1 08Jan02=======================================================================
2 1. altered sh/qrz to point to the new server
3 06Jan02=======================================================================
4 1. fix leading space removal from messages input from the keyboard
5 2. make some mods to allow perl 5.7.2 to run
6 3. create $DXProt::eph_restime to allow variable slugging of ephemeral dups
7 4. create $DXProt::eph_info_restime to allow a long dupe time for these
8 5. create $DXProt::eph_pc34 to allow a short anti dupe slug for rcmd loops
9 6. Add a new sysop cmd 'save' which will save the output of any command (or
10 list of commands in "<cmd>") to a file.
11 7. Add a new command "echo" which echos its argument to the screen (useful
12 for titling in the save command above.
13 8. Increase interval between logins causing for/opernam to 60 days (from 30)
14 + a random factor between 0 and 9.
15 9. Added Italian translation of Messages from Luca IT9ROT (thank you
17 10. Added the /<cmd> feature (as in talk) to execute a cmd whilst typing a
18 message, then enhanced it so that if you do //sh/dx (for instance) it will
19 put the result into the message (as well as show it to you).
20 11. Added the // feature to talk as well.
21 02Jan02=======================================================================
22 1. updated the copyright dates
23 2. modernised and extended the Windows instructions a bit.
24 3. added a TODO file which is the list of things that I need to do. Please
25 badger me to put YOUR enhancement on this list. It will then get done.
26 31Dec01=======================================================================
27 1. Make a couple of changes to the Installation Manual and add a FAQ on msg
29 2. Fix unset/register so it works (g0vgs)
30 30Dec01=======================================================================
31 1. make PC21 coming from the channel's node call then treat it as a PC39 and
33 2. Send the client a 'Z' command (shutdown) to see if this has any effect on
35 26Dec01=======================================================================
36 1. make some detail changes to help texts
37 2. Added 'all' to the Band's region table to allow 'acc/spot on all/cw'
38 23Dec01=======================================================================
39 1. allow sh/dx on 1000/4000 (or 1000-4000).
40 2. merge sh/dx and sh/dxcc commands (Alias sh/dxcc to sh/dx dxcc). You can
41 now do things like 'sh/dxcc oq2 by w dxcc'.
42 20Dec01=======================================================================
43 1. Fix 'not' in filtering
44 2. alter default max spots to 100 and the no of WWV to 5
45 17Dec01=======================================================================
46 1. added new satellite stuff from Steve K9AN. Fixed upper/lower problem
48 2. enhanced load/keps to accept a message no. This will create a new keps
49 file from a msg (hopefully containing 2 Line Nasa keps) and then load - all
50 in one step. Added load/keps to the help files
51 3. Updated spanish Messages
52 4. Improve wcy command from Stephan DK8LV's input
53 5. Added set/prompt (and unset/prompt) command so that Stephan can fool some
54 external programs into thinking it is talking to clx.
55 15Dec01=======================================================================
56 1. added superfluous spaces back into PC73 for the benefit of clx
57 14Dec01=======================================================================
58 1. make Spanish in set/lang & Messages 'es' instead of 'sp'
59 2. added prototype WCY and WWV commands (for qualified users only)
60 3. Added Commands_es.hlp contributed by Angel EA7WA
61 12Dec01=======================================================================
62 1. added Commands_de.hlp contributed (in record time) by Stephan DK8LV.
63 2. fixed help command so it uses it!
64 11Dec01=======================================================================
65 1. make PC17 generation more unconditional
66 08Dec01=======================================================================
67 1. added unset/hops command
68 02Dec01=======================================================================
69 1. Fix spurious 'new message for you' messages if things are deleted but
71 2. stop remote passive nodes (those with version numbers of 0000) from
72 poluting the nodes table. Maybe this will make things slightly more stable.
73 3. Take off rspf checks on announces and spots and allow the dupe filters
75 4. Move the dupe checking AFTER the input filtering for announces and spots.
76 5. Changed the checking of PC19/21 that it doesn't alter the wrong node
77 6. Alter the storage of messages so that illegal characters are stored as '.'
78 in an attempt to stop such messages from hanging.
79 26Nov01=======================================================================
80 1. Make changes to the installation manual to show making the client before
81 actually trying to use it! Thanks to oz1lqh. Also add a line for SuSE
83 22Nov01=======================================================================
84 1. finally fix DELETE = ^H = Backspace in console.pl
85 21Nov01=======================================================================
86 1. altered the PC16/17 generation slightly to see whether this cures Roland's
88 19Nov01=======================================================================
89 1. added Ducie Island to prefixes
90 17Nov01=======================================================================
91 1. updated the Java Web Interface from Ian, m0azm to allow passwords. If
92 a user with no password enters anything, including null, it is happily
94 2. added the German language to the Messages file from Stephan, dk8lv
95 14Nov01=======================================================================
96 1. make the number of characters of the dx comment dependant on the type of
97 connection. This should mean that 'legacy' user programs can cope.
98 2. move the handling of unprintable characters out of IntMsg
99 07Nov01=======================================================================
100 1. fix is_pctext so that it actually catches corrupt spots and announces.
101 2. fix console.pl so that you can type in '0' again
102 3. Fix problem with reply disappearing up its own bottom.
103 4. Added Steve's latest sh/moon stuff
104 06Nov01=======================================================================
105 1. fix read so that sysop reading doesn't increment the read counter for
106 private mail not addressed to them.
107 2. fix console.pl to show blank lines more reliably.
108 3. fix msgs so that 2 R: lines are only stored on initial entry (not just
110 04Nov01=======================================================================
111 1. Allow the user to equal the node in RSPF checks (this allows spots and
112 stuff with the origin and spotter to be the same (although it is STRONGLY
113 recommended that they are NOT!!! [hint hint]).
114 2. make the send command rather more sensitive to what is allowed. Basically
115 it will only allow TO addresses that are bull addresses (if not private) or
116 vaild callsigns (if private). Bull addresses are the ones in
117 /spider/msg/forward.pl with a 'T' flag on them. If there is no forward
118 file it will only allow 'ALL' and 'DX' as valid Bull TO addresses. You may
119 use commas as callsign separators if you like.
120 02Nov01=======================================================================
121 1. fixed some Aliasing problems, but this whole area will have to be addressed
122 more comprehensively.
123 2. Changed talk logging so that it hopefully is more consistant and maybe even
125 3. Altered the mechanism of the personal emailing so that it uses lower level
126 components and should be therefore available on M$ platforms. You will need
127 to install a version of libnet (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then install Net::SMTP).
128 I believe all 5.6.x perls have this built in (ie M$ should have this). If you
129 are on M$ or you want to use an MTA via SMTP in linux then you need to declare
130 the dns name of the MTA by: set/var $DXMsg::email_server = 'post.fred.net'
131 (or whatever the MTA is called). You can also use local programs other than
132 sendmail by: set/var $DXMsg::email_prog = '/usr/bin/postfix ..' or whatever.
133 Finally you can alter the 'from' address using: set/var $DXMsg::email_from
134 = 'FBloggs@msn.com' (\@ if you use " and ") - bewarned that you may be
135 prevented from using just any old address. You can place these commands in
136 /spider/scripts/startup for permanent use.
137 01Nov01=======================================================================
138 1. added information on registration, login scripts and passwords to the
139 26Oct01=======================================================================
140 1. If $main::reqreg = 1 then set/register will allow 'registered' users
141 full access, if $main::reqreg = 2 then registered users will be 'read-only'
142 (ie the opposite). If $main::reqreg = 0 then registration and its effects
144 25Oct01=======================================================================
145 1. added unset/password command to allow sysops (only) to completely delete
146 and remove a user's password.
147 2. make 'read' increment the 'no of times read' for all messages.
148 3. give a read receipt for everybody that reads a message so marked.
149 4. enhance set/email so that if you set email address(es) with this command
150 it will send any messages to your callsign as they come in. unset/email
151 will disable forwarding.
152 24Oct01=======================================================================
153 1. added (un)set/register, show/registered commands which when a 'set/var
154 $main::reqreg = 1' is done in the startup script will require users to
155 be 'registered' in order for them to have 'write' access to the node. Non-
156 registered users will only be allowed to TALK or SEND PRIVATE to the cluster
158 2. Added password interrogation to the ExtMsg connections. If a user comes
159 in via telnet and this is being done with the internal listener and a pass-
160 word has been set for that user - he will be asked for it. You can force
161 a password interrogation (for ALL users) with a 'set/var $main::passwdreq = 1'
162 in the node's startup script. It is anticipated that if you are using
163 registration you will also issue passwords to those registered users.
164 3. set/password has been changed so that users already with passwords can
166 4. A non-registered user will get the /spider/data/motd_nor file instead of
168 5. made the BadWord regexes slightly less aggressive WARNING this may let
169 some constructions thru, but hopefully will also allow more legitimate
170 foreign (mainly) things thru as well.
171 19Oct01=======================================================================
172 1. Allow DELETE (0x7f) for backspace in console.pl
173 2. redo prefix table using latest cty.dat
174 14Oct01=======================================================================
175 1. Add the shortform SH/ST like display to sh/user <call> to make it more
176 AK1A compatible (G0RDI+G4PDQ pace).
177 12Oct01=======================================================================
178 1. make del nnn delete messages again (fix system Aliases file)
179 2. substr the subject so that the dup works for stuff coming back via AK1A
180 09Oct01=======================================================================
181 1. change Aliases to allow shutdown as a command again. If you have changed
182 /spider/cmd/Aliases and you update from CVS you may find it better to remove
183 this file and then do another 'cvs update'. Otherwise you may get conflicts
184 and the Aliase file will not load properly. The cvs update will recreate
185 the (now) missing file.
186 2. Remove the 'please don't use XXXX on here' messages to prevent people
187 from exploring the 'bad words space'. Three bad words will still disconnect
189 3. Sending dx spots/announces with bad words will succeed - but only back to
190 the sender. These two mods are designed to annoy the perpitrators of the
191 sort of filth as much as possible whilst not inconveniencing 'normal' users.
192 4. Add expunge feature to kill. Deleting messages now marks a msg for
193 deletion two days hence. To have the old behaviour, do a 'kill exp' or use
194 the standard alias "expunge". This will cause the message to be deleted at
195 the next queue message cycle.
196 5. Put in prototype echo handling for direct connections using ExtMsg and
198 6. fix msgs to g1tlh-2 (as opposed to g1tlh)
199 04Oct01=======================================================================
200 1. allow a residence time of (default) 2 days before actually deleting a msg.
201 2. reduce the number R: lines on a bull from a bbs to 2 (the origin and the
203 3. ignore deleted messages for queuing purposes
204 4. store deleted status across restarts!
205 5. make callsign checking more rigorous
206 6. dup check PC49 (kill full)
207 7. improved the regex matching of badwords (more efficient, better coverage)
208 8. added default badword and badw_regex tables (as .issue files) which will
209 activate unless there is one there already. It will NOT overwrite an existing
210 file - so if you change it your changes will remain intact.
211 03Oct01=======================================================================
212 1. don't allow @WWW to become a 'TO' field...
213 2. handle @gb7tlh.#35.eu type addresses as well
214 02Oct01=======================================================================
215 1. fixed the 'ever lengthening msg' syndrome and probably made the whole
216 thing more reliable at the same time.
217 2. do some restructuring of the msg system and upissue the version no.
218 3. fix @xxxx syntax for bbs input
219 01Oct01=======================================================================
220 1. made login info not the default
221 2. change the looping protoection for PC16/17/19/21 and also be more rigorous
222 in who we accept which PC16/17/21's from.
223 3. fix MAJOR disconnect bug introduced accidentally in the NP work.
224 4. Try each badword with an S on the end as well and also check for 'f.u c'
225 type things as well (this only works for a few wellknown english ones).
226 5. Go back to the old way of caching commands (but without the silly warnings
227 because I know better what I am doing now). This allows symbolic debugging
228 of commands again without coredumps. Hurrah!
229 6. Add badword handling for messages. Users will get rude messages back if
230 they try to send naughty words in msgs. Incoming messages with badwords will
231 be dropped on receipt and their contents logged.
232 7. and if you swear 3 or more times you are unceremoniously logged out.
233 30Sep01=======================================================================
234 1. made some small bug fixes in rspf checking and also messages.
235 23Sep01=======================================================================
236 1. I have incorporated Steve's (K9AN) lastest sh/sun and sh/moon stuff which
237 copes much better with some of the end effects that occur in these calc-
238 ulations. You can now also see up to a year into the past or future. The
239 results compare favourably with the US Naval Obs (unlike certain other
240 software's output which "I would not want to use their results to aim my
241 moon rocket..."). It also fixes some ambiguity about which day the results
243 21Sep01=======================================================================
244 1. fix set/lockout so that it is possible to lock out all SSIDs except those
245 specifically unlocked and so that you don't need to lock the non-SSID call in
246 order to lock an SSID call. So set/lock g1tlh will lock out all instances of
247 g1tlh, g1tlh-1, g1tlh-15 etc except (for instance) unset/lock g1tlh-9.
248 2. show/lock allows partial callsign matching so sh/lock gb7 will only show
249 GB7* calls that are locked.
250 3. Had a grand shift around for the start of NP.
251 19Sep01=======================================================================
252 1. put in some rudimentory rsfp checking for various things
253 2. tried to do some fixes on console.pl - YOU WILL REQUIRE Curses 1.06 from
254 CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then at cpan> install Curses).
255 17Sep01=======================================================================
256 1. Fixed help and apropos commands so that they default to english if
257 the language is not english and help in the 'not english' language isn't
259 2. added some help text for sh/newc.
260 15Sep01=======================================================================
262 2. found 1st bug, fixed unset/logininfo reseting itself after logout
263 14Sep01=======================================================================
264 1. added the start of script files on login/startup. You can now add
265 commands (for example to set variables) to a file called
266 /spider/scripts/startup. You can also put in scripts for a callsign which
267 will be executed when that callsign logs on. A sample script is in the
268 directory (you did remember to do cvs update -d?). User settable versions
269 of this will happen when the general mechanism for doing that is available.
270 2. Added set/unset/anntalk commands. If you unset/anntalk then you will
271 no longer see many of the of talk like announces. Unfortunately you may
272 miss the odd useful one as well (but since everything is repeated many times
273 you probably won't :-)
274 3. centralise the invalid callsign check so that g1tlh1 and similar calls
275 will not be allowed to login anymore.
276 4. Fiddle with the lockout mechanism so that set/login g1tlh also locks out
277 g1tlh-1 -> g1tlh-15 UNLESS one of these is specifically unlocked.
278 5. Make sh/log only show stuff that sh/ann, sh/talk, sh/rcmd doesn't.
279 6. Make the scripts look for user and node_default files if there isn't a
281 7. add the blank command which prints nn blank lines (default 1), this cmd
282 can also print lines of characters: see help for examples.
283 13Sep01=======================================================================
284 1. did some work on making talk more intelligent and fixed a>b problem.
285 2. fixed a nasty problem on input when being hit with full buffers of
286 data (eg at init time with large lists of node/users on fast links).
287 3. fixed realtime input filter changing.
288 4. added announce->talk conversion for routable calls when announces of the
289 form 'to g1tlh hello', 't g1tlh hello' or 'g1tlh hello' appear.
290 This also suppresses similar announces for users whose callsign is not the
292 5. Change the badwords interface to be the same as baddx, badspotter et al.
293 added set/badword, unset/badword and show/badword. This routine will auto
294 convert (and delete afterwards) the old badwords file.
295 6. fix intermittant bullitin mail forwarding?
296 11Sep01=======================================================================
297 1. added IP address logging of connections
298 10Sep01=======================================================================
299 1. clear/* node_default and user_default now work.
300 2. in acc or rej/* you can now use (comma separated) prefixes as well as lists
301 of numbers for things like *_dxcc, *_itu and *_cq (eg: by_dxcc ve,w); just
302 remember that countries like ve and w have lots of zones and itus!
303 3. Added all the clear/* commands to help and added some comments about 2.
304 4. All filters (including *_default ones) are now reinstalled on channels in
305 realtime, so changing a filter does NOT require a disconnect and reconnect
307 09Sep01=======================================================================
308 1. Add show/dxstats command
309 2. Add show/hfstats command
310 3. Add show/vhfstats command
311 4. Add show/hftable command
312 5. Add show/vhftable command (BE WARNED, the first time you run one of these
313 commands it will take some considerable time to complete, thereafter it will
315 08Sep01=======================================================================
316 1. Update the sgml docs on filtering a bit.
317 06Sep01=======================================================================
318 1. prevent nodes appearing as users from incoming PC16s
319 2. Change ping averaging to be like TCP and become a smoothed RTT.
320 3. Make all the Prompts in stat/* like output appear in alphebetical order
321 4. Fix problem with 17m spots not appearing in sh/dx
322 5. pump up eph dups everytime they re-occur and increase life to 180 secs
323 04Sep01=======================================================================
324 1. add delete/user command
325 03Sep01=======================================================================
326 1. make spot dups look back 5 mins.
327 2. strip the top off each character in any text field of a Spot for duping.
328 3. Try to make the routing tables more accurate for users that login to
330 4. Make PC50s come out in one heap on all channels every 14 mins, instead of
331 on the 14th minute in the connection time for each channel. This should
332 reduce (slightly) the dups that are dumped.
333 5. Speed up input queue processing (a lot).
334 6. make set/isolate and acc/route mutually exclusive (and issue appropriate
335 error messages) and fix set/iso on PC18 input.
336 7. Improve stat/route_node and stat/route_user for diagnostics.
337 8. strip top bit of comments in ann/spots.
338 9. fix the announce filtering problem.
339 10. Fix the double announcement of node disconnections?
340 01Sep01=======================================================================
341 1. Change build number calc (hopefully for the last time)
342 27Aug01=======================================================================
343 1. make rej/wwv and rej/wcy work
344 26Aug01=======================================================================
345 1. make all newly learned nodes locked out by default.
346 2. add lock_nodes.pl which locks out all the nodes in the user file whose
347 privilege is 1 or less and which isn't mentioned as an argument to the
348 command on the command line.
349 3. make set/node, set/spider and their friends unlock a node as well as make
351 4. Make sh/log et al more efficient / less memory hungry (and the display
352 the correct way round!)
353 24Aug01=======================================================================
354 1. Allow badmsg to reject on interface callsign ('I')
355 20Aug01=======================================================================
356 1. protect against PC41s with field[3] == field[2]
357 2. Redo Julian stuff as proper objects
358 3. Make the various Log display come out forwards instead of backwards
359 4. Add the dbgclean routine to system cron to clear out all debug files
360 more then 10 days old.
361 19Aug01=======================================================================
363 2. make isolation when there are no filters present work again?
364 3. dup check PC16/17/19/21 !
365 17Aug01=======================================================================
366 1. Sort out PC41 handling to include type 5 records for QRA locators and also
367 remove all filtering (but retain ephemeral dup checking).
368 2. Improve format checking in latlong and qra locators.
369 3. Sort sh/st so that sh/st by itself displays only the local call not the
370 whole lot (all 17000+ users records in my case). SH/ST ALL does this.
371 16Aug01=======================================================================
372 1. send a forward/opernam for a logged in user once a month (when they next
374 2. rearrange rcmd stuff to be more maintainable and also be certain that
375 they are translated in both directions correctly for clx and ak1a style.
376 3. Allow PC41s to be propagated and hope that the ephemeral dup filters
378 15Aug01=======================================================================
379 1. fix problem with talks not coming out anymore
380 13Aug01=======================================================================
381 1. fixed problem of dxspots not being echoed back to spotter (announces too)
382 02Aug01=======================================================================
383 1. correct manual and help references on accept/route and reject/route. Thanks
384 to ea1dav for pointing out the errors
385 2. make sure that the actual line is printed in grepdbg & watchdbg esp. with
386 ALL the '^' and leading space characters as they really are
387 30Jul01=======================================================================
388 1. changes to manuals to add links etc. (g0vgs)
389 23Jul01=======================================================================
390 1. made ann,dx spots,wwv,wcy,wx more 'object oriented'.
391 2. allow for 'enhanced clients' and tell them what sort of thing is being
393 3. Allow debug info to be sent via interface to an enhanced client.
394 21Jul01=======================================================================
395 1. started a gtkconsole program. It appears to sort of work. Requires Gtk-
397 2. start doing some spot statistical stuff.
398 19Jul01=======================================================================
399 1. changes to Admin Manual to reflect route filtering. Some alterations to
400 the help files (g0vgs)
401 09Jul01=======================================================================
402 1. fix cron so that it allows stuff to be executed on the hour (ie min=0)
403 06Jul01=======================================================================
404 1. fix talk and routing problems to mycall
405 2. add unset/privilege command to relinquish any sysop privileges you might
406 have for the current session.
407 05Jul01=======================================================================
408 1. disconnect channels whose route node has disappeared
409 29Jun01=======================================================================
411 28Jun01=======================================================================
412 1. fix problems with users on more than one node
413 27Jun01=======================================================================
414 1. try adding an ARC mail hack
415 2. slug the not here messages so they can't loopback
416 25Jun01=======================================================================
417 1. added automatic 'not here' message
418 21Jun01=======================================================================
419 1. fix (some) problems with 'init'
420 2. fix stat/msg a bit more
421 3. small change to PC28 generation to make sure that the subject always
422 contains at least a blank
423 16Jun01=======================================================================
426 14Jun01=======================================================================
427 1. changed debug api to (potentially) use less cpu time
428 2. changed the spider.cgi in Arnold's borrowed java client to Ian's perl
430 3. Added input route filtering
431 4. put back the set/isolate logic into routing which is now overridable with
432 filters whcih means a default filter is no longer generated. If you want the
433 OLD behaviour, do rm /spider/filter/route/*.pl*, restart and try again.
434 5. Add http_proxy to Internet.pm and allow sh/qrz to use an HTTP Proxy
435 13Jun01=======================================================================
436 1. fix init cnd rinit cmds
437 2. add missing clear/route cmd
438 10Jun01=======================================================================
439 1. fix set/here and unset/here
440 2. fix indirect routing to users two hops away
441 09Jun01=======================================================================
443 2. add set/debug filter so that you can see why your filters aren't working
445 3. add ephemera deduping for all those PC41,24,50 etc etc broadcasts
446 4. Fix a problem with the connect text being sent on outgoing connections
447 (this confuses db0fhf amongst other things)
448 5. catch deep recursion bugs before you run out of memory.
449 6. Make sure that PC16|17|19|21 update as well as add and delete
450 7. local announces by the sysop will always be displayed
451 08Jun01=======================================================================
452 1. first cut with new routing code. Created NEW_ROUTE branch
453 2. added acc/route and rej/route commands
454 3. added stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands to look at the routing
456 07Jun01=======================================================================
457 1. move userconfig.pl and nodeconfig.pl to stat/
458 2. fix problem with locally connected users not being removed from the
460 3. Fix the build calc to take into account subdirectories
461 06Jun01=======================================================================
462 1. add stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands
463 2. add sh/userconfig command (to show backward links to nodes)
464 3. add sh/nodeconfig command
465 05Jun01=======================================================================
466 1. add set/bbs command
467 2. more work on Routing code.
468 3. status/msg on its own will print the status of the msg system.
469 4. add sh/newconfig command
470 03Jun01=======================================================================
471 1. Fix the problem with ExtMsg and unresolvable IP addresses, hopefully
473 15May01=======================================================================
474 1. set/lockout now prevents any outgoing connection taking place.
475 2. Started the new routing stuff which will run in parallel for a while.
476 3. changed the msg timeout arrangements so that it might not get stuck so
478 4. add $DXMsg::bulltopriv global to make msgs to known callsigns private
479 14May01=======================================================================
480 1. fix problem with re-reading in db definitions for remote databases.
481 2. try to prevent situations where two can (semi) successfully login, probably
482 under load, and get a 'tried to connect whilst already connected' abort.
483 3. change the max number of days to search for spots to 100
484 11May01=======================================================================
485 1. allow stat/msg on priv 1
486 07May01=======================================================================
487 1. set/page 0 switches off paging
488 03May01=======================================================================
489 1. It appears that for ages now, not enough PC19 and PC16s are being sent
490 if you have more than one of them. Sigh..
491 02May01=======================================================================
492 1. put an upper limit on the number of concurrent errors allowed in command
493 mode (20). This should disconnect runaway spot suckers....
494 28Apr01=======================================================================
495 1. fix an occasional problem with 'sorry connected to' messages
496 23Apr01=======================================================================
497 1. fix very long standing bug in storing and transmitting spots. The decimal
498 point was left off :-(
499 22Apr01=======================================================================
500 1. Sysops can now have full privileges if there is a ExtMsg listener on
501 localhost (or everything) and they telnet to localhost and login with their
502 callsign. This means that they don't need a client anymore (for local access)
503 2. added input spot filtering.
504 3. Added run_cmd to DXCron which allows you to run any command on the system
505 from the crontab. (Dunno why I didn't do this before).
506 18Apr01=======================================================================
507 1. added Ian M0AZM's Java Client (SpiderConsole)
508 17Apr01=======================================================================
509 1. made a slight speedup on write in Msg.pm (about doubled it)
510 16Apr01=======================================================================
511 1. make the correct error messages come out on reject/accept when people
512 leave out keywords like 'on'.
513 2. Fairly major changes to the documentation tree. Split the admin manual
514 into 2 sections, Installation and Admin and merge the Windows stuff.
515 15Apr01=======================================================================
516 1. made some mods to the sgml documentation for 1.47
517 2. added show/connect command
518 11Apr01=======================================================================
519 1. fixed more of the "xxx disappeared from yyy" messages
520 2. altered the build no logic so that it always checksums the same files
521 regardless of whatever else you might have in the directory.
522 3. made shortcut at shutdown so that you don't get a storm of PC21s on busy
523 nodes as each connection goes down. Just send a pc39 to each interface and
525 4. changed action of SIG{INT} and SIG{TERM} so that they now work on MSWin32
526 10Apr01=======================================================================
527 1. altered PC21 logic somewhat to eliminate dup PC21s
528 2. disconnect should remove dangling local users in the routing table.
529 3. fixed nasty recursive timer bug
530 4. added some extra info to make connect tracking a bit easier.
531 5. improved docs on connect scripts a bit (to include agw connects)
532 09Apr01=======================================================================
533 1. changed lockfile name to cluster.lck (from .lock) for MSWin's benefit
534 08Apr01=======================================================================
535 1. added a quick installation guide to the admin manual and removed references
537 01Apr01=======================================================================
538 1. changed agwrestart semantics. You need to use main::agwrestart() in your
539 crontabs rather than AGWMsg::init();
540 2. try to thread winclient.pl for MSWin32.
541 31Mar01=======================================================================
542 1. added agwrestart command
543 2. add Iains Windoze installation manual (g0vgs)
544 3. various alterations to adminmanual and initial version of the CVS changes
546 30Mar01=======================================================================
547 1. fix errors on accept in ExtMsg and in Msg
548 2. fix the non-blocking problems of connects (and other things in general).
549 non-blocking only works for unix implementations at the moment.
550 3. add rinit command (sends a PC20)
551 4. improve debuging so that stuff is always escaped and a new 'raw' debug
552 mode that shows everything sent and received in glorious hex and characters
553 29Mar01=======================================================================
554 1. add better tracking of AGW circuits (possibly)
555 2. add set and unset/agwmonitor (ing) [for all the notice it seems to take]
556 28Mar01=======================================================================
557 1. AGW engine stuff now accepts incoming calls and at least attempts to do
559 2. fixed 'always' telnet on a client line in a connect script
560 27Mar01=======================================================================
561 1. add first cut at an AGW Engine. Copy /spider/perl/AGWConnect.pm to
562 /spider/local and edit it appropriately. You shouldn't need a login and passwd
563 if you are using the default setup. It may allow incoming connects (and then
564 again it may not - I don't have a reliable infrostructure to test with at the
565 moment). The AGW Engine is a M$ thingy, but that don't preclude you connecting
566 to it from a unix box.
567 22Mar01=======================================================================
568 1. edit the helpfile for set/debug and add help for show/debug
569 2. Allow ^Z again on messages
570 3. Added back onboard support for ax25 OUTBOUND connections. You will need
571 exactly the same facilities as before (ie netrom_call, ax25_call suid root
572 etc) but it is called direct from the cluster.pl - client.pl is DEAD!
573 19Mar01=======================================================================
574 1. Add 'not allowed' messages into sh/filter with callsign and reduce priv
575 2. decode %xx characters in winclient.pl
577 18Mar01=======================================================================
578 1. minor changes to user and admin manuals. Added revsion numbers
579 17Mar01=======================================================================
580 1. put block check back in, try a work around for EWOULDBLOCK/EINPROGRESS
582 16Mar01=======================================================================
583 1. integrate build number into main cluster and change the PC18 to show
584 version and build in the text portion
585 14Mar01=======================================================================
586 1. first cut at outgoing ax25 /external program connects
587 2. slight change of interface to connect
588 3. added a build number to sh/version
589 13Mar01=======================================================================
590 1. implemented first cut at non blocking connect
591 2. removed memory leakage in connects
592 3. add link IP address if available on who
593 4. made the \r\n work correctly on External connections
595 6. fixed memory leakages in DXMsg
596 7. fixed pc39/21 handling
597 8. fixed routing table issues and general disconnection tidy up
598 10Mar01=======================================================================
599 1. minor changes to the admin manual to reflect differences in distibutions
600 thanks to pa3ezl (g0vgs)
601 2. add (finally) the first draft of the usermanual (g0vgs)
602 05Mar01=======================================================================
603 1. do some major surgery on the connect logic to shorten the possibility of
604 duplicate connects happening
605 2. fix stupid error on sh/qrz queries that don't work
606 04Mar01=======================================================================
607 1. allow fallback to english for help
608 03Mar01=======================================================================
609 1. allow incoming and outgoing IP connects direct to cluster.pl
610 2. fixed (long standing)a hole in PC17 handling
611 3. added winclient.pl (actually just a very basic client) from Iain G0RDI
612 4. Added Spanish as a language (thanks ea1dav) (g0vgs)
613 5. ignore BUST(ED) spots
614 28Feb01=======================================================================
615 1. allow sh/c gb7 (ie show the config of all gb7 nodes)(for example)
616 2. get rid of spurious DXHash 'uninitialised' messages if no corresponding
618 3. changed policy of $censorpc in DXProt.pm so that badwords are looked for
619 in all text announces etc.
620 4. Unpad (remove excess spaces from) spotted callsigns in PC11.
621 5. test for opertaing system in various places and do different if M$
622 27Feb01=======================================================================
623 1. allow partial node callsigns on sh/c (eg sh/c gb7)
624 2. Changed Msg.pm to allow a more generalised interface with more than one
626 3. Added IntMsg.pm to implement the internal connection management that is
627 currently scattered about the cluster code.
628 25Feb01=======================================================================
629 1. Fixed watchdbg so that simple arguments work again
630 22Feb01=======================================================================
631 1. Added platform name to sh/version
632 2. changed client.pl so that it send \r\n instead of \n on telnet connects
633 3. added lineend '\r\n' command to connect scripts so you can override
635 03Feb01=======================================================================
636 1. Changes and additions to the manual and added a help file for sh/log (g0vgs)
637 13Jan01=======================================================================
638 1. Documentation alterations to match new commands etc (g0vgs)
639 08Jan01=======================================================================
640 1. Changed the way that badnodes, baddx etc work. There is a new general way
641 implemented (dunno why I didn't do this before - hey ho...) as a consequence
642 there are set/unset/show baddx (for bad dx callsigns) badnode (for dx from
643 bad nodes) badspotter (for bad spotters of dx eg VE2STN). Expect more of
644 this sort of thing...
645 2. Added one to the copyright dates...
646 06Jan01=======================================================================
647 1. Fix set/obscount so it actually works.
648 2. Allow different number formats for set/pingint eg: 5m for 5 minutes and
649 120s for 120 seconds (and 1h for 1 hour).
650 03Jan01=======================================================================
651 1. Added a txt directory for txt versions of manuals (g0vgs)
652 2. Various documentation changes
653 02Jan01=======================================================================
654 1. added a help file for forward/latlong and updated the admin manual to
656 2. Add spot2csv.pl to convert spot files into tab delimited .csv format.
657 3. Add show/route to see which interface a station is connected on.
658 31Dec00=======================================================================
659 1. add lat/long info to show/prefix
660 30Dec00=======================================================================
661 1. added latest version of the admin manual from Ian G0VGS.
662 23Dec00=======================================================================
663 1. don't route anything back down the channel it came from.
664 2. and, in the process, fix some silly errors in routing converted rcmd PCs
665 3. changed all occurrances of 'freq' in filter help to 'on' and corrected
666 some errors (eg freq/ssb).
667 4. added latest admin manual.
668 18Dec00=======================================================================
669 1. fix double printing of DB results
670 2. add new style filtering for WWV and WCY to complete the set
671 3. got the field nos right (hopefully) on Announces for filters
672 05Dec00=======================================================================
673 1. fix frequency hinting routine so it correctly handles things like 'on 23cm'
674 where digits are the 'wrong' way round.
675 2. made default max days to search for spots 3 months.
676 3. added hex decodes for those pesky 'national' characters that aren't really
677 in grepdbg and watchdbg.
678 4. decide that we are using Latin-1 and therefore characters 0x80-0x9f are
680 5. fix the announces so that they are all UPPER CASE for poor old DXTelnet.
681 03Dec00=======================================================================
682 1. change grepdbg and watchdbg so that you can see a number of lines before
683 the condx that you are looking for so:-
686 will show both the LOOP line and the preceeding 2 lines.
687 2. add PCPROT to all error condx lines in DXProt.pm so that you can watch
688 for them more easily.
689 30Nov00=======================================================================
690 1. remove %nn strings from dups of announces and spots
691 2. remove check for ssids on PC41s
692 29Nov00=======================================================================
693 1. make some small changes to DXmsg to try to track delete problems?
694 2. fix ann/full so it doesn't dup
695 27Nov00=======================================================================
696 1. alter sh/wcy output slightly
697 26Nov00=======================================================================
698 1. made it possible for sysop calls to be used on other nodes and still have
699 anti loop checking on PC16/17.
700 25Nov00=======================================================================
701 1. -l <nnn> now works on C client
702 2. -e toggles echo cancelling (normally on) on C client
703 20Nov00=======================================================================
704 1. added even more checking to PC16,17 and 39
705 19Nov00=======================================================================
706 1. improve reaping code a bit more.
707 2. put some extra checking in the PC16,17,19,21 code.
708 3. fix problem with the aliased user disappearing and loads of 'unitialised'
710 16Nov00=======================================================================
711 1. Alter the process reaping code in cluster.pl to use waitpid
712 12Nov00=======================================================================
713 1. Fix lack 't' action in Filter.pm
714 08Nov00=======================================================================
715 1. fix cosmetic errors in for/oper for 'users'.
716 07Nov00=======================================================================
717 1. removed sh/call because the owner isn't happy about us using it.
718 2. change sh/qrz to the new interface. MUCH QUICKER! you will need a user id
719 and password from qrz.com to use it and you will have to copy the
720 /spider/perl/Internet.pm to /spider/local and alter it accordingly. Do
721 remember to set $allow=1 as well! The new interface comes courtesy of Fred
722 LLoyd, the proprietor of http://www.qrz.com
723 06Nov00=======================================================================
724 1. Added sh/qrz to the list of callbook services
725 05Nov00=======================================================================
726 1. 75% speed up on sh/dx !, lower memory usage as well!
727 2. Fixed problem with clear/spot 0 (how did this one last so long!!!)
728 3. add 'on' in accept/reject spots as synonym for 'freq'
729 4. add the same speed up to general log printing
731 04Nov00=======================================================================
732 1. fix sh/filter so ity now works for any callsign (and not just connected
734 2. Have only one is_callsign and not an iscallsign as well.
735 3. Add set/hops and show/hops commands.
736 4. Add unset/badnode command and put some help in for these commands
737 03Nov00=======================================================================
738 1. allow - in filter strings
739 2. store only the filter expression NOTE BENE: you will need to clear all
740 your existing filters and re-enter them!!!!!!
741 3. Added announce filtering
742 4. Fixed problem with announce filtering on output to the node
743 02Nov00=======================================================================
744 1. updated filtering logic. You will need to RECREATE your filters (clear/spot
745 all, then start again) for testing.
746 2. allow PC73 for DXNet
747 3. added some help text for filtering and filtering spots in particular.
748 01Nov00=======================================================================
749 1. put PC11 field 2 check back to m for pc text.
750 2. improve 'simple' callsign checking
751 3. Added the first cut of the new user/sysop filtering code. This cut works
752 for spots and the syntax is:-
754 accept/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
755 reject/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
758 freq 0/30000 | hf | hf/cw | 6m,4m,2m
769 channel GB7DJK,GB7BAA
771 You can simply string these together on one line one after the other and
772 there is an implied 'and', you can also string together with 'or' 'not' (or
773 '!') and '(' and ')' - in otherwords an arbitrary expression.
775 You can see what you have done with:
779 You can clear your work with:
781 clear/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>|all]
783 Have fun and someone please write the documentation.
784 4. Added show/msg_status.pl sysop command (shows some info on what is busy in
786 31Oct00=======================================================================
787 1. add 0x8e to the list of characters we clobber (make xterm go into graphics
789 30Oct00=======================================================================
790 1. put in new Filter::it code and tested it. Now all we have to do is write
791 the user access routines (oh and the help files!).
792 29Oct00=======================================================================
793 1. put in echo cancelling measures into the clients. This doesn't mean you
794 shouldn't take steps to prevent echoing on node links, but it may help where
795 (whatever you do) it still bloody echos! This is experimental.
796 2. store dxchan and mynode as callsigns (and not references) in the routing
797 tables and do some checking in accessors to see if we can capture some errors.
798 3. tart up the stat/chan etc display to give more useful debugging info
799 28Oct00=======================================================================
800 1. updated show/sun and show/moon from stuff sent by Steve Franke K9AN
801 2. added show/call which queries jeifer.pineknot.com for any call in the
802 world (as opposed to UALR which only does US calls). Inspired by a bit of
803 perl sent to me by Steve Franke (again!) and also Angel EA7WA who gave me the
805 3. fixed clients so that they accept -0 as a valid SSID and then strip it off
806 as though they had come in without (why has this taken so long to appear? How
807 long have we been running this code ??????).
808 27Oct00=======================================================================
809 1. alter the code in clean_old of DXMsg system to see if we get some different
810 behaviour with random crashing
811 26Oct00=======================================================================
812 1. if there is a 'connected' file in /spider/data then the client will send
813 it out to the user after connection.
814 25Oct00=======================================================================
815 1. fix catchup and uncatchup commands so that they accept ranges
816 24Oct00=======================================================================
817 1. added cty.dat from http://www.k1ea.com/cty/index.htm to the prefix_data.pl
818 data file and modified create_prefix.pl accordingly.
819 2. the 'no text line' messages should now propagate correctly
820 3. added the dxcc, itu and cq zone numbers for announcer and origining node
821 on announce filters - see the /spider/filter/ann/*.issue files for more info.
822 4. you can now specify a 'user_default.pl', 'node_default.pl' and
823 'in_node_default.pl' in each of the filter directories
824 23Oct00=======================================================================
825 1. Added K5K as Kingman Reef
827 17Oct00=======================================================================
828 1. force frames to go down the local interface when doing a route. This is
829 particularly important for pings!
830 16Oct00=======================================================================
831 1. add a ':' after 'G7BRN de G1TLH' in a talk message.
832 2. added /J to the list of things to ignore (as in G1TLH/J) in prefix
833 processing (ie /J mean Jota not /JA [Japan]).
834 3. change all INCOMING 00-08 0A-1F and 9B characters that make it past the
835 intermediate client->server protocol to '.'.
836 04Sep00=======================================================================
837 1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
839 02Sep00=======================================================================
840 1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
842 2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
843 /spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
844 ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
845 sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
846 are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
847 ...k, ...ker, ...king).
848 3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
849 01Sep00=======================================================================
850 1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
851 28Aug00=======================================================================
852 1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
853 2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
854 trying to disconnect themselves).
855 3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
856 (and transparently for spider nodes).
857 26Aug00=======================================================================
858 1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
859 2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
860 3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
861 4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
863 25Aug00=======================================================================
864 1. moan about and then delete empty message files
865 24Aug00=======================================================================
866 1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
867 automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
868 23Aug00=======================================================================
869 1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
870 announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
871 2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
872 20Aug00=======================================================================
873 1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
874 2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
875 and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
876 3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
877 19Aug00=======================================================================
878 1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
879 2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
880 18Aug00=======================================================================
881 1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
882 2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
883 not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
884 3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
885 15Aug00=======================================================================
886 1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
887 14Aug00=======================================================================
888 1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
889 2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
890 13Aug00=======================================================================
891 1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
893 05Aug00=======================================================================
894 1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
895 03Aug00=======================================================================
896 1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
898 2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
899 (as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
900 02Aug00=======================================================================
901 1. put back hex check exception for PC29
902 01Aug00=======================================================================
903 1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
904 generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
905 execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
906 2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
907 31Jul00=======================================================================
908 1. try to fix paging problem.
909 2. added help for spoof and set/forward
910 3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
911 4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
912 30Jul00=======================================================================
913 1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
914 2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
915 3. bomb proofed the type command.
916 4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
917 5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
918 6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
919 7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
920 8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
921 9. Increase default hop counts all round.
922 10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
923 11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
924 29Jul00=======================================================================
925 1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
926 and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
928 2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
929 sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
931 3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
932 28Jul00=======================================================================
933 1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
934 date/time translation to leave just the time.
935 27Jul00=======================================================================
936 1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
937 2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
938 3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
939 4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
940 5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
942 6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
943 7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
944 8. Added sgml files into the source tree
945 9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
946 26Jul00=======================================================================
947 1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
948 2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
950 3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
951 4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
952 duplicates and possibly corruptions.
953 5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
954 export the user data in ascii from cron.
955 6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
956 7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
957 8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
958 9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
960 10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
961 11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
962 update the current user file.
963 12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
964 cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
965 a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
966 /spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
967 13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
968 14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
969 15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
970 corruptions and duplicates.
971 25Jul00=======================================================================
972 1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
973 2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
975 3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
976 20Jul00=======================================================================
977 1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
978 2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
979 3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
980 4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
981 5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
982 blanks at the end of lines.
983 25Jun00=======================================================================
984 1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
985 channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
986 2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
987 Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
988 19Jun00=======================================================================
989 1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
990 2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
991 via telnet in client.pl
992 18Jun00=======================================================================
993 1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
994 actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
995 Client.pl has got to go....
996 2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
997 17Jun00=======================================================================
998 1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
999 2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
1000 3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
1001 information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
1002 4. Added node type to links and who
1003 5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
1004 rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
1005 14Jun00=======================================================================
1006 1. fixed sh/node crash
1007 2. fixed RTT in who.pl
1008 13Jun00=======================================================================
1009 1. fixed looping bug in C client on ending.
1010 12Jun00=======================================================================
1011 1. Added RCMD for clx
1012 2. Added WCY processing
1013 3. Added new node types (clx, spider, dxnet, arcluster)
1014 4. Store echo settings
1015 5. Store pagelth settings
1016 6. sort out source of DXVars for callbot.pl
1019 11Jun00=======================================================================
1020 1. removed extraneous DXDebug from DXUtil
1021 2. added help for set/echo
1022 3. Centralised all spot, wwv and ann dup handling into respective packages.
1023 4. Created new AnnTalk package (for above and OOing announce and talk
1025 5. Fixed problem with outputting lines with | in them to console.pl.
1026 10Jun00=======================================================================
1027 1. got rid of some more nasty bugs in sh/qra.
1028 2. fixed 9A3xx to always be Croatia (and not Haiti!).
1029 09Jun00=======================================================================
1030 1. change some print commands in DXMsg to dbg('err'...
1031 2. overloaded confess, croak et al into DXDebug and removed Carp from
1032 everywhere and checked that the necessary debugging really does go into
1033 the debug files now.
1034 3. changed print statements in cluster.pl to dbg('err',... so they go into
1035 the debug files as well.
1036 4. Altered the logic around duplicate spots, reduced the length of comment
1037 checked to 20 characters (this should solve some problems including those
1038 people sucking ar-cluster spots with prefixes in the extreme rh end).
1039 08Jun00=======================================================================
1040 1. fixed problem with binary characters from cluster->client
1041 2. added set/echo and unset/echo commands
1042 3. echo login characters on login: prompt for C client
1043 4. Send \r\n on telnet connections for C Client
1044 5. Make echoing the default option (for M$ telnet clients :-()
1045 11May00=======================================================================
1046 1. fixed looping in Msg.pm (at last)
1047 10May00=======================================================================
1048 1. wrote a cross between 'tail -f' and grepdbg so that you can watch the
1049 debug files for particular strings and only have them print out.
1050 05May00=======================================================================
1051 1. rewrote parts of Msg.pm and client.c so that the messages no longer use
1052 a length word at the front of each one. They are simply strings of characters
1053 separated by a \n. No binary characters are allowed (they are encoded as %nn)
1054 a la HTTP. This hopefully cures Arnold's problem and also make it more
1055 secure anyway. It also paves the way for the ax25/ip multicast client.
1056 30Apr00=======================================================================
1057 1. put some extra checks and balances in to message send routine in Msg.pm to
1058 see if I can prevent the error seen by Arnold (which I think is only likely to
1059 appear in heavily loaded sites).
1060 25Apr00=======================================================================
1061 1. Changed reply so that you can reply to more than one address privately
1062 31Mar00=======================================================================
1063 1. fixed nnn-mmm in kill (erase/delete) msgs so that mmm is also deleted and
1064 not just nnn -> mmm-1.
1065 2. Added an autosplit to message importing so that messages are split
1066 automagically into bits if the filename used in the import directory starts
1067 with "split". This will add a [1/5] type string on the the end of the subject.
1068 3. dedupe more aggressively on the text of Spots so that only the 1st 27 chars
1069 of text are considered (as opposed to the whole lot).
1070 30Mar00=======================================================================
1071 1. altered client.pl connect code so that it doesn't falsely recognise
1072 /spider/src/client as a 'client' instruction.
1073 28Mar00=======================================================================
1074 1. Added buffering to client
1075 2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
1076 27Mar00=======================================================================
1077 1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
1078 2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
1079 3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
1080 4. A more robust version of the C client.
1081 5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
1082 6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
1083 7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
1084 be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
1085 26Mar00=======================================================================
1086 1. first cut of C client
1087 18Mar00=======================================================================
1088 1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
1089 08Mar00=======================================================================
1090 1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
1091 2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
1093 10Jan00=======================================================================
1094 1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
1095 08Jan00=======================================================================
1096 1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
1097 2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
1098 into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
1099 it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
1100 allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
1101 03Jan00=======================================================================
1102 1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
1103 2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
1104 of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
1106 3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
1107 01Jan00=======================================================================
1108 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
1110 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
1111 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
1112 "external" interface routines.
1113 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
1114 11Dec99=======================================================================
1115 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
1116 10Dec99=======================================================================
1117 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
1118 02Dec99=======================================================================
1119 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
1120 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
1121 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
1123 01Dec99=======================================================================
1124 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
1125 2. added www.qrz.com
1126 3. added www.buck.com
1127 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
1128 28Nov99=======================================================================
1129 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
1130 DXCluster->get_exact.
1131 24Nov99=======================================================================
1132 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
1133 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
1134 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
1135 for a field or test on a field and set another.
1136 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
1137 unread private mail does.
1138 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
1139 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
1140 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
1141 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
1142 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
1143 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
1144 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
1145 6. Added show/time command
1146 21Nov99=======================================================================
1147 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
1148 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
1149 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
1150 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
1152 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
1153 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
1154 20Nov99=======================================================================
1155 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
1156 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
1157 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
1158 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
1159 means disable pinging (not recommended).
1160 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
1161 level or passwd in stat/user.
1162 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
1163 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
1164 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
1166 19Nov99=======================================================================
1167 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
1168 2. Added rtt to who.
1169 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
1170 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
1171 18Nov99=======================================================================
1172 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
1173 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
1174 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
1175 after 12 minutes of nil response.
1176 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
1177 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
1178 17Nov99=======================================================================
1179 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
1180 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
1181 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
1182 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
1183 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
1184 14Nov99=======================================================================
1185 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
1186 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
1187 12Nov99=======================================================================
1188 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
1189 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
1190 08Nov99=======================================================================
1191 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
1192 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
1193 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
1194 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
1195 07Nov99=======================================================================
1196 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
1197 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
1199 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
1200 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
1201 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
1202 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
1203 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
1204 enquire on a local or remote database.
1205 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
1206 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
1207 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
1208 04Nov99=======================================================================
1209 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
1210 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
1211 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
1212 03Nov99=======================================================================
1213 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
1214 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
1215 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
1216 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
1217 31Oct99=======================================================================
1218 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
1220 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
1221 input spot filtering works.
1222 24Oct99=======================================================================
1223 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
1224 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
1225 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
1227 22Oct99=======================================================================
1228 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
1229 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
1230 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
1231 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
1232 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
1233 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
1234 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
1235 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
1236 to them as you get requests.
1237 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
1238 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
1239 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
1240 21Oct99=======================================================================
1241 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
1243 2. implemented sh/muf command.
1244 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
1245 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
1246 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
1247 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
1248 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
1249 20Oct99=======================================================================
1250 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
1251 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
1253 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
1254 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
1255 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
1256 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
1257 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
1258 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
1259 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
1260 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
1261 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
1262 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
1263 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
1264 18Oct99=======================================================================
1265 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
1266 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
1267 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
1268 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
1269 (request from G8TIC)
1270 21Sep99=======================================================================
1271 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
1272 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
1273 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
1274 30Aug99=======================================================================
1275 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
1276 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
1277 29Aug99=======================================================================
1278 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
1279 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
1280 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
1281 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
1282 if they have been sent as bulls.
1283 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
1284 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
1285 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
1286 25Aug99=======================================================================
1287 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
1288 24Aug99=======================================================================
1289 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
1290 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
1291 17Aug99=======================================================================
1292 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
1293 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
1295 19Jul99=======================================================================
1296 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
1297 and will look for the appropriate strings.
1298 17Jul99=======================================================================
1299 1. Started database integration.
1300 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
1301 16Jul99=======================================================================
1302 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
1303 embedded %XX characters).
1304 15Jul99=======================================================================
1305 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
1306 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
1308 10Jul99=======================================================================
1309 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
1310 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
1311 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
1312 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
1313 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
1314 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
1315 05Jul99=======================================================================
1316 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
1317 the msg and cluster node tables.
1318 04Jul99=======================================================================
1319 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
1320 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
1321 01Jul99=======================================================================
1322 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
1323 29Jun99=======================================================================
1324 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
1325 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
1326 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
1327 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
1328 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
1329 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
1331 28Jun99=======================================================================
1332 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
1333 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
1334 3. added colours to things.
1335 27Jun99=======================================================================
1336 1. added WWV filtering
1337 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
1338 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
1339 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
1341 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
1342 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
1343 messages queued up that are probably old.
1344 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
1345 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
1346 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
1347 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
1349 21Jun99=======================================================================
1350 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
1352 20Jun99=======================================================================
1353 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
1354 18Jun99=======================================================================
1355 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
1356 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
1357 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
1358 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
1359 that channel before re-initialising.
1360 4. add init command.
1361 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
1362 15Jun99=======================================================================
1363 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
1364 and dates of incidents).
1365 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
1367 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
1368 14Jun99=======================================================================
1369 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
1370 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
1371 08Jun99=======================================================================
1372 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
1373 03Jun99=======================================================================
1374 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
1376 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
1377 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
1378 dropped from those broadcasts.
1379 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
1380 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
1381 01Jun99=======================================================================
1382 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
1383 31May99=======================================================================
1384 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
1385 the channels that they are supposed to.
1386 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
1387 connecting node's privilege level).
1388 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
1389 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
1390 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
1391 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
1392 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
1393 25May99=======================================================================
1394 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
1395 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
1396 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
1397 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
1398 4. Added who command
1399 23May99=======================================================================
1400 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
1402 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
1403 23May99=======================================================================
1404 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
1405 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
1406 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
1407 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
1408 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
1409 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
1410 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
1411 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
1412 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
1413 and from callsigns etc.
1414 22May99=======================================================================
1415 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
1416 2. added show/files and type commands
1417 21May99=======================================================================
1418 1. made set/nodx work again.
1419 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
1420 18May99=======================================================================
1421 1. Added announce dup checking.
1422 2. Added system announce filtering.
1423 08May99=======================================================================
1424 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
1425 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
1426 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
1427 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
1428 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
1429 or user lines as input.
1430 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
1431 05May99=======================================================================
1432 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
1433 02May99=======================================================================
1434 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
1435 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
1436 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
1437 30Apr99=======================================================================
1438 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
1440 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
1441 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
1442 26Apr99=======================================================================
1443 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
1444 very little checking.
1445 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
1447 25Apr99=======================================================================
1448 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
1449 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
1450 20Apr99=======================================================================
1451 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
1452 corruptions/missing users less likely.
1453 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
1454 3. check dates much more rigourously.
1455 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
1456 15Mar99=======================================================================
1457 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
1458 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
1459 3. Added sysop command
1460 02Mar99========================================================================
1461 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
1462 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
1463 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
1464 25Feb99========================================================================
1465 1. added NL language stuff.
1466 2. added set/language
1467 21Feb99========================================================================
1468 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
1469 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
1470 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
1471 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
1472 17Feb99========================================================================
1473 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
1474 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
1475 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
1476 15Feb99========================================================================
1477 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
1478 14Feb99========================================================================
1479 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
1480 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
1481 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
1482 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
1483 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
1484 11Feb99========================================================================
1485 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
1486 local configs to new connections.
1487 08Feb99========================================================================
1488 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
1489 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
1490 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
1491 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
1492 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
1493 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
1494 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
1495 30Jan99========================================================================
1496 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
1498 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
1499 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
1500 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
1502 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
1503 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
1504 18Jan99========================================================================
1505 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
1506 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
1508 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
1509 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
1510 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
1511 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
1513 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
1514 the -M semantics are rather strange!
1515 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
1516 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
1518 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
1519 the call is connected to the node.
1520 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
1521 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
1522 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
1524 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
1525 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
1526 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
1528 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
1529 17Jan99========================================================================
1530 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
1531 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
1532 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
1534 3. Started filter and Database code.
1535 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
1537 07Jan99========================================================================
1538 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
1539 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
1540 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
1542 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
1543 06Jan99========================================================================
1544 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
1545 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
1546 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
1547 them)(thank you G0RDI).
1548 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
1549 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
1550 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
1551 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
1552 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
1553 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
1554 03Jan99========================================================================
1555 1. Upped the version no !!!!
1556 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
1557 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
1558 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
1559 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
1560 28Dec98========================================================================
1561 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
1562 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
1563 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
1564 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
1565 27Dec98========================================================================
1566 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
1567 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
1568 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
1570 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
1571 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
1572 23Dec98========================================================================
1573 1. Reindented various things
1574 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
1575 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
1576 22Dec98========================================================================
1577 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
1578 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
1579 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
1581 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
1582 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
1583 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
1585 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
1586 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
1587 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
1588 problems with the leading '0'!
1589 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
1590 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
1591 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
1592 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
1593 I have added a merge command.
1594 21Dec98========================================================================
1595 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
1596 2. Added more docs for client program.
1597 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
1598 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
1599 4. issue release 1.13
1600 20Dec98========================================================================
1601 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
1602 cluster and running a few commands).
1603 2. Added per node hop control.
1604 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
1605 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
1606 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
1607 19Dec98========================================================================
1608 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
1609 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
1610 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
1611 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
1612 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
1613 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
1614 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
1615 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
1616 14Dec98========================================================================
1617 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
1618 a real telnetd on port 23.
1619 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
1620 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
1621 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
1622 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
1623 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
1624 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
1625 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
1626 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
1627 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
1628 different scripts for the same callsign.
1629 8. Added sh/wwv command
1630 13Dec98========================================================================
1631 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
1632 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
1633 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
1635 4. fixed telnet connections
1636 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
1637 6. Added some more help
1639 12Dec98========================================================================
1640 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
1641 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
1642 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
1643 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
1644 disjoint cluster networks)
1645 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
1646 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
1647 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
1649 07Dec98========================================================================
1650 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
1652 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
1653 should stop clients hanging on exit.
1654 3. Added Alias support for help
1655 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
1656 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
1658 06Dec98========================================================================
1659 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
1660 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
1661 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
1662 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
1663 5. Started adding more help
1664 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
1665 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
1666 05Dec98========================================================================
1667 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
1668 04Dec98========================================================================
1669 1. Started Changes file
1670 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
1671 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
1672 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
1673 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
1674 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
1675 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
1676 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl