-05
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=tberman%40gentoo.org
62. mholzer@gentoo.org
63.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23&chfieldto=2003-06-05
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mholzer%40gentoo.org
64. mirror-admin@gentoo.org
65.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23&chfieldto=2003-06-05
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mirror-admin%40gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs this
week are:
* The Perl Team[66], with 66 new bugs[67]
* Nicholas Jones[68], with 23 new bugs[69]
* The x86 Kernel Team[70], with 13 new bugs[71]
* Martin Schlemmer[72], with 12 new bugs[73]
* Dylan Carson[74], with 10 new bugs[75]
* Ryan Phillips[76], with 10 new bugs[77]
66. perl@gentoo.org
67. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=perl%40gentoo.org
68. carpaski@gentoo.org
69. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org
70. x86-kernel@gentoo.org
71. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=x86-kernel%40gentoo.org
72. azarah@gentoo.org
73. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org
74. absinthe@gentoo.org
75. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=absinthe%40gentoo.org
76. rphillips@gentoo.org
77. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-23
&chfieldto=2003-06-05&=&assigned_to=rphillips%40gentoo.org
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9. Tips and Tricks
==================
Combining Commands with For
This week's tip shows you how to run similar commands in a loop to avoid
typing in the same command over and over again. For example, untarring
several tar.gz files. Or perhaps renaming files with similar extensions.
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| Code Listing 9.1: |
| for and tar |
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| |
|# for n in *.tar.gz; do tar -zxvf $n; done |
| |
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This next instance demonstrates removing the .dist extension of several
files.
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| Code Listing 9.2: |
| for and mv |
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| |
|# for n in *.dist; do mv $n `basename $n .dist`; done |
| |
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If necessary, you could combine it with find to rename all .phtml files in
/home/httpd/htdocs to .php
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| Code Listing 9.3: |
| for and find |
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| |
|# cd /home/httpd/htdocs |
|# for n in `find -type f -name '*.phtml'`; \ |
| do mv $n `basename $n .phtml`.php; done |
| |
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10. Quote/Signature of the week
===============================
This week's featured .sig was seen on gentoo-dev in a message[78] from
Pascal Bourguignon: "Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in
reality." Or maybe it's just a fault in the matrix? ;-)
78. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/9011/
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11. Moves, Adds and Changes
===========================
Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
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