1 24Jan23=======================================================================
2 1. Optimise the PC11->PC61 promotion code, improve readability of set/deb pc11
3 20Jan23=======================================================================
4 1. Add the variable @main::localhost_names to allow other IP addresses to
5 be treated in the same way as localhost in item 1 on 19Jan23 below. NOTE
6 you must include ALL the normal localhost names + any other interface
7 names that you might want to include:
9 set/var @main::localhost_names qw(127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.1.30)
11 using the qw() construction is easier than:
13 set/var @main::localhost_names ('127.0.0.1', '::1', '192.168.1.30')
15 but either will work. You can define as many IP addresses as you like and
16 they can be IPV4 or 6.
18 You do NOT need to fiddle with this unless you specifically have more
19 than just the normal definitions of localhost. So for 'normal' nodes with
20 one external interface, you DO NOT NEED TO DO ANY OF THIS.
21 2. Added CTY-3304 prefix data
22 3. Fix Bad IP address system so that one can carry on as normal without
23 Net::CIDR::Lite (or libnet-cidr-lite-perl on debian based systems)
24 19Jan23=======================================================================
25 1. Introduce aliasing for localhost in DX Spots and outgoing PC92 A records
26 on login. There are two variables which can be set with the alias to use:
27 $main::localhost_alias_ipv4
28 $main::localhost_alias_ipv6
29 These can be set in the /spider/scripts/startup, but this is only
30 necessary if the node has more than one interface, or virtual hosts. If
31 there is ONLY ONE ipv4 and/or ipv6 IP address on the node machine then
32 these variables will be automatically populated on first use. But the SAFE
33 thing to do is to set them in the startup file.
35 THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL...
36 18Jan23=======================================================================
37 1. Make sure than *every* channel has an IP address. Thank you (I think) Kin
38 for pointing out that PC92 A records were not going out with IP addresses.
39 I'm guessing that other things (like spots) had a similar problem.
40 15Jan23=======================================================================
41 1. Fix strange errors for carp on missing route_*_cache files on startup.
42 14Jan23=======================================================================
43 1. Fixed route PC11 promotions so that a new PC61 is actually generated and
44 also sent instead of the original PC11 (to PC61 capable nodes).
45 13Jan23=======================================================================
46 1. Periodically store Routing tables and, if they are young enough (def: 3hrs)
47 autotically restore them on restart of the node. This will short circuit
48 the need to rebuild the routing tables from scratch on every restart -
49 which is normally for something like software update.
50 2. Fix pc11 debugging stats with the correct figures. Sigh... Also move some
51 of the totals to a different place.
52 3. Add show/spotstats command which gives the current spot statistics shown
53 during pc11 debugging (which means you don't need to set/deb pc11 unless
54 you really want that extra noise).
55 12Jan23=======================================================================
56 1. Regularise 'set/debug pc11' output to track all the routes through PC11 and
57 PC61 processing and statistics.
58 11Jan23=======================================================================
59 1. Improve (?) the PC11 -> PC61 upgrading process that delays incoming PC11s
60 for a very short time in the hope that a PC61 will come in to be used
61 instead. It will also upgrade a PC11 if we have an uptodate IP address
62 that has come in from the routing system PC92s. do a 'set/debug pc11' to
64 2. I have chosen a definitive list of TOR exits and relays which can be
65 downloaded from http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit,
66 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay and finally, for those IP
67 addresses that are deemed to be 'bad':
68 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global. I have added the following
69 lines to my /spider/local_cmd/crontab:
71 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
72 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay')
73 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global')
74 25 * * * * run_cmd('load/badip')
76 The tor files are downloaded from https://lists.fissionrelays.net/tor/ at
77 15 minutes past every hour, please would you use some other minute than
78 23 or 24 to get your own local copies.
80 A 'set/debug badip' will show you what is being blocked.
81 3. Fix set/badip so that it appends new IP addresses correctly.
82 10Jan23=======================================================================
83 1. Add baddx on incoming callsign in RBN.
84 2. Search for all /spider/local_data/badip.* files to allow more control on
85 which IP addresses are detected. e.g. badip.torexit, badip.torrelay as well
86 as baddx.local. The suffixes, apart from .local (created by set/badip) are
87 completely arbitrary. You can use whichever suffix name you like. This is
88 a more useful arrangement for the ever increasing sources of "bad ip
89 addresses" that we need to deter.
91 NOTE: all badip.<suffix> are read only EXCEPT badip.local (which can be
92 altered in real time by the sysop using set/badip <ip address> ...).
93 If one uses periodic crontab jobs to update any other badip.<suffix>
94 files from web resources then don't forget to 'load/badip' afterwards.
95 3. Add a /spider/data/baddx.issue file which can be copied to (or used as a
96 basis to create) /spider/local_data/baddx
97 09Jan23=======================================================================
98 1. Finish implemention of DXCIDR ip address filtering. This works on both
99 logins (treated the same as locked out - i.e. just disconnected) and also
100 with PC61s where these sentences are just dropped. Also attempt to prevent
101 any *following* PC11s with the same data getting through.
103 YOU WILL NEED either 'cpanm Net::CIDR::Lite' or debian/ubuntu based distros
104 'apt install libnet-cidr-lite-perl'. RedHat based systems will have similar
107 2. Recognise PC18s coming from CC Clusters more nicely.
108 04Jan23=======================================================================
109 1. Fillout DXCIDR, attach checks in PC61 and logins. Login that fail will
110 simply disconnect, like locked out callsigns
111 2. Fix qrz.com URL in stock Internet.pm.
112 3. Fix DXHash issues (baddx, badnode, badspotter etc)
113 30Dec22=======================================================================
114 1. Add more BadWords (regex) checks.
115 01Dec22=======================================================================
116 1. Re-add some debugging to see which incoming PC protcol sentences are
117 being dumped because of any bad content (words or calls) if debugging
118 option 'nologchan' is set.
119 2. All debugging for badwords has the word 'badword' in it. So that one can
120 do a 'grepdbg -1 badword' and one should see who said it and all of what
121 they said. Watchdbg will also work with this.
122 3. My latest recommended additions to the badword list includes:
123 RU STOP SPOT DISGRACE CRM CRIM CRUD SUBHUMAN FASCIST DEGENERATE CATTLE CNT
124 23Nov22=======================================================================
125 1. The BadWord system has been rewritten. This change is pretty radical and
126 needs to be used with care as a word that is entered will be reduced to the
127 minimum sized string needed to match that word.
129 This is effective a sysop command changeable version of the file badw_regex
130 but in a much more sysop friendly form. The (un)set/badword <word>...
131 commands now update the /spider/local_data/badword.new file in real time
132 without having to mess about with editing files and running load/badword.
133 load/badword still works, but you should now never need it.
134 19Nov22=======================================================================
135 1. "Fix" Badword detection in spots and announces etc.
136 NOTE: setting $DXCommandmode::maxbadcount to 0 (default 3) will disable
137 autologout on swearing. But any (detected) swearing will be logged.
138 User generated swearing will not be propagated, not will incoming
140 2. Fix is_ipaddr so that it accepts more (most?) valid IPV6 addresses that
141 actual real IP addresses that might appear as endpoints.
142 3. Add CTY-3237 prefixes.
143 06Jun22=======================================================================
144 1. Fix show/wcy so that it works even if no wcy broadcasts have been received
146 01Jun22=======================================================================
147 1. Fix show/(v)hfstats commands.
148 2. Add CTY-3221 Prefixes.
149 07Feb22=======================================================================
150 1. (re)add set/seeme and show/seeme commands which don't appear to have
152 03Feb22=======================================================================
153 1. Improve/add the help text for grepdbg and watchdbg.
154 31Jan22=======================================================================
155 1. Set $RBN::respottime to 3 minutes. NOTE change of name from
157 2. Allow callsigns connected to a node with an SSID to get SEEME RBN spots
158 for their base callsigns. So G1TLH-2, G1TLH-7 will get **SEEME** RBN spots
159 if G1TLH is spotted on the RBN system - even is are both connected to the
160 node and G1TLH is not. Each call is unique and each callsign (variation)
161 must have done a set/seeme + set/skimmer. .
162 29Jan22=======================================================================
163 1. Implement RBN set/seeme which displays any passing RBN spots for your
164 callsign in "raw" format.
165 28Jan22=======================================================================
166 1. Add Capabilities Line to logged in users.
167 2. Make absolutely sure that all DB_Files are closed correctly.
168 3. Introduce (un)set/debug rbnchan to control the visualisation of raw RBN
170 25Jan22=======================================================================
171 1. Fixed grepdbg so that it does what -help says it does.
172 24Jan22=======================================================================
173 1. Change Local::pcprot() calling conventions to be the same as the rest of
174 software (see any 'sub handle_nn' function in DXProtHandle.pm.
175 2. Corrected some interpolations in Messages.
176 3. Tried to make users file deletes and updates more stable.
177 22Jan22=======================================================================
178 1. Refine spot display to retain the ':' and also reduce the likelyhood of
179 of misalignment by using the available space in the 39 characters more
180 intelligently. This is WIP.
181 21Jan22=======================================================================
182 1. Fix version tracking in PC92
183 2. Bring the major parts of master and mojo together to make maintenance a
184 bit less challenging. This does add anything extra to mojo, but it's still
186 18Jan22=======================================================================
187 1. fix (un)set/registered.
188 09Jan22=======================================================================
189 1. Add the New Year CTY-3201 prefix data.
190 08Jan22=======================================================================
191 1. I don't think there are any more warnings...
192 06Jan22=======================================================================
193 1. Fix the last of any frequent warnings caused by yesterday's modifications.
194 05Jan22=======================================================================
195 1. Mark nodes that send PC92 K records as spider. These will include VE7CC
196 nodes. NOTE: there appear to be user records marked as user or other sorts
197 of node, which (now) are actually spider (compatible) nodes and will be
199 2. Adjust nodes currently marked as spider nodes, but are sending versions
200 not in the spider range of versions on PC92 A records as AK1A.
201 3. Try to undo some damage where users have been autocreated with similar
202 attributes as nodes (locked out with privilege set to 1). This will
203 slowly fix this problem over time, but see item 4 for a 'big bang'
205 4. It has come to my attention that there are a large number of users (of
206 all sorts) that have incompatible SSIDs. See 03Jan22/4 for details.
208 These are now being scrubbed out of the users file and also will present
209 as their normalised selves. If a -0* SSID is encountered then, if the
210 normalised version of that call is not present, it will be renamed to
211 that normalised call. If the normalised version of that user record is
212 already present, the un-normalised user record (-0*) will be removed.
213 5. Make export_users do a batch clean (as in 3. above) and also get rid of
214 (default) 12+ year old unaccessed user records and (default) 2+ year old
215 "empty" records (with no qra/latlog/qth or handle).
217 NOTE: if you do an manual export_users (as opposed to the automatic one
218 done once a week), do not be alarmed by the number of old (i.e. more than
219 12 years old) callsigns that it will get rid of. In my case it was about
220 ~2/5th of the users file. Still left me with over 100,000 "active" users.
222 In you are a bit twitchy about this, the code will copy the current
223 user_json and user_json.ooooo to user_json.keep and user_json.backstop
224 respectively. These files will never be overwritten unless you remove one
225 or both, when they will be regenerated on the next export_user.
226 04Jan22=======================================================================
227 1. Fix issue in the RBN (and probably other places) with callsigns that
228 contain trailing / in callsigns like: OH0K/6, K2PO/7 etc.
229 2. Regard strange callsigns like DR4W-HB (seen in skimmer spots) as invalid.
230 This *should be* something like HB9/DR4W or (spit) DR4W/HB9.
231 3. Fix the (probably) spurious locking out of users that are unknown to this
232 node, that come in from other nodes. These create new user records which
233 where then automatically locked.
234 03Jan22=======================================================================
235 1. Allow overrides (on modern versions of perl) with things in DXVars.pm, such
236 $clusterport. This is really only of use for people trying to run more than
237 one instance of DXSpider on the same machine.
238 2. Fix who command to make RBN connections as RBN and not USER.
239 3. Prevent other nodes claiming that $myalias or $mycall is a different type
240 (user or node) from changing our route table and thence the user type.
241 4. Normalise callsigns of incoming connections to G1TST if G1TST-0 or G1TST-00
242 amd G1TST-2 if G1TST-02. There are 800+ instances of callsigns with extra
243 0 characters in the SSID in my users file. Allow SSIDs up to 99.
244 02Jan22=======================================================================
245 1. Fix dx bug introduced to handle dx by ip <ipaddr> for webclusters.
246 2. Remove _add_thingy dbg message from general view.
247 3. Increase sh/ann cache to 130 to cope with some client programs' profligate
248 need to fill their users' screens with needless erm... data.
249 01Jan22=======================================================================
250 1. Fixed missing ';' in spoof
251 30Dec21=======================================================================
252 1. Try to fix (nuke) tabs in comment field.
253 28Dec21=======================================================================
254 1. Fix issues with wwv & wcy updates into the cache.
255 2. Add a simple sh/announce cache to stop spawning when used (especially) in
257 27Dec21=======================================================================
258 1. Fix "kwalitee control" issue in /spider/cmd/dx.pl.
259 2. Make sh/wcy and sh/wwv cacheble for simple queries.
260 3. Fix set/nodxxxxxx etc.
261 22Dec21=======================================================================
262 1. Add the possibility to do "sender verify" that spots (and later on, other
263 things like announce etc) are coming from spotters that exist on the node
264 that the PC11/61 says it does. At the moment, this is advisory as many
265 users seem to be on web clusters and many of them do not send PC61 and also
266 don't update the node's routing tables that normal node usage would do.
267 2. Prioritise PC61 spots over PC11 spots wherever possible. Also promote PC11
268 spots to PC61 where the spotter's IP is known.
269 3. Add a shell script "perlbrew-dxspider" that can be used for starting the
270 node when using perlbrew (i.e. more modern perls) on older distros such
272 4. Allow to "dx by <spotter> ip <ip address> <qrg> <spot call> <comment>.
273 This is added as a convenience measure for webcluster authors while waiting
274 for the internal websocket interface (or because they cannot use that).
275 This can only be used by suitably privileged users.
276 This likely to be a temporary measure and will be immediately withdrawn if
277 there is any sign of abuse.
278 11Dec21=======================================================================
279 1. Removed dependency on perl Git package.
280 2. Force code to change directory to $DXSPIDER_ROOT || '/spider'. Also force
281 git -C $root describe.
282 3. Change git commands AGAIN to work on old perls (which mojo won't work on,
283 but it makes my life easier).
284 4. Change version strings to include the perl version in use.
285 10Dec21=======================================================================
286 1. Fix the output of set/dxgrid, set/usstate and set/dxcq or set/dxitu to how
287 it was always supposed to be since 2003.
288 09Dec21=======================================================================
289 1. Moved isregistered to DXChannel for safety...
290 08Dec21=======================================================================
291 1. Get to the bottom of why ssid'd calls were using the base call's
292 credentials. This should now work as expected.
293 06Dec21=======================================================================
294 1. Improve console.pl scrolling. Split long lines (eg on announcements.
295 04Dec21=======================================================================
296 1. Fix illogicalities in USDB creations and make sure that O_CREAT on tie does
297 NOT encounter an existing file to barf about. Even though it shouldn't.
298 Thanks Howard WB3FFV.
299 2. Fixed a typo in show/registered that prevents a list of callsigns being
300 searched for. Got rid of some over complex code. Thanks Fabrizio iZ0UIN.
301 3. Fix long line wrapping in console.pl
302 03Dec21=======================================================================
303 1. Move motd and issue files to local_data if not already there.
304 30Nov21=======================================================================
305 1. Fix sh/dx with callsigns that have /p or VE/G1TLH in them.
306 2. Add unset/ak1a, unset/arcluster aliases and some minimal help for UNSET/
307 SPIDER, NODE, ARCLUSTER, AKIA and also SET/USER.
308 26Nov21=======================================================================
309 1. *Really* change spot display format and sh/dx format "back the way they
310 were. But They won't stay that way for long!!!! There are four (yes, count
311 them) completely unused spaces at the end of the line!!!!
312 25Nov21=======================================================================
313 1. Restored spot format back to the way it was.
314 2. Added CTY-3127 prefixes
315 24Nov21=======================================================================
316 1. Make /spider/perl/create_sysop.pl work on a base git cloned tree.
317 2. Add /spider/local /spider/local_cmd /spider/local_data to git.
318 3. Make user supplied console width (set/width) sticky.
319 19Nov21=======================================================================
320 1. Add the ability of console.pl to resize and have dx spots also resize so
321 that the comment field's size will increase accordingly. Sh/dx amd sh/mydx
322 also work similarly. If you make the console width smaller or wider then
323 spots already on the screen will not resize.
324 2. For client programs that parse the output (why? use set/ve7cc to get more
325 easily machine parsed output), a new command "set/width <width>" is
327 18Nov21=======================================================================
328 1. Add a dx spot cache which will store 2 days worth (configurable) of spots.
329 This is then used by the vast majority of simple sh/dx queries without
330 using a sub process. A simple sh/dx is any sh/dx that does not have an
331 "expression" such as "sh/dx g1tlh". So "sh/dx", "sh/dx 200", "sh/mydx" will
332 always run in the main program via the cache. Certain client programs (no
333 names, no pack drill) will notice the difference immediately. It's also a
335 2. set/badspotter or set/badnode will work for RBN input.
336 3. RBN input with invalid QRGs will be dropped with a nice friendly message
337 rather than a scary exception message about multiplication thrown by one
338 of the libraries that I use.
339 4. Added CTY-3126 prefixes.
340 5. Silently ignore self spotting below 1240000Khz (change
341 $Spot::minselfspot to 0 to disable or some other freq in Khz). NOTE this
342 will appear as a spot to the spotter's feed, but will not be passed on.
343 15Jul21=======================================================================
344 1. Fix long standing bug in crontabs that commands with " rather than ' around
345 strings could cause those commands not to work.
346 2. Add CTY 3117 prefixes.
347 15Mar21=======================================================================
348 1. Fix DXUtil::localdata so that it does actually prefer the latest version
349 of a file regardless of whether it is in /spider/data or /spider/localdata.
350 2. Add CTY-3105 prefixes.
351 05Mar21=======================================================================
352 1. Fix DXCron::spawn_cmd so that more than one spawn_cmd can be active at a
353 time. This affects many nodes where lots of regular spawn_cmds happen at
354 a time and this prevented crucial things like 'start_connect' from working!
355 2. Sort user lockout issues to cope with all likely scenarios - including
356 "phantom" SSID working.
357 3. Fix "close_gracefully" error messages which are useless, but benign. These
358 happen (mainly) when outgoing connects timeout.
359 24Feb21=======================================================================
360 1. modify RBN timing arrangements
362 There are two new twiddle pots:
364 $limbotime (default 5*60 secs) which allows potential spots to
365 hang around longer to allow $minqual *different* skimmers to spot
366 them. At which point they are emitted. This is to catch the "slow
367 burning" spots where a call is spotted by different skimmers but
368 separated in time by more than $dwelltime - in fact maybe by
371 $maxqual (default 9 skimmers) which short circuits the normal
372 hard maximum $quality (9 skimmer spots) and $dwelltime (10secs)
373 to allow a spot that has $maxqual *different* skimmers (usually
374 as the result of a burst from the RBN) to defeat $dwelltime and
375 be emitted the moment that condition is satisfied. There maybe
376 a better name for this.
377 21Feb21=======================================================================
378 1. add data section on 160m in bands.pl.
379 07Sep20=======================================================================
380 1, Change interface to watchdbg & grepdbg slightly so that multiple search
381 regexes are ANDed rather than ORed together. ORing is easily achieved
382 already by the usual regex pattern 'PATT..|PATT..|..' whereas ANDing could
383 not be done as easily without resorting lots of 'PATT.*PATH' things which
384 would not necessarily get what was wanted.
385 2. Make sure that the pc92 C record only contains nodes and users and not
386 other extranoeus things like skimmers...
387 15Aug20=======================================================================
388 1. Simplify the skimmer scoring mechanism.
389 13Aug20=======================================================================
390 1. Improve the (displayed) RBN frequency weighting the skimmers' frequencies
391 w.r.t majority view on each spot. Any skimmer that disagrees with a
392 gets docked a 'point' from their 'good' score (if any) and have a 'point'
393 added to their 'bad' score. This score is then taked into account during
394 the 'choosing the real frequency' process. If a skimmer agrees with the
395 majority the process is reversed. To see this in action: set/deb rbnskim
396 06Aug20=======================================================================
397 1, Add CTY-3013 Prefixes
398 2. Make RBN more efficient. Start the process of skimmer node performance
399 caching. Add minimum quality allowed (at 2), which will be overrideable.
400 The format of the rbn_cache has changed and so a full restart will occur.
401 3. Collect channel input/output stats. New command: show/data_stats to show
403 4. Add local::lib qw{/spider/perl5lib} to store cpanm loaded modules just for
404 DXSpider. This is done so that updates needed by future changes can be done
405 as the sysop user and doesn't have to be done as root. This paves the way
406 for UPDATE.pl which will pull down new modules that it needs automatically.
407 When it's written, which will be soon.
408 29Jul20=======================================================================
409 1. Add show/rbn command that allows one to see who is online and configured
410 for RBN. See help sh/rbn for details.
411 2. Fixed issue with set/ve7cc mode adding unwanted newlines to output.
412 3. Attempted to make the QRG normalisation more "intelligent". This would be
413 sooooooooo much easier if skimmers were calibrated more accurately.
414 4. Added CTY-3012 prefixes.
415 23Jul20=======================================================================
416 1. fix Filtering so that it does less of what it was doing badly, thus
417 the perl interpreter to do more of the work. Which means you *should* be
418 able to define more or less any allowable operation for that type of
419 filter. Which is a complicated way of saying: you can now use brackets.
420 2. Regex expressions now appear as readable text in sh/filter.
421 3. Make the RBN status file JSON, rather than DD format. In future versions
422 it will also be VERSIONed to enable more features to be added
424 4. Add show/rbn command to allow sysops to see who is using rbn.
425 11Jul20=======================================================================
426 1. Fix (embarrassing) gratuitous '#'s in bands.pl
427 2. IMPORTANT: certain PC92 strings can crash DXSpider if the nologchan debug
428 category is set (which reduces debug files to sizes that non-developers can
429 reasonably store (especially during big contests)),
430 10Jul20=======================================================================
431 1. Fix console.pl permissions problem when running as another user not in
432 debug mode. Console.pl WILL NOT WORK in debug mode unless it is running
434 08Jul20=======================================================================
435 1. "Finish" the RBN system :-)
436 2. This includes enabling the coarse selection of spot modes using set/wantrbn
437 with arguments like 'set/wantrbn cw beacon'. This limits your output to
438 just CW, BCN and DXF modes.
439 3. The RBN spot is now cached. With a following wind, this means that even a
440 node restart, done in a timely fashion (within a few minutes) will not
441 cause a "cache warmup" delay for users on a restart.
442 4. Added the "full fat" set/wantrbn command and aliased it to 'set/skimmer'.
443 I use both terms (whenever I remembered) in the help text.
444 5. Help text has been written.
445 6. The UPGRADE.mojo file has been tweeked to point out the users file format
447 7. Merge in users.v3j to the mojo branch.
448 8. Add CTY-3011 prefixes.
449 07Jul20=======================================================================
450 1. Fix show/node command.
451 2. Fix show/cluster command to take into account the presence of skimmer nodes
452 which are a new category of thing which is neither a node nor a user.
453 06Jul20=======================================================================
454 1. Add RBN.mojo with information of the RBN capabilities of DXSpider.
455 05Jul20=======================================================================
457 2. Add HAPROXY "real ip" type 1 handling for incoming connections.
458 04Jul20=======================================================================
459 1. Give console.pl (or dx) a good going over with a bog brush to *finally*
460 (cough) make it work correctly with a full 80 column window (and not just
461 to a width of 79 really). Also fix scrolling.
462 28Jun20=======================================================================
463 1. Merge mojo with users.v3j to remove all vestages of Storable from DXSpider
464 in an effort to make the whole storage thing more reliable (and also a
465 bit faster). The user file will be auto-upgraded on restart. This may take
466 up to 20 seconds on slower hardware (and maybe a bit longer on huge user
467 files). On my 180,000 odd users, on my hardware, it takes 4 seconds.
468 2. The DXQSL system storage is also upgraded, Please run
469 /spider/perl/create_dxqsl.pl in a spare shell. This will recreate the
470 dxqsl.v1j file. Run 'load/dxqsl' in the console to activate it.
471 17Jun20=======================================================================
472 1. Change the Spot file reading mechanism back to the default of using 'tac'.
473 08Jun20=======================================================================
474 1. Fix show/mydx (lack of) filtering bug.
475 2. Add qra locator to prefix_data.pl.
476 3. Add 4 digit qra square for spotted callsign if show/dxgrid is enabled.
477 4. Fix general filtering bug where erroneous input causes crashing.
478 03Jun20=======================================================================
479 1. Make sure that all possible regexes get passed across to the search engine.
480 2. Fix out of order logging on sh/log queries spanning more than one month.
481 3. Do not read backwards on sh/dx, reading forwards seems a 1/3 quicker.
482 4. Add <ms>, <tr> and <es> shortcuts to sh/dx (e.g sh/dx <tr> on 2m).
483 02Jun20=======================================================================
484 1. Fix the small whoopsie in sh/dx.
485 01Jun20=======================================================================
486 1. Fix sh/dx iota and qra. This completes the conversion of sh/dx's limited
487 "old style" parsing to using Filter style parsing with something that
488 allows expressions include brackets ( and ) as well as the 'not' keyword.
489 NOTE: the precedence rules are the same as perl's '!', '||' and '&&'
491 31May20=======================================================================
492 1. Improve links command layout slightly.
493 2. Issue an *accurate* UPGRADE.mojo with all the new packages included!
494 3. Fix issue with sh/dx
495 30May20=======================================================================
496 1. Fix sh/dx! It appears that there is a long standing problem with sh/dx not
497 actually return all the answers it should. I have also had a request to
498 allow / enable the "not" keyword (just like the filtering system dones).
500 Now this was one of the earliest modules that I wrote and it took quite
501 a bit of work to tease out the important bits and then use the Filter
502 module (as in acc/spot) to generate the sh/dx filtering expressions. This
503 seems to have been done.
505 NB This will likely not work if you are using a SQL backend to do sh/dx
506 commands. This was never actually an official feature. It is now
508 29May20=======================================================================
509 1. Please install Math::Round and Data::Structure::Util. Instructions are
510 available in UPGRADE.mojo.
511 2. ** Withdrawn ** user file format change to json not yet committed.
512 20May20=======================================================================
513 1. Backport convert-users-v3-to-v4.pl to allow creation of the new json
514 formatted *text* based user file from the old v3 DB_File and Storable
515 version. This can be done either online (with the node running) or offline
516 with the node stopped. This is in preparation for the next update of the
517 mojo branch. Running this program just *BEFORE* doing your next update of
518 the mojo branch *should* ensure a seemless transition to the Storable &
519 DB_File free version of the users file.
520 2. Show git branch in show/version.
521 3. Add CTY-3010 changes.
522 17May20=======================================================================
523 1. Backport DXSubprocess to change serialisations.
524 Currently the internals of Mojo::IOLoop::Subprocess defaults to
525 using Storeable as its cross-process argument and data serialisaion
526 method. It can use others. This update reverts back to the
527 original ForkCall method of using JSON.
528 10May20=======================================================================
529 1. Added basic changes so that users *could* have multiple connections to the
530 same node if it is allowed. This is work in progress and is there to see
531 if it deals with some networking problems encountered on very high volume
532 sites which can see more than 1000 users (although the problems can occur
533 with many hundreds or by the practices of certain ISPs). More information
534 will be forthcoming if I get to the bottom of what's REALLY going on and
535 whether this is (or maybe just one part of) the solution. It won't be
536 ready for general use until then.
537 2. Fixed the script import error reported by Joaquin (EA3CV?), by the simple
538 expedient of restoring the version from the master branch.
539 09May20=======================================================================
540 1. Show the route by which this PCxx came in progress debugging reports. In
541 some other words: the spot/wwv/wcy/ann message arrived first from this
543 2. Improve progress WWV & WCY messages.
544 3. Stop random node isolations (at least in one place)
545 08May20=======================================================================
546 1. Tidy up routing table
547 2. Add new argument to show/version (ALL or list of regexes) that allow you
548 to see the version and build nos of all nodes on the system.
549 07May20=======================================================================
550 1. Revert changes made since 25Apr concerning IP address reconciliation.
551 25Apr20=======================================================================
552 1. Add maximum no of users on node to show/cluster.
553 2. Add ability to show last n lines of debugging ring buffer.
554 3. Remove redundant wpxloc.dat file.
555 24Apr20=======================================================================
556 1. Add 'progress' debugging for showing that stuff is happening in nologchan
557 a.k.a ringbuffer only mode.
558 2. Fix grepdbg so that no regex argument simply lists the file.
559 3. Add CTY-3008 prefixes.
560 22Apr20=======================================================================
561 1. Fix the module search path in update_sysop.pl
562 2. Add latest prefixes CTY-3007
563 3. Fix unset/startup command. This will only work for users' start up scripts
564 things like user_default or startup must be edited or removed by hand.
565 21Apr20=======================================================================
566 1. Finally fix the "actually tranmit" any output (like from 'logout' files)
567 to users before disconnecting. This also means that disconnecting nodes
568 now receive the (totally redundant, but hey) PC39 reason for disconnection.
569 20Apr20=======================================================================
570 1. Speed up sh/log (including chat, rcmd, ann etc) that search the system
571 log files, by removing a completely redundant subsystem and also leveraging
572 the core operating system utility 'tac', if it's available.
573 19Apr20=======================================================================
574 1. The long haul that is the mojo branch has started up again. It's something
575 to do during this lockdown.
576 2. The problems and instabilities around running commands that worked in
577 forked processes, when used other than by normally logged in users (e.g.
578 in the local crontab), have been fixed.
579 3. If a /spider/local_data/logout file is present then its contents will be
580 sent to the user on logout.
581 4. Add the ability to sh/dx origin or ip (address).
582 5. Retire the use of the deprecated Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall in favour of using
583 the supported equivalent in Mojolicious 7.26 and above. Which means you
584 will need to upgrade Mojo to at least the version. The current version is
585 8.36 and is known to work.
586 10Sep19=======================================================================
587 1. Improve DXSql database filtering to exclude most via <locator> type
589 2. Add CTY-2913 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
590 14Jul18=======================================================================
591 1. Add CTY-2808 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
592 16Jun18=======================================================================
593 1. add more modes to rbn.pl
594 23Jan18=======================================================================
595 1. Add CTY-2802 prefixes
596 27Oct17=======================================================================
597 1. Get correct hostname support and privilege levels on web connects.
598 26Oct17=======================================================================
599 1. Start (serious) work on web interface. Make the necessary changes to allow
600 a local webserver to connect and get its own style of messages.
601 11Aug17=======================================================================
602 1. Add default systemd service file file
603 10Aug17=======================================================================
604 1. check for disconnecting flag in more places
605 31Jul17=======================================================================
606 1. Fixed create_usdb.pl path specifications
607 2. add CTY-2708 prefixes
608 12May17=======================================================================
609 1. Fix sh/425 (mostly)
610 2. Add CTY-2706 prefixes
611 05May17=======================================================================
612 1. Add CTY-2705 prefixes
613 04Apr17=======================================================================
614 1. Add CTY-2704 prefixes
615 17Mar17=======================================================================
616 1. Add latest cty.dat & wpxloc.raw
617 21Feb17=======================================================================
618 1. Fix sh/dx on 14050 so that it does what one expects.
619 2. Add CTY-2702 prefixes
620 15Feb17=======================================================================
621 1. Update UPGRADE.mojo a bit
622 2. Add local::lib so that it can be used for non-root installations.
623 09Jan17=======================================================================
624 1. Fix mojo branch clean install issues (failing to find $main::data et al)
625 02Jan17=======================================================================
626 1. Add CTY-2615 prefixes
627 2. Add rbn.pl - an experimental rbn deduplicating spot filter.
628 26Dec16=======================================================================
629 1. Fix some possible routes to $myalias callsigns becoming nodes.
630 22Nov16=======================================================================
631 1. Add CTY-2614 prefixes
632 21Nov16=======================================================================
633 1. Add CTY-2613 prefixes
634 17Nov16=======================================================================
635 1. Change method (again) of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl. Split out
636 main process from children and display each separately.
637 16Nov16=======================================================================
638 1. Change method of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl
639 18Aug16=======================================================================
641 2. put back msg total in & total out for mrtg and background mrtg
642 3. add dxcc == ADIF country code.
643 16Aug16=======================================================================
644 1. Mega change to push all local data in $root/local_data and where there
645 is duplication with system data (still in $root/data) then use whichever
646 is newer. This will move stuff (permanently) like spots and other DXLog
647 files to local_data as well as the userfile, DX QSL file and usdb stuff.
648 25Jul16=======================================================================
649 1. Add some timing stats to cmd spawn_cmd.
650 08Jul16=======================================================================
651 1. Add latest wpxloc.raw
653 28Mar16=======================================================================
654 1. Fix get/keps.pl so that it does the right fetch
655 25Mar16=======================================================================
656 1. Rework DXCron::spawn command to use Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall
657 04Jan16=======================================================================
658 1. Add CTY-2601 prefix file
659 02Jan16=======================================================================
660 1. fix new URL for sh/425 command
661 30Dec15=======================================================================
662 1. Add CTY-2516 prefix file
663 2. Try to stop and also reset node call user records back to 'S'
664 3. Fix multiple on_disc events in AsyncMsg.pm
665 02Jun15=======================================================================
666 1. Extend regex for quit to allow other commands starting in 'q'.
667 2. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
668 26May15=======================================================================
669 1. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
670 01Mar15=======================================================================
671 1. Add CTY-2503 prefix file
672 13Feb15=======================================================================
673 1. Fix problem with sh/dx <call> if people are logging spots to a SQL database
674 3. Added CTY-2502 prefixes.
675 3. My late father would have been 102 today.
676 27Nov14=======================================================================
677 1. Add CTY-2415 prefix list
678 25Nov14=======================================================================
679 1. Add CTY-2414 prefix list
680 21Nov14=======================================================================
681 1. Add CTY-2413 prefix list
682 21Oct14=======================================================================
683 1. Add CTY-2011 prefixes
684 16Sep14=======================================================================
685 1. Add CTY2410 wpxloc.raw + cty.dat
686 2. remove autoflush from logs
687 16Sep14=======================================================================
688 1. Fix (now) missing error_handler
689 30Aug14=======================================================================
690 1. add CTY-2409 prefixes
691 2. add new wpxloc.raw
692 19Jul14=======================================================================
693 1. Use JSON::XS for ForkCall serialisation in DXCommandmode.pm
694 19Jun14=======================================================================
695 1. Fix EOF detection of incoming nodes.
696 2. Attempt to autogenerate Version.pm with *correct* values (instead of the
697 the git id of the previous commit). Oh, and do it on every commit or pull.
698 17Jun14=======================================================================
699 1. Add CTY2405 prefix changes
700 2. Arrange for all file searching routines based on sh/dx or sh/log to be
701 non-blocking. This should allow incoming and outgoing protocol to
702 continue flowing when such a command is run.
703 3. Added some usable code to show/wx (finally).
704 4. Make stats cmds (sh/v?hfstats, sh/v?hftable) non-blocking.
705 5. Make sh/isolate, sh/registered, sh/lockout non-blocking.
706 6. Fix shutdown command.
707 16Jun14=======================================================================
708 1. Get AsyncMsg working for HTTP type ephemeral connections
709 21Apr14=======================================================================
710 1. Add CTY-2405 prefix list
711 08Mar14=======================================================================
712 1. Add newer version of wpxloc.raw with some missing prefixes added.
713 07Mar14=======================================================================
714 1. Add new version of wpxloc.raw
715 2. Fix a small crash with Spot::dup
716 12Jan14=======================================================================
717 1. Fix minor issue with dx command when used in a script, as found by
719 2. Fix (rather serious) error in import_cmd that did not reset callsigns
720 correctly in $main::me.
721 30Dec13=======================================================================
722 1. Add CTY2312 prefix changes
723 19Nov13=======================================================================
724 1. Add CTY2311 Prefix changes - needed for CQWW 2013
725 09Oct13=======================================================================
726 1. Add CTY2310 prefix changes
727 13Sep13=======================================================================
728 1. Added CTY2309 prefix data, together with its associated wpxloc.raw file.
729 10Sep13=======================================================================
730 1. Add the get/keps command, which allows a sysop to get the latest AMSAT
731 keplarian elements either on demand or periodically in the crontab.
732 10Sep13=======================================================================
733 1. Fix sh/time such that no arguments print details for the caller.
734 09Sep13=======================================================================
735 1. Make all the Net::Telnet based commands (sh/425, sh/contest, sh/db0sdx,
736 sh/wm7d, sh/ik3qar) asynchronous, so that they no longer pause the node
737 while they go off and query the internet for results.
738 06Sep13=======================================================================
739 1. Fixed sh/contest so that it works again. How it ever worked at all is
740 a bit of a mystery. Now possible to type sh/cont dec or sh/cont dec 2013
741 (with month and year in any order). Please comment out any $contest_host
742 or $contest_url variables you may have in /spider/local/Internet.pm (if
743 you have one, that is). It will not work with the previous values.
744 2. Added CTY2308 prefix changes.
745 3. Added (back) internal function support inside commands. This allows
746 commands to create functions inside the <cmd_name>.pl files. There are
747 now also standard function names that can do special things.
748 24Jul13=======================================================================
749 1. Alter default node address in client.c from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1".
750 21Jul13=======================================================================
751 1. Fix Msg.pm to allow IPV6 addresses again (how did it ever work?).
752 2. Add latest CTY2307 prefix changes.
753 3. Other changes including (some) more prefix files, 4mm band data and
755 4. Add ip address in links.pl
756 31May12=======================================================================
757 1. Added CTY2210 prefix changes
758 29May12=======================================================================
759 1. Added CTY2209 prefix changes
760 10Apr12=======================================================================
761 1. Added DXSql/Pg postgres Spot collection interface from Wijnand PD0MZ.
762 2. Add CTY2206 prefix changes
763 13Mar12=======================================================================
764 1. add CTY2204 prefix changes + new wpxloc.raw
765 12Mar12=======================================================================
766 1. Check database operations on MySQL/SQlite3.
767 2. Add ipaddr field to spot table if not present.
768 3. Add ipaddr field from PC61 to database stored spots.
769 09Mar12=======================================================================
770 1. Try to trap unblessed references on receipt of PC34s
771 15Feb12=======================================================================
772 1. Add CTY2202 changes
773 25Jan12=======================================================================
774 1. Add CTY2201 changes
775 21Dec11=======================================================================
776 1. Add CTY2118 changes
777 20Dec11=======================================================================
778 1. fix strange startup repeating lockfile issue where (somehow) there is an
779 empty (but existing) lockfile, from GB7YDX.
780 29Nov11=======================================================================
781 1. fix shutdown() in Msg.pm
782 2. Add CTY2117 changes
783 05Nov11=======================================================================
784 1. Add CTY2116 changes
785 04Nov11=======================================================================
786 1. Add CTY2115 changes
787 20Oct11=======================================================================
788 1. Add CTY2113 Changes
789 02Oct11=======================================================================
790 1. change 40m bandplan after some input from Martin, ik2rmz
791 2. Add CTY2112 changes
792 25Jul11=======================================================================
793 1. add CTY2109 changes + wpxloc.raw for ST0
794 2. add CTY2110 changes
795 24May11=======================================================================
796 1. Add CTY-2108 prefixes
797 04Apr11=======================================================================
798 1. After being poked by Brendan EI6IZ, add outgoing IPV6 connect() handling
799 29Mar11=======================================================================
800 1. Add CTY-2106 prefixes
801 16Mar11=======================================================================
802 1. Add CTY-2105 prefixes
803 10Mar11=======================================================================
804 1. Add CTY-2104 prefixes
805 01Mar11=======================================================================
806 1. Add CTY-2103 prefixes
807 31Oct10=======================================================================
808 1. Increase PC92 A/D "slug" time to 5 minutes.
809 29Oct10=======================================================================
810 1. Allow Jim AD1C to track the changes to the cluster in realtime using the
811 debug system (set/debug cluster).
812 27Oct10=======================================================================
813 1. fix chat problem introduced in the last update
814 25Oct10=======================================================================
815 1. Drop PC12s purporting to originate at nodes that do PC9x (suggestion from
817 2. Increase default dup age for announces from 5 -> 18 hours.
818 3. add CTY 2009 cty.dat data.
819 4. Stop downgrading and sending CHAT messages on PC12 groups as it appears
820 that this is yet another "standard" that isn't universally understood.
821 23Oct10=======================================================================
822 1. add dbexport command to allow the export of ak1a style databases to a
824 2. add dxqsl_import and dxqsl_export commands to allow the import and export
825 of sh/dxsql qsl manager data extracted from spots as they pass through.
826 04Oct10=======================================================================
827 1. add CTY-2007 prefix list
828 04Oct10=======================================================================
829 1. incorporated the major prefix release CTY-2006 from Jim AD1C
830 17Jun10=======================================================================
831 1. Add ip address to dxspots and default to PC61 output to dxspider nodes.
832 2. Allow 4 letter callsign portions again.
833 16Jun10=======================================================================
834 1. Increase default ephemeral dupe time for PC41 and such like lines.
835 2. Include CTY-2004 updates.
836 08Apr10=======================================================================
837 1. Modify console.pl so that it works in a Windows Cmd window. Get a Windows
838 Curses ppd from: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Curses.
839 18Mar10=======================================================================
840 1. Make privilege 0 "stick" if set on nodes
841 13Mar10=======================================================================
842 1. try to fix AGW crashes caused by peerhost looking at the wrong thing.
843 2. Add more ax25 fixes for peerhost
844 03Mar10=======================================================================
845 1. add IP addresses to connecting PC92 A addresses and log them
846 2. add CTY-2002 prefixes
847 27Nov09=======================================================================
848 1. Add 500khz band as suggested by Béla, HA5DI.
849 2. Add CTY-1923 prefixes
850 26Nov09=======================================================================
851 1. add ip address to PC92 A records
852 25Nov09=======================================================================
853 1. Change sh/qrz to use the xml interface. You will have to subscribe to
854 the xml interface - see http://www.qrz.com/XML/index.html for more info.
855 2. Remove (bodged) forced encoding to iso-8859 on incoming text. More
856 subtle handling will be required.
857 3. Add CTY-1922 prefixes
858 14Nov09=======================================================================
859 1. Add CTY-1921 prefixes
860 2. allow -SSID values on set/badnode
861 27Aug09=======================================================================
862 1. Add CTY-1913 prefixes
863 2. Limit Route::config to 10 levels (as default)
864 08Jul09=======================================================================
865 1. Add CTY-1912 prefixes
866 26Jun09=======================================================================
867 1. Add CTY-1911 prefixes
868 14Jun09=======================================================================
869 1. Add CTY-1910 prefixes
870 04Jun09=======================================================================
871 1. removed warnings from debug.c from the C Client.
872 2. Add CTY-1909 prefixes
873 02Jun09=======================================================================
874 1. Add CTY-1908 prefixes
875 29May09=======================================================================
876 1. Add CTY-1907 prefixes
877 19May09=======================================================================
878 1. Add CTY-1905 prefixes
879 15May09=======================================================================
880 1. Add CTY-1904 prefixes
881 2. Accommodate "official" git command syntax in issue.pl
882 29Dec08=======================================================================
883 1. Add show/motd command as requested by Ian G0VGS.
884 2. add CTY-1817 prefixes
885 17Nov08=======================================================================
886 1. Fix sh/425 to work with new server
887 2. add CTY-1814 prefixes
888 21Oct08=======================================================================
889 1. Add CTY-1811 prefixes
890 04Oct08=======================================================================
891 1. set $main::maxconnect_node = 0 as default. It's causing too much aggro..
892 02Oct08=======================================================================
893 1. Add set/maxconnect command to allow the defaults to be overridden for
894 individual users/nodes.
895 2. Make sure that the check really is for incoming connections only...
896 01Oct08=======================================================================
897 1. added CTY-1809 prefix data
898 2. added new config variables to allow an incoming users to have (as default)
899 up to 2 other connections to other nodes and incoming nodes up to 8 other
900 parents. Note that you can switch off this behaviour by setting
901 $main::maxconnect_user or $main::maxconnect_node = 0 (or set them to whatever
903 28Jun08=======================================================================
904 1. Made buddies work again on PC92.
905 26Jun08=======================================================================
906 1. added show/ik3qar command by Leo IZ5FSA. See comments in perl/Internet.pm
907 for setup instructions (note that you will have to copy these lines to
908 local/Internet.pm before it will work).
909 2. Send talks to every node a user is logged onto.
910 24Jun08=======================================================================
911 1. Change the route finding algorithm completely. No more recursion. No more
912 tree searching. It now gives you answers even on a partial cluster map. Oh
913 and the answers are correct, instead on completely random.
914 2. Put back (maybe some of) US State handling.
915 3. Add CTY-1806 prefix data
916 28May08=======================================================================
917 1. remove "recursion limit" message from Route.pm
918 28May08=======================================================================
919 1. Improve the detection of short exact callsigns that are out of prefix area
920 (eg K7A) (thank you FCC).
921 2. Improve long line handling on console.pl
922 3. Add CTY-1805 cty.dat
923 26May08=======================================================================
924 1. Put a hard limit on the depth of searching for routes
925 2. Add CTY-1804 prefix changes
926 13May08=======================================================================
927 1. add disc users|nodes|all so that each of these classes can be disconnected
928 in one command. From a request by Luigi IK5ZUK.
929 12May08=======================================================================
930 1. add 'exact' keyword on sh/dx to allow for an exact match to a callsign.
931 From a request by Robert HB9DZA.
932 10May08=======================================================================
933 1. add some privileges to (un)set/bad* and show/bad* commands. Thanks to
934 Mauro IV3SCP for pointing this out to me.
935 06May08=======================================================================
936 1. Finally made the incompatible change of changing DXUser->get* to
937 DXUser::get*. This will break any third party addons or commands use these
939 2. Change version to 1.55
940 3. Drop the lower limit of 60m to 5100 after Dave G7RAU pointed out usage.
941 (see http://www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=60)
942 22Apr08=======================================================================
943 1. Added two Xmas Is calls.
944 15Apr08=======================================================================
945 1. added CTY-1803 changes
946 25Mar08=======================================================================
947 1. Include some cty.day changes
948 19Mar08=======================================================================
949 1. Include CTY-1802 cty.dat changes from Jim AD1C
950 29Feb08=======================================================================
951 1. Fix crash on rcmd of an invalid command.
952 25Feb08=======================================================================
953 1. Arrange for AGWMsg to retry connection either if the AGW engine isn't
954 loaded on startup or it disappears for some reason and restarts.
955 19Feb08=======================================================================
956 1. Added CTY-1801 cty.dat data.
957 2. Fix problem with entering non-ascii data and then executing commands that
958 are guessed from the "cleaned up" version of the string. Now if you enter
959 commands with invalid characters, it will error immediately.
960 3. fix a problem detecting IPV4 localhost on IPV6 enabled systems.
961 10Feb08=======================================================================
962 1. sort sh/node output. Also show more information.
963 05Feb08=======================================================================
964 1. Added a Windows only BPQ interface from the man himself: John G8BPQ.
965 See some instructions in /spider/txt/spiderBPQ_en.txt for how to use it.
966 07Jan08=======================================================================
967 1. more changes to cty.dat
968 07Jan08=======================================================================
969 1. added TO5FJ to cty.dat (under orders from Jim AD1C :-)
970 05Jan08=======================================================================
971 1. Made necessary change to get DXSpider to (seem to) work in perl 5.10
972 27Dec07=======================================================================
973 1, added CTY-1711 prefix changes (and new wpxloc.raw) from Jim AD1C.
974 25Nov07=======================================================================
975 1. Fix a crash on receiving an rcmd from an new node.
976 21Nov07=======================================================================
977 1. Added CTY-1710 prefix changes
978 19Nov07=======================================================================
979 1. change MRTG graphs to be based on GMT, not localtime. This allows one to
980 more easily compare debug data with traffic graphs.
981 2. Add a create/user command to just add a plain user.
982 17Nov07=======================================================================
983 1. Add Local::ann() as requested by Felipe PY1NB.
984 16Nov07=======================================================================
985 1. add CTY-1709 prefix changes
986 2. added extra checking for the time stamp on PC9x sentences. These must now
987 be within 15 minutes (configurable) of this node's time to be accepted.
988 3. made show/newc terminal width aware.
989 24Oct07=======================================================================
990 1. Added CTY-1708 prefix changes
991 23Oct07=======================================================================
992 1. Added CTY-1707 prefix changes
993 15Oct07=======================================================================
994 1. prevent PC61 from propagating outside spider boxes.
995 2. simplify the regex for sh/contest to allow it to work on perl < 5.8.x.
996 09Oct07=======================================================================
997 1. Added *VERY* important change to prevent loops on PC9x sentences.
998 06Oct07=======================================================================
999 1. added the possibility of having a motd_ax25 especially for sending to
1000 radio connections after a suggestion by Paolo YV1DIG.
1001 05Oct07=======================================================================
1002 1. Handle PC61 from VE1CC clusters as PC11.
1003 01Oct07=======================================================================
1004 1. fix .gtkconsole_data creation bug.
1005 27Sep07=======================================================================
1006 1. Fixed gtkconsole to split out all the windows. See
1007 /spider/gtkconsole/README for installation and usage instructions. This
1008 program will work on both Windows and Linux provided the extra Gtk2 perl
1009 libraries + dependencies are installed. Instructions for getting them are in
1011 25Sep07=======================================================================
1012 1. Fix mrtg command so that it does not require /var/lock (which anyway gets
1013 removed and recreated on boot - and the debianised mrtg does not recognise
1014 that) nor /var/lib/mrtg for the confcache (whatever that is).
1015 24Sep07=======================================================================
1016 1. fix error message on disconnect and, BTW, fix the cause of premature
1017 disconnections in the new PC92 code.
1018 22Sep07=======================================================================
1019 1. fix mrtg script so that it sets LANG='C', in addition, it appears that you
1020 will need to create a /var/lock/mrtg and /var/lib/mrtg directory, both with
1021 chmod 01777 /var/lock/mrtg /var/lib/mrtg. They may already exist but without
1022 the correct permissions.
1023 15Sep07=======================================================================
1024 1. Add *optional* INET6 connectivity. In order to use this you must load
1025 IO::Socket::INET6 and its dependencies from CPAN or get the distro's packaged
1026 versions. I used 'sudo aptitude install libio-socket-inet6-perl' for ubuntu
1027 (which should work for debian as well), for fedora/rpm based systems
1028 'sudo yum install perl-IO-Socket-INET6' or near equiv should work. This has
1029 been done quite simplistically, but it seems to work.
1030 10Sep07=======================================================================
1031 1. Remove warnings for EINPROGRESS etc for Windows perl 5.8.
1032 2. Try to see if using just one lastid is viable in all situations. If it is
1033 then this will cure the talk problem.
1034 20Aug07=======================================================================
1035 1. add cty.dat + wpxloc.raw changes for CTY-1706.
1036 31Jul07=======================================================================
1037 1. extend 60m band slighty and add ssb section.
1038 2. add a new cty.dat (CTY-1705) from Jim AD1C.
1039 27Jul07=======================================================================
1040 1. Added Angel's changes to Messages for Spanish (finally).
1041 25Jul07=======================================================================
1042 1. don't clear out routing tables on shutdown. This should speed that up.
1043 24Jul07=======================================================================
1044 1. Try to target PC93 (the combined talk/ann/chat sentence) better. Prevent
1045 PC12 chat going to non-dxspider and non-ak1a nodes. None of the others seem to
1046 handle it correctly (Lee VE7CC: do you?).
1047 2. a few other tidyups,
1048 see: http://www.dxcluster.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=spider.git
1050 18Jul07=======================================================================
1051 1. Change the meaning of set/isolate. Set/isolate now works in both directions
1052 in that an isolated node will only have its local config remembered and will
1053 only be sent this nodes local config. This is exactly equivalent to both
1054 ends setting set/isolate. If that is already the case then there should be
1055 no noticeable change. Any extra that the far node sends, over and above its
1056 local config will now be ignored.
1057 17Jul07=======================================================================
1058 1. remove dupefile on startup and on ending the node. Add clear/dupefile
1059 command to allow people to do it at runtime as well.
1060 12Jul07=======================================================================
1061 1. Change disconnection code so that nodes that are no longer routable are
1063 2. Add help for sh/band and also allow query of individual band or regions.
1064 11Jul07=======================================================================
1065 1. improve speed of sh/c/n
1066 2. remove all $Id$ strings from cmd tree
1067 09Jul07=======================================================================
1068 1. remove check for PC93 from legacy nodes. This will allow PC10s to be
1069 propagated correctly. Probably.
1070 08Jul07=======================================================================
1071 1. put in a temporary fix to the crashing on incoming PC10 talks, whilst I
1072 try to work out how it is happening.
1073 06Jul07=======================================================================
1074 1. re-arrange id checking so that it is more logical and check that config
1075 records, that can be an hour coming, are not thoughtlessly ignored, thus
1076 causing nodes to time out.
1077 2. Make sure that the 'over midnight' distance calculation actually does what
1079 3. Tart up version number reporting in sh/node.
1080 4. Pass the correct number of parameters in pc93 -> pc12 conversions which
1081 should stop returning PC12s coming out as SYSOP announces.
1082 05Jul07=======================================================================
1083 1. Try to make sure that the node config broadcasts are actually sent...
1084 03Jul07=======================================================================
1085 1. fix unwanted dupe notifications if a PC12 comes back in on a loop.
1086 02Jul07=======================================================================
1087 1. Add a new command to show the contents of the cmd_cache. This allows those
1088 people whom develop their own commands to see which version they are using.
1089 It is called show/cmd_cache (or sh/cmd for short).
1090 2. Add some extra info to the links command. Show whether a link is isolated
1091 and also whether it has filters (if applicable) and whether these are
1092 personalised ('Y') or the default node_filter ('D').
1093 29Jun07=======================================================================
1094 1. If a node is set/isolated then make sure that a) pc9x is not advertised
1095 and b) pc9x is ignored.
1096 2. Add (un)set/wantpc9x command (but please don't use them without talking
1097 to me first), here be dragons!!
1098 25Jun07=======================================================================
1099 1. make sure that a C record is sent for node call every update period.
1100 2. make announces work again (probably).
1101 3. Fix long standing possibility of a crash with a new user.
1102 4. Add continuous chatting (like talk with no message eg 'chat #9000' just on
1103 its own with no message).
1104 24Jun07=======================================================================
1105 1. Fix the routing algorithms to allow route selection in the face of
1106 incomplete trees of nodes (trees as produced by sh/newc).
1107 2. Fix the obscount issues which mean that many nodes get timed out after 3hrs.
1108 3. Extend 4m to 70631 to cover CT.
1109 23Jun07=======================================================================
1110 1. fix basic deduping algorithm
1111 2. rearrange node startup protocol to avoid issuing unnecessary PC92 and also
1112 to spread the PC92Cs out for dependent nodes.
1113 3. increase the PC92C update time to 1 hour.
1114 4. fix sh/route, with a view toward replacing Route::alldxchan.
1115 5. downgrade a link advertising pc9x if no PC92C forthcoming from it back to
1116 old style protocol and carry on, rather than disconnecting (protocol facist
1118 6. Fix isolated pc9x nodes so that they remain in oldstyle protocol.
1119 22Jun07=======================================================================
1120 1. Fix Alias for sh/mydx (so it isn't the same as sh/myfdx).
1121 2. Fix sh/c/n uninitialised variable message
1122 3. Fix (and improve) sh/newc gb7 problem
1123 4. Fix broken set/sys_qra command
1124 21Jun07=======================================================================
1125 1. merge back SIMPLEROUTE branch to issue as official 1.54.
1126 18Jun07=======================================================================
1127 1. add a optional dependency on Encode (included in 5.8.x) to encode strings
1128 to latin1 for deduping purposes, hopefully getting rid of some dupes.
1129 2. add a default INPUT filter for a node (by_dxcc <node's country>) if no
1130 specific or default INPUT node exists.
1131 14Jun07=======================================================================
1132 1. prepare for git repository and moving of anon cvs repository to
1134 13Jun07=======================================================================
1136 2. change all the version / build numbering.
1137 11Jun07=======================================================================
1138 1. Change the frequency normalisation for DX Spot dupe checks so that any
1139 decimal part is thrown away (in other words: truncate the freq to integer khz)
1140 20May07=======================================================================
1142 08Apr07=======================================================================
1143 1. add CTY-1703 cty.dat
1144 2. alter the way the dupefile deletion is done.
1145 18Mar07=======================================================================
1146 1. change URL in show/425.
1147 04Mar07=======================================================================
1148 1. add CTY 1702 prefix data files
1149 22Feb07=======================================================================
1150 1. add show/myfdx to Aliases.
1151 15Feb07=======================================================================
1152 1. allow convkeps.pl to parse NORAD keps files.
1153 22Jan07=======================================================================
1154 1. disable default propagation of PC9x sentences
1155 2. simplify PC17 handling
1156 16Jan07=======================================================================
1157 1. back ported a change to PC16 handling so that a locally connected node's
1158 info clears out and generally overrides any residual PC16 info gathered from
1160 15Jan07=======================================================================
1162 07Jan07=======================================================================
1163 1. use IO::Socket blocking where available and switch off or ignore all
1165 05Jan07=======================================================================
1166 1. increase default ephemeral deduping on PC15 to 6 minutes (from 2).
1167 23Nov06=======================================================================
1168 1. added wrapping to over length lines in console.pl.
1169 03Nov06=======================================================================
1170 1. add CTY-1609 changes
1171 2. add back Geo::Taf code with submitted mods
1172 3. add new version of the sh/425 code using the new database location.
1173 09Oct06=======================================================================
1174 1. fix problems with bad filters pointed by Thomas DL3SBB.
1175 27Jul06=======================================================================
1176 1. merge in official issue version of wpxloc.raw (with one change: 4U1V).
1177 26Jul06=======================================================================
1178 1. incorporated Jim AD1C's spiffy new, unified, wpxloc.raw and version
1180 21Jul06=======================================================================
1181 1. Added the (now) all new gtkconsole program, with all the changes needed in
1182 dxspider to run it (yet another cmd interface (sigh)). You will need gtk2-perl
1183 installed (most modern linux distros do this automatically). The big news is
1184 that this will work on Windows boxes as well if you install the Gtk libraries
1185 as per: http://gtk2-perl.sf.net.
1186 03Jun06=======================================================================
1187 1. Added changes to wpxloc.raw (prefixes) suggested by Jim AD1C.
1188 2. Made a change to prevent xml data being interpreted unless we are
1190 3. Change the buddy messages after a suggestion from Angel EA7WA.
1191 02Apr06=======================================================================
1192 1. incorporated cty-1604 data.
1193 29Mar06=======================================================================
1194 1. fix sh/muf that I broke in the previous change
1195 26Mar06=======================================================================
1196 1. Arrange for any online buddies to be displayed when a user logs on.
1197 2. Try to reduce the amount of POSIX stuff that is loaded to just that which
1199 23Mar06=======================================================================
1200 1. Added cty-1603 data.
1201 2. On the advice of Jim AD1C I have changed around some things in wpxloc.raw
1202 that affect 8J,CT2,KC4,KG4,KG6,ZK1 and ZS2. These should now show the more
1203 likely canonical prefix.
1204 3. On the advice of Tom WB8ZRL, I have made BW an alias for BV (Taiwan) and
1205 made some other changes to affect the selection between the mainland and the
1206 island more reliable.
1207 10Mar06=======================================================================
1209 2. Add new Spanish translations by Angel EA7WA.
1210 07Mar06=======================================================================
1211 1. Add the node call to remote tell_login and tell_buddie calls.
1212 06Mar06=======================================================================
1213 1. Fix warning on empty PC19s.
1214 2. Add new command set/local_node to allow people to see logins/outs on other
1216 3. Add new command set/buddy to allow people to see when their favorite
1218 4. Arrange filter reading so that the following order is followed for users:
1219 callsign, callsign less ssid, user_default. Nodes are unchanged.
1220 14Feb06=======================================================================
1221 1. Turn R and SFI around in mrtg.pl.
1222 13Feb06=======================================================================
1223 1. Updated prefixes with cty-1601 data.
1224 2. Fixed qth in show/muf so that it shows the correct qth (if known).
1225 3. Try to make the state machine in convkeps.pl deal with more variations
1226 of the 2 line keps sets that are available on line. Also give a sensible
1227 error message if no keps were actually decoded.
1228 4. Update the base keps to the latest set of AMSAT keps 06033.
1229 04Feb06=======================================================================
1230 1. Explicitly ignore spots with lower case characters in the spotted call
1231 01Feb06=======================================================================
1232 1. Explicitly ignore spots with blank spotted callsigns
1233 26Jan06=======================================================================
1234 1. Fix divide by 0 error in DXBearing (how come this has taken so long to
1236 22Jan06=======================================================================
1237 1. Remove +<prefix> from the fronts of comments to fix LoTW dupes.
1238 18Jan06=======================================================================
1239 1. Fix spurious announce from previous year appearing in sh/ann.
1240 15Jan06=======================================================================
1241 1. Fix some obviously long standing problems with create_sysop.pl and also
1242 with initialising the User file.
1243 2. Fixed the problem with certain things not being shown in sh/log (because of
1244 a regex that rejected too many things).
1245 3. Speeded up sh/log quite a bit at the same time.
1246 4. Add a default limit of the last 36 months for sh/log querys.
1247 14Jan06=======================================================================
1248 1. undo frequency rounding change, it causes more problems than it solves.
1249 11Jan06=======================================================================
1250 1. Fixed problem with badspotters doing ann/full as pointed out by Luigi
1252 07Jan06=======================================================================
1253 1. Fixed problem with the standalone 'showdx' program pointed out by Leo,
1255 2. Fixed rounding problem on entering spots as pointed out by Ron N5IN.
1256 3. Fixed problem with badspotters sending DX as pointed out by Luigi IK5ZUK.
1257 4. Added some extra logging for swearing so that we can see what lines used
1258 which swear words. Hopefully this will allow sysops to refine their swearing
1259 filters more easily.
1260 06Jan06=======================================================================
1261 1. Fix problem with rcmd <call> sh/fdx
1262 27Dec05=======================================================================
1263 1. put some more flesh on the SQL stuff (which may turn out to be a bit of a
1264 red herring as it doesn't appear to be significantly faster (for spots) than
1266 21Dec05=======================================================================
1267 1. Add start of optional SQL working.
1268 2. Fix BadWords so that the simple word check splits words on word boundaries.
1269 13Dec05=======================================================================
1270 1. upissue version no to 1.52
1271 07Nov05=======================================================================
1272 1. Fix warnings on filtering spots where the filter was looking at US states
1273 and there is no US state in the spot.
1274 2. Fix the dupes caused by having a prefix in the last characters of the
1276 01Nov05=======================================================================
1277 1. add log2csv.pl for printing out logfiles
1278 25Oct05=======================================================================
1279 1. Incorporated the cty.dat from Jim dated today (25Oct05).
1280 08Oct05=======================================================================
1281 1. Reject PC11s with blank spot callsigns
1282 01Sep05=======================================================================
1283 1. Change the logic of propagating WWV broadcasts. Now all non-input filtered
1284 PC23s will be sent on. Previously only the first successful new WWV was
1286 2. fix the problem with by_dxcc and origin_dxcc not working on WWV.
1287 29Aug05=======================================================================
1288 1. try something else to resolve/prevent more of these spot dupes. It appears
1289 that there is software out there chopping off variable amounts from the ends
1290 of comment fields. This makes the task of detecting dupes that much harder.
1291 10Aug05=======================================================================
1292 1. trim dx spot duplicate length after normalisation
1293 2. Do the same for announces
1294 08Jul05=======================================================================
1295 1. new CTY.DAT encorporated
1296 27May05=======================================================================
1297 1. change copyright in dbg message at startup.
1298 25May05=======================================================================
1299 1. Added a means to import a script of arbitrary commands to allow external
1300 programs to do stuff.
1301 23Mar05=======================================================================
1302 1. fix (un)set/badspotter so that it only stores non-ssid calls.
1303 2. mention action on talk and ann/full in help.
1304 22Mar05=======================================================================
1305 1. Fix ? so it works again.
1306 2. Fix Aliases for sh/c so they are correct
1307 3. Fix sh/connect for AGW ports and other niffnaffs.
1308 22Mar05=======================================================================
1309 1. fixed sh/c/node sh/c/a and sh/newc/n.
1310 21Mar05=======================================================================
1311 1. log AGW port on connection
1312 2. merge in latest (2Mar2005) cty.dat
1313 3. fix command searching so it does not pick up false positives for commands
1314 with / in them in directories that don't have that.
1315 4. Important security change.
1316 5. add missing input filter for WWV
1317 16Mar05=======================================================================
1318 1. make the correct correction to the DL entry in wpxloc.raw (left out the
1319 'N' of 'North' in the latitude).
1320 2. Severely reduce the dupes caused by some of the badly configured / written
1321 spot suckers out there.
1322 13Mar05=======================================================================
1323 1. There has been a mix up in the Aranea1 branch. I have managed to merge a
1324 change that I have been meaning to do for ages. I have now made that change
1326 27Feb05=======================================================================
1327 1. fix duping on bad spot suckers that copy the prefix that is put at the end
1328 of the comment section by AR-C nodes becoming the whole comment.
1329 26Feb05=======================================================================
1330 1. Added show/grayline command from Steve K9AN. This is also aliased to
1332 2. fix spot dupe ambiguity on spotter having an SSID (remove it).
1333 25Feb05=======================================================================
1334 1. Changed the way spot deduping is done. This is likely to make deduping much
1335 stricter. In essence a person cannot spot the same call on the same frequency
1336 more than once an hour (configurable) unless he makes a (non-duped) comment
1338 2. Added Swains Island
1339 3. Added TO4G for Glorioso
1340 19Feb05=======================================================================
1341 1. changed ssb allocation on 40m to add missing 5Khz.
1342 2. Change sh/425 to Leo, IZ5FSA's requirements.
1343 08Feb05=======================================================================
1344 1. possibly fixed the multiple condition problems on sh/dx
1346 05Feb05=======================================================================
1347 1. Fix a long standing (ie since the first bulletin was sent) bug with old
1348 mail not being deleted until a restart was done.
1349 2. As well as a duplicate check on existing bulletins, I have added a check
1350 the message is not (already) too old.
1351 3. fix problem for perl < 5.6 in Thingy.pm
1352 03Feb05=======================================================================
1353 1. Added latest Spanish translations courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1354 2. Force all languages to use pr in en in Messages, as the prompt is
1356 19Jan05=======================================================================
1357 1. More Spanish changes by Angel, EA7WA.
1358 2. add language dependant motd files. You can now have motd_{lang} and
1359 motd_nor_{lang} (eg for Spanish: motd_es and motd_nor_es) for normal and
1360 non-registered (if you use registration) users respectively. Based on an idea
1362 18Jan05=======================================================================
1363 1. Added missing Spanish translation courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1364 2. Really incorporate latest cty.dat (11Dec04) as opposed to merely thinking
1365 I had (and still add 3X0Y as well).
1366 3. fix ? all in non english language
1367 4. Alias sh/st and sh/sta back to show/station from show/startup.
1368 17Jan05=======================================================================
1369 1. Added 3Y0X to Peter Island 3Y in cty.dat.
1370 16Jan05=======================================================================
1371 1. Added the changes to Canadian Prefixes so that usdbraw.gz from Charlie
1372 K1XX's website (http://dxc.k1xx.com/download) dated after 1Jan05 will include
1373 Canadian city and province data as well the existing US data.
1374 2. Improve the apropos command to take better account of language and do
1375 a better job of only showing english stuff for commands where there really is
1376 no local language version.
1377 15Jan05=======================================================================
1378 1. knocked over a few possible ways of people annoying other people thru
1380 2. Fixed problem in DXCommandmode with an indirect call that did not work
1382 3. Add Spanish translations of new scripting commands in help, from Angel
1384 13Jan05=======================================================================
1385 1. Fixed prompting in languages other than English.
1386 2. Fixed language problem with spoof, but that simply hides a whole can of
1387 worms that I shall have to address later.
1388 3. Added make clean to src Makefile (!!!)
1389 12Jan05=======================================================================
1390 1. Add $main::bumpexisting variable which allows a new connection for a user
1391 call to disconnect an existing connection with the same call. The default for
1392 this variable is 'true' (1). This means that existing behaviour has changed.
1393 set/var $main::bumpexisting = 0 to return to original behaviour.
1394 2. Remind a user every hour (as default) that they have new messages.
1395 set/var $DXCommandmode::msgpolltime = 3*3600 to set it to 3 hours.
1396 3. Allow some substitutions in set/prompt (call, date, time and
1397 cluster call) and add dxspider just before the > as standard.
1398 4. Add $main::allowdxby variable so that sysops can switch off the
1399 'DX BY <othercall' command. It is set to 0 (ie disabled) by default. This
1400 is for sysops who don't want to bump privilege to allow it. That still works
1402 5. Fix the bug in 'dx by <call>' that causes only the first word of the
1403 comment to be recorded.
1404 6. Fix bug counting backwards over a leap year in Julian.pm which meant that
1405 sh/dxstats doesn't start at 'yesterday' anymore.
1406 7. Added set/startup and show/startup commands to allow users and sysops
1407 to create and display startup scripts. There is also an unset/startup to
1409 27Dec04=======================================================================
1410 1. add improved VE data from Charlie K1XX. You should update usdb as well.
1411 22Dec04=======================================================================
1412 1. Changed all the names of US prefixes to be prepended with their State code.
1413 thus "Alaska-KL7" becomes "AK-Alaska-KL7".
1414 21Dec04=======================================================================
1415 1. added AGW port no after an example by IW5DEZ.
1416 2. modified links command to suggestions by Charlie K1XX.
1417 3. added show/groups command to show recently used chat groups by Tommy
1419 4. fixed T8 / V6 ambiguity (at least basically).
1420 20Dec04=======================================================================
1421 1. updated create_prefix.pl to only use (supplied) wpxloc.raw and cty.dat
1422 2. Added IG9, GM/S, 4U1V and some other detail changes to make it compatible
1424 3. regenerated prefix_data.pl with updated wpxloc.raw and cty.dat 11Dec04.
1425 17Dec04=======================================================================
1426 1. add undocumented special command for VE7CC.
1427 10Dec04=======================================================================
1428 1. Included fixes sent in by David, N9KT for the new DB0SDX site.
1429 2. removed redundant "rm *bys" and "rm *cys" from Spot::init().
1430 09Dec04=======================================================================
1431 1. fix show/mydx properly this time (and test the fix!)
1432 2. fix the default in show/qrz
1433 06Dec04=======================================================================
1434 1. fix show/mydx if there is no defined spotfilter
1435 07Oct04=======================================================================
1436 1. added the ability for people to import chat from external programs.
1437 create a directory called /spider/chat_import, make sure it is writable
1438 by any applications that might dump stuff in there (chmod 1777
1439 /spider/chat_import on *nux). Put a file with a sensible name in there;
1440 the first part of the name will be the chat group to whom the message will
1441 be sent. So solar.txt.12325 = SOLAR. Announces can also be sent to local, all
1442 and sysop (ie files whose name begins with those names). Each line in the
1443 file becomes a chat line or an announce. See importwwv.pl for an example.
1444 DO NOT USE importwwv.pl, I am already using it and if you do as well, people
1445 will get duplicates which will ANNOY THEM!!! It is just an example.
1446 23Aug04=======================================================================
1447 1. add the start of an alternative routing engine (RouteDB)
1448 20Aug04=======================================================================
1449 1. Added new protocol specification to techdoc
1450 17Aug04=======================================================================
1451 1. change 'fo' alias in Aliases
1452 31Jul04=======================================================================
1453 1. add a load of .cvsignore lines to reduce the updating noise
1454 30Jul04=======================================================================
1455 1. make sure that // is not converted to / in command lines.
1456 28Jul04=======================================================================
1457 1. backported 'Investigate' from NP branch so that only pingable nodes
1459 2. added missing entries in Internet.pm for sh/contest
1460 26Jul04=======================================================================
1461 1. added extra variables to Internet.pm to allow the various internet query
1462 commands to alter the url that they use.
1463 2. Added show/425 command from Leo, IZ5FSA.
1464 05Jul04=======================================================================
1465 1. fix rspfcheck on pc27
1466 23Jun04=======================================================================
1467 1. Add zone, by_zone, itu, by_itu, state and by_state searches to sh/dx
1468 2. Update manuals for CVS and new commands
1469 22Jun04=======================================================================
1470 1. Add the show/mydx command which *may* filter your spots using your
1472 17Jun04=======================================================================
1473 1. alter processing of PC17 to see if they get distributed more than now.
1474 14Jun04=======================================================================
1475 1. fix previous fix of sh/dx
1476 09Jan04=======================================================================
1477 1. removed PC90 which was breaking various filtering things.
1478 2. added realtime spot formats to sh/dx (at least in basic form), this is
1479 activated by using either of the keywords 'real' of 'rt' on the command
1480 line. Also added sh/fdx as an alias.
1481 01Jan04=======================================================================
1482 1. move position of USDB init to get rid of an obscure bug pointed out by
1484 2. Remove redundant documentation.
1485 31Dec03=======================================================================
1486 1. alter remote database handling to 'new standard'.
1487 30Dec03=======================================================================
1488 1. updated website to make it clear(er) that it all works under Windows (like
1489 wot Charlie said...).
1490 2. made the changes to the German Messages that Thomas DL3SBB sent me a
1492 3. made 'dx by' require at least privilege 1.
1493 29Dec03=======================================================================
1494 1. updated dxoldtonew.pl so that it takes an AK1A DX.DAT file (argument on
1495 command line or a default of /spider/data/DX.DAT and outputs the standard
1496 DXSpider format spot files. Please be warned that if any of these files
1497 already exist, the data will be appended onto the end of the file. Please
1498 make sure you have backups or at least be aware that this may give strange
1499 results which may be 'out of order'.
1500 24May03=======================================================================
1501 1. Added more french translations from Robert (HB9BZA) and we now have some
1502 french help as well (also from Robert). A splendid effort. Thank you.
1503 16May03=======================================================================
1504 1. Correct Windows section of the Addendum file! (g0vgs)
1505 06May03=======================================================================
1506 1. Add Portuguese language courtesy of David CT1DRB (set/lang pt)
1507 2. Add French language courtesy of Robert HB9BZA (set/lang fr)
1508 02Apr03=======================================================================
1509 1. Fix some minor problems with the manuals (g0vgs)
1510 01Apr03=======================================================================
1511 1. Update filtering primer, changes by N3RD (g0vgs)
1512 28Mar03=======================================================================
1513 1. Added an excellent document on filtering to the manuals from Jim, W3BG
1514 2. started to remove old documents (g0vgs)
1515 27Mar03=======================================================================
1516 1. play around with sh/reg, sh/iso, sh/node and sh/lock to make them work
1517 slightly better with the new user format.
1518 2. update manuals (g0vgs)
1519 26Mar03=======================================================================
1520 1. add some ak1a compatibility changes to chat
1521 2. added help text for chat, join, leave and sh/chat.
1522 18Mar03=======================================================================
1523 1. minor corrections to manuals (g0vgs)
1524 17Mar03=======================================================================
1525 1. changed the regex determining what is a callsign to be more comprehensive.
1526 I would suggest re-running create_qsl.pl and then restarting.
1527 2. Fix chat so that output appears to users again and PC sentence conforms
1528 to standard. Add kludge to remove rewritten chats if I see them.
1529 3. Only send chat PCs to spider or AK1A boxes
1530 12Mar03=======================================================================
1531 1. added HC and QRZ.com to possible QSL locations, if you want to pick up
1532 historical info (ie start again), run create_qsl.pl after update and restart
1533 the node (which you will need to do anyway).
1534 2. changed the dbcreate command so that you can say:
1535 dbcreate dxqsl cmd show/dxqsl
1536 which will allow local and remote users to execute commands as though they
1537 are Databases. You can also include these databases in chains. What you do
1538 with this, is ofcourse a moot question.
1539 3. Update manuals (g0vgs)
1540 11Mar03=======================================================================
1541 1. Changed the name of show/qsl to show/dxqsl.
1542 2. Alter Commands_en.hlp to match new name and issue manual updates (g0vgs)
1543 10Mar03=======================================================================
1544 1. added show/qsl command. This command basically takes the normal output of
1545 sh/dx qsl and stores it in a database. In order to enable this command you
1546 will require the Storable module to be loaded (you will already have done
1547 this with a bit of luck for the new DXUser interface). The suggested
1548 procedure is (after the update) to run /spider/perl/create_qsl.pl (this may
1549 take a long time), then immediately it finishes, restart the node. The node
1550 will then keep the database up to date automatically. If you are not
1551 interested in historical data then you can leave this step out.
1552 2. added show/contest command from Tommy SM3OSM via Rene OZ1LQH.
1553 08Mar03=======================================================================
1554 1. Added chat, join, leave commands to allow general purpose conferencing
1555 on arbitrary subjects. [Translators: added e34,e35,join,leave]. There is
1556 currently no help. There is also sh/chat.
1557 28Feb03=======================================================================
1558 1. Charlie K1XX fixed the sh/iso, sh/reg and sh/node commands
1559 25Feb03=======================================================================
1560 1. backported switch processing for PC sentences
1561 24Feb03=======================================================================
1562 1. add the 'run' command and the 'privilege' command to allow sysops to
1563 create scripts for people.
1564 2. fix show/user so that it doesn't moan about uninitialised variables
1565 23Feb03=======================================================================
1566 1. Added show/wm7d command (a US only callbook server) [by K1XX].
1567 2. Added a prototype show/db0sdx command (w.i.p).
1568 3. Added set/dxcq and set/dxitu zone commands [Translators: I have added
1569 dxcqu, dxcqs, dxitus and dxituu to Messages].
1570 4. Add new Commands to manuals (g0vgs)
1571 5. make sure that none of the above set/dx... commands are defaulted on
1572 22Feb03=======================================================================
1573 1. changed qrz.com address
1574 2. added Charlie's [K1XX] new wpxloc.raw data stuff to get WA1, KC3 type
1575 callsigns to work better.
1576 3. added in set/usstate command which prints any US state information
1577 available on both the spotted (LHS of time) and spotter (RHS of time).
1578 [Translators: I have added usstates and usstateu to Messages].
1579 4. Merged in the new (faster) DXUser.pm.
1581 [NOTE] this version will require Storable to be installed. On the
1582 other hand the code may work without, in a compatible way. This bit hasn't
1583 been very well tested (the 'no Storable' condition that is).
1585 [*** NOTE ***] make sure that you do an 'export_user' BEFORE restarting
1586 you node. (Yes I know this is like a shrinkwrap licence, but I can't
1589 It will take several minutes for the node to restart when it does the
1590 conversion from .v2 to .v3 user file. Please go and have a good strong cup
1591 of tea whilst this is happening.
1593 If it fails then you will need to edit your latest user_asc file on (or about)
1594 line 25 it says: $ref = decode($f[1]); you will need to change that to
1595 $ref = asc_decode($f[1]); and then do: perl user_asc
1597 DO MAKE SURE THAT you include subdirectories in your CVS update
1599 21Feb03=======================================================================
1600 1. moved the export of the users file to Wednesday night (GMT) to avoid
1601 possible crashes and/or delays during a contest weekend.
1602 14Feb03=======================================================================
1603 1. some major changes to the structure of the manual documentation. To bring
1604 the manuals into line, they now have the language tag (like
1605 installation_en.html). Hopefully someone will translate the manuals
1606 eventually :-) I have left the old files in CVS for now to allow
1607 everyone to change any symlinks etc to the new filenames. I will remove the
1608 old files shortly, please update your links! (g0vgs)
1609 2. docs makefile updated and commands2sgml.pl added from M0AZM. This script
1610 inserts the helpfiles automagically from Commands_en.hlp into the relevant
1612 3. Commands_en.hlp adjusted slightly to ensure at least one space before
1613 examples for the purposes of the above script. (g0vgs)
1614 4. Amend index.html to the right document names. (g0vgs)
1615 09Feb03=======================================================================
1616 1. Correct some typos in the manuals and update perl modules etc. Also
1617 amend some help files to show correct syntax, around the 'clear' commands
1618 swapping [input] and <callsign> in each case, translators please take note.
1619 Thanks to Dave N3RD for info. (g0vgs)
1620 2. update the addendum for latest build and include information on additional
1621 modules required. (g0vgs)
1622 20Jan03=======================================================================
1623 1. changed sh/c so that, by default, it only shows the caller's country nodes
1624 sh/c all will show the old style full list. "sh/c sk gb" will show the config
1625 of all the GB and SK nodes.
1626 2. changed sh/stat and sh/route for nodes
1627 19Jan03=======================================================================
1628 1. I have made a fundemental change to the way PC19s are dealt with as a
1629 result of the discussions on the mailing list. From now on, only nodes that
1630 issue PC16s will have PC19s propagated. If they *ever* issue a PC16 then from
1631 then on they are considered as being 'connected' and thus routable. No PC16
1632 and you have no route. This should stop all passive links being routed. For
1633 the few cases where you know that that is a very small node and it rarely has
1634 users, then you can do a set/routepc19 <node> to enable PC19 propagation. In
1635 the even more rare case of you wanting to prevent PC19s being routed thru
1636 your node, you can use unset/routepc19. THIS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ROUTE
1637 FILTERING!!!!! [translators: I have added wpc16s, wpc16u, wpc19s, wpc19u]
1639 BTW the first time you connect again you will notice a separate PC19 go out
1640 for each 'new' PC16 that the node sees. This is normal and will go away the
1641 second time the system needs to issue a PC19.
1642 2. Alter the export_user command to remove users that have no useful info
1643 and have not been seen for more than (default) 1 year.
1644 3. fix the problem of users on more than one node not being propagated
1645 4. remove spaces and all non-US ascii characters from PC41 for the dup check.
1646 5. put in check to see if the parent of a newly allowed PC19 is still there
1647 (this needs further investigation).
1648 17Jan03=======================================================================
1649 1. Fix problem with lines being left in the main input queue for a
1650 disconnected/ing node.
1651 14Jan03=======================================================================
1652 1. Tidy up AUTOLOAD functions
1653 2. Make sure that empty PC16s are not sent on startup to a node.
1654 12Jan03=======================================================================
1655 1. add Czech language courtesy of Milan OK1XH
1656 06Jan03=======================================================================
1657 1. add the latest changes to the spider-web java interface from Rene, OZ1LQH.
1658 Please note that there is a change to the spider.cgi file this time so that
1659 the client show 'Connected to Node_Call' instead of the hostname. You will
1660 need to update your cgi file when you update the changes. Please make sure
1661 that you back up your old files first! (g0vgs)
1662 2. yet more changes to the java client from Rene :-) Also added a makefile
1663 and a Changes file for the client in the spider-web directory.
1664 05Jan03=======================================================================
1665 1. fix some irritating messages caused by protocol loops in sh/c
1667 3. move GN from GJ to GI
1668 31Dec02=======================================================================
1669 1. Update files in the java client with fixes and additions from Rene, OZ1LQH
1670 05Dec02=======================================================================
1671 1. Fix SSID issues with AGWMsg.
1672 2. updated show/hftable, vhftable, hfstats, vhfstats and dxstats after K1XX
1673 sent in some sample code indicated new functionality he requires. Translators
1674 please note that the stat* messages have been changed and e33 added. I have
1675 also added quite a bit of extra examples and things to the relevant HELP
1676 texts. It is now possible to search from any date for up to 365 days of data.
1677 You can get the information by prefix or by callsign or for ALL spots.
1678 04Dec02=======================================================================
1679 1. updated sh/log to allow searching for more arbitrary strings such as IP
1681 08Nov02=======================================================================
1682 1. update Keps.pm to reflect which satellites now come round in the weekly
1683 updates. I suggest that you copy this file to /spider/local and do a load/kep
1684 and you should lose all the 'old' satellites (eg MIR).
1685 08Nov02=======================================================================
1686 1. made some small mods to grepdbg and spot2csv.pl
1687 2. fix a possible DOS in dx command
1688 07Nov02=======================================================================
1689 1. allow three digit longitudes
1690 2. make a small change to see if messages now stay in place.
1691 3. make keep actually stick over a reboot and take it fully into account for
1692 deletions (translators: I added m18).
1693 4. try not to delete new messages (even if this is an update that reads 'old'
1694 messages with missing fields).
1695 29Oct02=======================================================================
1696 1. make sh/log et al a bit more efficient.
1697 2. fix dupe message in dx.
1698 3. update cty.dat to the latest, add k8T, K8O to KH8 and TX5BTY to FO/A
1699 4. clear cache on reload of prefixes
1700 25Oct02=======================================================================
1701 1. remove the dupefile automatically if it becomes corrupted
1702 2. instrument the startup slightly more
1703 21Oct02=======================================================================
1705 2. make the default pinginterval and obscount variable (set/var
1706 $DXProt::pingint and $DXProt::obscount)
1707 20Oct02=======================================================================
1708 1. remove dupe check on local sysop announces
1709 2. fix format errors on sh/muf for 5.8.0
1710 3. add new version of the administration manual that includes WinCVS with
1711 thanks to K1XX (g0vgs).
1712 17Oct02=======================================================================
1713 1. added new Spanish files for help and Messages from Angel, EA7WA.
1714 16Oct02=======================================================================
1715 1. decrease the default max length of PC16/19 to around 180 characters to be
1716 slightly friendlier to ARC, which seems to have a difficulty reconstructing
1717 lines from multiple packets. Also make the value settable via set/var.
1718 2. strip off blank spaces from the ends of lines of command output.
1719 15Oct02=======================================================================
1720 1. made some detail changes to the raw USDB data and the routines that
1721 generate and operate on them. There were some bugs involving a few 'missing'
1722 callsigns which been fixed. Also there were some, for our purposes, invalid
1723 callsigns in the database which have been removed (down to about 820,000
1724 entries now). You should really update your database.
1726 The latest code now (conditionally; ie if you have it loaded it will use it)
1727 support Compress::Zlib on both *nux and Windows. The suggested procedure
1730 1. Download the corrected database from
1731 http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz to somewhere like /tmp.
1733 3. Restart (on linux, just stop the node and *don't* restart on Windows).
1734 4. remove /spider/data/usdb.v1
1736 6. (perl) create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw.gz (or wherever you put it)
1737 6a. If you don't have Compress::Zlib loaded then you will need to gunzip
1738 it manually and do: create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (not Windows :-)
1739 7. on linux, in a console window do: load/usdb, on windows: restart the node.
1741 2. Added set/usdb command to add adding or changing of a callsign in the USDB
1742 3. Stop dupe spots from the same spotter (with or without comment corruption)
1743 14Oct02=======================================================================
1744 1. added show/usdb command as a simple, direct interface to the information
1745 available in the USDB stuff.
1746 13Oct02=======================================================================
1747 1. A large change has occurred. There is now some (optional) US state recog-
1748 nition. This is in its early stages but appears to work for me. You will need
1751 1. download the database at http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz
1752 2. save it somewhere (/tmp, anywhere).
1753 3. Decompress it using your favorite program (gunzip / winzip) [call it
1754 usdbraw if winzip]{BE WARNED, some browsers may decompress it on the
1755 fly for you, you can tell; if it is 5Mb it is compressed - 16Mb not}.
1756 4. remove any /spider/data/user.v1 files lying around (at least for this
1759 6. perl create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (ie the UNCOMPRESSED file)
1760 7. Wait, I suggest some cups of tea are in order.
1763 You don't need Compress::Zlib anymore, I assumed it was universal.
1765 You will be able do this while the node is running somewhen. There is a
1766 planned method of keeping the US DB up to date with smaller (ie < 15Mb) patch
1767 files once a week but you will have to wait a bit for the code to bed down
1768 first. You can filter on routes, spots and announces using 'call_state' or
1769 'by_state' and a comma separated list of state codes. The HELP has been
1770 updated (which may help...).
1772 Once you have run the create_usdb.pl you will need to restart.
1774 If you don't need this, then don't run create_usdb.pl it will simply be
1775 a waste of time. The run-time version is 30Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
1776 in it. This does not replace or supplant sh/qrz (sorry Charlie [who put me
1779 2. There are a number of other niff-naff changes which I hope will improve
1780 rather than hinder your user experience (including check forward as well as
1781 back for those speedy clocked dupes mentioned below).
1782 12Oct02=======================================================================
1783 1. attempt to improve the "check back for 5 minutes to see if this spot is
1784 the same as a previous one but for the time spotted" dupe check.
1785 2. improve the sh/vhftable and sh/hftable commands to allow you to enquire
1786 by dxcc country (using the relevant prefixes or dxcc country numbers).
1787 [note to translators, I have changed the help text and Messages tags for
1789 07Oct02=======================================================================
1790 1. fix problem with (invalid) callsigns starting with '0' (zero) eg 0f6ira.
1791 03Oct02=======================================================================
1792 1. only sysop (priv=5+) can now send to distro SYSOP, ordinary users will have
1793 their message routed to the $main::myalias callsign as a private message.
1794 29Sep02=======================================================================
1795 1. Added LRU caching to DXUsers and Prefix.
1796 2. make Timer::handler only search its chain once a second seeing as that
1797 is the minimum granularity available.
1798 3. add some separation between cfg file making, data generation and mrtg
1799 running. See /spider/cmd/mrtg.pl for some instructions...
1800 4. Added data in and out to the MRTG stats, you need to do an indexmaker
1801 to get them onto the index page, I have also added some colour to the
1802 legend to make what is being displayed a bit more obvious.
1804 See http://gb7djk.dxcluster.org/mrtg/stats.html for an example of the
1807 28Sep02=======================================================================
1808 1. Put some transparent caching into Prefix.pm to see if this has a
1810 2. Fix doing a new log open for every log file write.
1811 26Sep02=======================================================================
1812 1. added WWV and WCY to the Mrtg stats. Don't forget to do an indexmaker!
1813 25Sep02=======================================================================
1814 1. added mrtg stuff to the system as a template. In order to use this you
1815 must install mrtg onto your system and copy all the mrtg files (or at least
1816 all the images) to new directory /spider/html/mrtg. The system generates the
1817 config file for you as part of its workings. To get it to update add a line
1818 to your spider crontab like:
1820 00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * run_cmd('mrtg all')
1822 You will also need to do an indexmaker once in the html directory. I put the
1823 index page into /spider/html/mrtg/stats.html YMMV. I do:
1825 indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for
1826 GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg
1828 But all on one line.
1829 2. I have made a technical change to the way ax25 connects outward on unix
1830 boxes are done. I currently have no way of testing this. I think it still
1832 22Sep02=======================================================================
1833 1. Add changes to the installation manual for Windows users from K1XX
1834 21Sep02=======================================================================
1835 1. make some detail changes for connects out in Msg.pm
1836 17Sep02=======================================================================
1837 1. Added shu command for Charlie's (K1XX) benefit (together with the rest of
1838 our butterfingered sysops) who miss the '/' out of sh/u frequently enough
1839 to curse. 'shu' simply types out a message saying 'type SHUT' to shutdown the
1840 node. Added 'shu' to /spider/perl/Messages. No need to restart, just
1841 load/mess and load/alias after doing a CVS.
1842 21Aug02=======================================================================
1843 1. added 'warc' and 'contesthf' to the regions in bands.pl (K1XX).
1844 20Aug02=======================================================================
1845 1. fix lines containing just the character '0' in messages (and console.pl)
1847 2. remove all newline characters from AGW data, thus treating it like a
1848 'normal' ax25 connection where the 'newline' convention is just carriage
1850 06Aug02=======================================================================
1851 1. added 5.5Mhz band as '60m'.
1852 29Jul02=======================================================================
1853 1. Changed max R value in wcy to 500 from 300.
1854 2. Got rid of warnings on startup using 5.8.0
1855 28Jul02=======================================================================
1856 1. stick the invalid key deletes in an eval loop in export_user
1857 18Jul02=======================================================================
1858 1. Make additions and changes to manuals. (g0vgs)
1859 16Jul02=======================================================================
1860 1. Add changes to the spider-web java web client. Thanks to Rene, OZ1LQH. It
1861 should now be easier to install and run for all systems. (g0vgs)
1862 11Jul02=======================================================================
1863 1. NP work has now started in ernest ([ed]who he?). You will need to download
1864 Digest::SHA1 and any dependant packages to run this release. HOWEVER tempted
1865 you are, please don't set/newprotocol on any nodes. It won't work.
1866 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
1867 2. Make the cluster node registered on from startup (from Mark HB9DBM).
1868 3. Make the 'export_users' process *MUCH* more robust. It should now accept
1869 funny characters and not rely on an absolutely 'perfect' user file to work.
1870 Errors are displayed (and logged if done from the cluster) and then ignored.
1871 Invalid callsigns are removed.
1872 09Jul02=======================================================================
1873 1. make the is_qra more accurate (from Mark HB9DBM).
1874 04Jul02=======================================================================
1875 1. added another fix to Prefix.pm so that it resolves Japan callsigns again
1876 also you can 'set/debug prefix' to see what it is trying to do.
1877 03Jul02=======================================================================
1878 1. Added the DEMONSTRATE command which allows a sysop to demonstrate a
1879 command to a user (from a request by Charlie K1XX).
1880 2. added message e31 (xxxx is not a user)
1881 02Jul02=======================================================================
1882 1. Fixed the problem with badspotter or badnode being set to baddx if either
1883 of the data files are missing.
1884 25Jun02=======================================================================
1885 1. as predicted there was an error in the Prefix routine, I have improved it.
1886 24Jun02=======================================================================
1887 1. make set/badspotter non SSID sensitive. Set/badnode is left to be SSID
1889 2. added 3XA(=3X) and K1B(=KH1) also changed the logic of sh/prefix. This
1890 may break things, please test it.
1891 19Jun02=======================================================================
1892 1. make set/badspotter and set/badnode apply to announces and talks as well
1894 12Jun02=======================================================================
1895 1. fixed (un)set/wwv and (un)set/wcy so they don't issue spurious messages.
1896 Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
1897 07Jun02=======================================================================
1898 1. fix messages in DXDb.pm to point to the correct ones. Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
1899 2. add missing wcys and wcyu messages to Messages. Thanks Rene (again)
1900 3. upissue version number to 1.50 (finally)
1901 16Apr02=======================================================================
1902 1. allow the rest of PC19 to continue if it contains a reference to a locally
1903 connected node. Thank you Tommy SM3OSM.
1904 19Mar02=======================================================================
1905 1. fix problems with ephemeral dup checking on PC16,17,19,21
1906 2. perturb the problem with national character sets.
1907 15Mar02=======================================================================
1908 1. add help for 'accept' and 'reject'. (g0vgs)
1909 2. adjustments to the manuals (g0vgs)
1910 3. make changes to reflect the correct output of sh/sun and sh/moon based
1911 on information from Steve, K9AN. (g0vgs)
1912 23Feb02=======================================================================
1913 1. remove old satellites from keps.
1914 2. Add information on setting up the ax25 utils to the installation manual
1916 19Feb02=======================================================================
1917 1. move the PC11 dup check after the input filter
1918 06Feb02=======================================================================
1919 1. changes to manuals to (hopefully) improve documentation and alter my email
1921 02Feb02=======================================================================
1922 1. changed sh/qrz to the latest incarnation of the command at qrz.com.
1923 29Jan02=======================================================================
1924 1. add VP8GEO to South Georgia
1925 27Jan02=======================================================================
1926 1. make save work in cron context
1927 2. try to get the C client to handle closes on its standard input better
1928 3. put some validation in cluster.pl to check that people have set it up
1930 4. fix the long callsign checking
1931 22Jan02=======================================================================
1932 1. limit spot dupe checking to first 12 characters
1933 13Jan02=======================================================================
1934 1. changed the backstop termination alarm routing in the C client so that
1935 it flushes the input and output buffer and then commits suicide.
1936 12Jan02=======================================================================
1937 1. put setsockopts into eval block to allow some of them to fail
1938 11Jan02=======================================================================
1939 1. Make M$ TCP connx blocking again, sigh...
1940 2. backed out ALL the M$ speedup and make nicer changes :-(
1941 3. cope with data coming in during the disconnection process. Don't worry
1942 Earth people, this will take no longer than 15 of your Earth seconds...
1943 10Jan02=======================================================================
1944 1. set SO_LINGER = 0 to try to prevent the system sending data on a closing
1945 socket. This MAY help some of the hanging problems (but I am now beginning
1947 2. do the same on the C client (which means DON'T FORGET to make it).
1948 3. set no nagling on the output from the node.
1949 4. set KEEPALIVE on TCP connections for both the node and C Client (you will
1950 have to make the C client again) and you will need to restart.
1951 5. It appears that it IS possible to set non blocking on M$ you just need to
1953 6. Fix problem with load/cmd_cache core dumping the system
1954 08Jan02=======================================================================
1955 1. altered sh/qrz to point to the new server
1956 2. alter the character set handling a bit to make it better for spanish
1957 06Jan02=======================================================================
1958 1. fix leading space removal from messages input from the keyboard
1959 2. make some mods to allow perl 5.7.2 to run
1960 3. create $DXProt::eph_restime to allow variable slugging of ephemeral dups
1961 4. create $DXProt::eph_info_restime to allow a long dupe time for these
1962 5. create $DXProt::eph_pc34 to allow a short anti dupe slug for rcmd loops
1963 6. Add a new sysop cmd 'save' which will save the output of any command (or
1964 list of commands in "<cmd>") to a file.
1965 7. Add a new command "echo" which echos its argument to the screen (useful
1966 for titling in the save command above.
1967 8. Increase interval between logins causing for/opernam to 60 days (from 30)
1968 + a random factor between 0 and 9.
1969 9. Added Italian translation of Messages from Luca IT9ROT (thank you
1971 10. Added the /<cmd> feature (as in talk) to execute a cmd whilst typing a
1972 message, then enhanced it so that if you do //sh/dx (for instance) it will
1973 put the result into the message (as well as show it to you).
1974 11. Added the // feature to talk as well.
1975 02Jan02=======================================================================
1976 1. updated the copyright dates
1977 2. modernised and extended the Windows instructions a bit.
1978 3. added a TODO file which is the list of things that I need to do. Please
1979 badger me to put YOUR enhancement on this list. It will then get done.
1980 31Dec01=======================================================================
1981 1. Make a couple of changes to the Installation Manual and add a FAQ on msg
1983 2. Fix unset/register so it works (g0vgs)
1984 30Dec01=======================================================================
1985 1. make PC21 coming from the channel's node call then treat it as a PC39 and
1987 2. Send the client a 'Z' command (shutdown) to see if this has any effect on
1989 26Dec01=======================================================================
1990 1. make some detail changes to help texts
1991 2. Added 'all' to the Band's region table to allow 'acc/spot on all/cw'
1992 23Dec01=======================================================================
1993 1. allow sh/dx on 1000/4000 (or 1000-4000).
1994 2. merge sh/dx and sh/dxcc commands (Alias sh/dxcc to sh/dx dxcc). You can
1995 now do things like 'sh/dxcc oq2 by w dxcc'.
1996 20Dec01=======================================================================
1997 1. Fix 'not' in filtering
1998 2. alter default max spots to 100 and the no of WWV to 5
1999 17Dec01=======================================================================
2000 1. added new satellite stuff from Steve K9AN. Fixed upper/lower problem
2002 2. enhanced load/keps to accept a message no. This will create a new keps
2003 file from a msg (hopefully containing 2 Line Nasa keps) and then load - all
2004 in one step. Added load/keps to the help files
2005 3. Updated spanish Messages
2006 4. Improve wcy command from Stephan DK8LV's input
2007 5. Added set/prompt (and unset/prompt) command so that Stephan can fool some
2008 external programs into thinking it is talking to clx.
2009 15Dec01=======================================================================
2010 1. added superfluous spaces back into PC73 for the benefit of clx
2011 14Dec01=======================================================================
2012 1. make Spanish in set/lang & Messages 'es' instead of 'sp'
2013 2. added prototype WCY and WWV commands (for qualified users only)
2014 3. Added Commands_es.hlp contributed by Angel EA7WA
2015 12Dec01=======================================================================
2016 1. added Commands_de.hlp contributed (in record time) by Stephan DK8LV.
2017 2. fixed help command so it uses it!
2018 11Dec01=======================================================================
2019 1. make PC17 generation more unconditional
2020 08Dec01=======================================================================
2021 1. added unset/hops command
2022 02Dec01=======================================================================
2023 1. Fix spurious 'new message for you' messages if things are deleted but
2025 2. stop remote passive nodes (those with version numbers of 0000) from
2026 poluting the nodes table. Maybe this will make things slightly more stable.
2027 3. Take off rspf checks on announces and spots and allow the dupe filters
2029 4. Move the dupe checking AFTER the input filtering for announces and spots.
2030 5. Changed the checking of PC19/21 that it doesn't alter the wrong node
2031 6. Alter the storage of messages so that illegal characters are stored as '.'
2032 in an attempt to stop such messages from hanging.
2033 26Nov01=======================================================================
2034 1. Make changes to the installation manual to show making the client before
2035 actually trying to use it! Thanks to oz1lqh. Also add a line for SuSE
2037 22Nov01=======================================================================
2038 1. finally fix DELETE = ^H = Backspace in console.pl
2039 21Nov01=======================================================================
2040 1. altered the PC16/17 generation slightly to see whether this cures Roland's
2042 19Nov01=======================================================================
2043 1. added Ducie Island to prefixes
2044 17Nov01=======================================================================
2045 1. updated the Java Web Interface from Ian, m0azm to allow passwords. If
2046 a user with no password enters anything, including null, it is happily
2047 accepted and ignored.
2048 2. added the German language to the Messages file from Stephan, dk8lv
2049 14Nov01=======================================================================
2050 1. make the number of characters of the dx comment dependant on the type of
2051 connection. This should mean that 'legacy' user programs can cope.
2052 2. move the handling of unprintable characters out of IntMsg
2053 07Nov01=======================================================================
2054 1. fix is_pctext so that it actually catches corrupt spots and announces.
2055 2. fix console.pl so that you can type in '0' again
2056 3. Fix problem with reply disappearing up its own bottom.
2057 4. Added Steve's latest sh/moon stuff
2058 06Nov01=======================================================================
2059 1. fix read so that sysop reading doesn't increment the read counter for
2060 private mail not addressed to them.
2061 2. fix console.pl to show blank lines more reliably.
2062 3. fix msgs so that 2 R: lines are only stored on initial entry (not just
2064 04Nov01=======================================================================
2065 1. Allow the user to equal the node in RSPF checks (this allows spots and
2066 stuff with the origin and spotter to be the same (although it is STRONGLY
2067 recommended that they are NOT!!! [hint hint]).
2068 2. make the send command rather more sensitive to what is allowed. Basically
2069 it will only allow TO addresses that are bull addresses (if not private) or
2070 vaild callsigns (if private). Bull addresses are the ones in
2071 /spider/msg/forward.pl with a 'T' flag on them. If there is no forward
2072 file it will only allow 'ALL' and 'DX' as valid Bull TO addresses. You may
2073 use commas as callsign separators if you like.
2074 02Nov01=======================================================================
2075 1. fixed some Aliasing problems, but this whole area will have to be addressed
2076 more comprehensively.
2077 2. Changed talk logging so that it hopefully is more consistant and maybe even
2079 3. Altered the mechanism of the personal emailing so that it uses lower level
2080 components and should be therefore available on M$ platforms. You will need
2081 to install a version of libnet (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then install Net::SMTP).
2082 I believe all 5.6.x perls have this built in (ie M$ should have this). If you
2083 are on M$ or you want to use an MTA via SMTP in linux then you need to declare
2084 the dns name of the MTA by: set/var $DXMsg::email_server = 'post.fred.net'
2085 (or whatever the MTA is called). You can also use local programs other than
2086 sendmail by: set/var $DXMsg::email_prog = '/usr/bin/postfix ..' or whatever.
2087 Finally you can alter the 'from' address using: set/var $DXMsg::email_from
2088 = 'FBloggs@msn.com' (\@ if you use " and ") - bewarned that you may be
2089 prevented from using just any old address. You can place these commands in
2090 /spider/scripts/startup for permanent use.
2091 01Nov01=======================================================================
2092 1. added information on registration, login scripts and passwords to the
2093 26Oct01=======================================================================
2094 1. If $main::reqreg = 1 then set/register will allow 'registered' users
2095 full access, if $main::reqreg = 2 then registered users will be 'read-only'
2096 (ie the opposite). If $main::reqreg = 0 then registration and its effects
2098 25Oct01=======================================================================
2099 1. added unset/password command to allow sysops (only) to completely delete
2100 and remove a user's password.
2101 2. make 'read' increment the 'no of times read' for all messages.
2102 3. give a read receipt for everybody that reads a message so marked.
2103 4. enhance set/email so that if you set email address(es) with this command
2104 it will send any messages to your callsign as they come in. unset/email
2105 will disable forwarding.
2106 24Oct01=======================================================================
2107 1. added (un)set/register, show/registered commands which when a 'set/var
2108 $main::reqreg = 1' is done in the startup script will require users to
2109 be 'registered' in order for them to have 'write' access to the node. Non-
2110 registered users will only be allowed to TALK or SEND PRIVATE to the cluster
2112 2. Added password interrogation to the ExtMsg connections. If a user comes
2113 in via telnet and this is being done with the internal listener and a pass-
2114 word has been set for that user - he will be asked for it. You can force
2115 a password interrogation (for ALL users) with a 'set/var $main::passwdreq = 1'
2116 in the node's startup script. It is anticipated that if you are using
2117 registration you will also issue passwords to those registered users.
2118 3. set/password has been changed so that users already with passwords can
2120 4. A non-registered user will get the /spider/data/motd_nor file instead of
2122 5. made the BadWord regexes slightly less aggressive WARNING this may let
2123 some constructions thru, but hopefully will also allow more legitimate
2124 foreign (mainly) things thru as well.
2125 19Oct01=======================================================================
2126 1. Allow DELETE (0x7f) for backspace in console.pl
2127 2. redo prefix table using latest cty.dat
2128 14Oct01=======================================================================
2129 1. Add the shortform SH/ST like display to sh/user <call> to make it more
2130 AK1A compatible (G0RDI+G4PDQ pace).
2131 12Oct01=======================================================================
2132 1. make del nnn delete messages again (fix system Aliases file)
2133 2. substr the subject so that the dup works for stuff coming back via AK1A
2134 09Oct01=======================================================================
2135 1. change Aliases to allow shutdown as a command again. If you have changed
2136 /spider/cmd/Aliases and you update from CVS you may find it better to remove
2137 this file and then do another 'cvs update'. Otherwise you may get conflicts
2138 and the Aliase file will not load properly. The cvs update will recreate
2139 the (now) missing file.
2140 2. Remove the 'please don't use XXXX on here' messages to prevent people
2141 from exploring the 'bad words space'. Three bad words will still disconnect
2143 3. Sending dx spots/announces with bad words will succeed - but only back to
2144 the sender. These two mods are designed to annoy the perpitrators of the
2145 sort of filth as much as possible whilst not inconveniencing 'normal' users.
2146 4. Add expunge feature to kill. Deleting messages now marks a msg for
2147 deletion two days hence. To have the old behaviour, do a 'kill exp' or use
2148 the standard alias "expunge". This will cause the message to be deleted at
2149 the next queue message cycle.
2150 5. Put in prototype echo handling for direct connections using ExtMsg and
2152 6. fix msgs to g1tlh-2 (as opposed to g1tlh)
2153 04Oct01=======================================================================
2154 1. allow a residence time of (default) 2 days before actually deleting a msg.
2155 2. reduce the number R: lines on a bull from a bbs to 2 (the origin and the
2157 3. ignore deleted messages for queuing purposes
2158 4. store deleted status across restarts!
2159 5. make callsign checking more rigorous
2160 6. dup check PC49 (kill full)
2161 7. improved the regex matching of badwords (more efficient, better coverage)
2162 8. added default badword and badw_regex tables (as .issue files) which will
2163 activate unless there is one there already. It will NOT overwrite an existing
2164 file - so if you change it your changes will remain intact.
2165 03Oct01=======================================================================
2166 1. don't allow @WWW to become a 'TO' field...
2167 2. handle @gb7tlh.#35.eu type addresses as well
2168 02Oct01=======================================================================
2169 1. fixed the 'ever lengthening msg' syndrome and probably made the whole
2170 thing more reliable at the same time.
2171 2. do some restructuring of the msg system and upissue the version no.
2172 3. fix @xxxx syntax for bbs input
2173 01Oct01=======================================================================
2174 1. made login info not the default
2175 2. change the looping protoection for PC16/17/19/21 and also be more rigorous
2176 in who we accept which PC16/17/21's from.
2177 3. fix MAJOR disconnect bug introduced accidentally in the NP work.
2178 4. Try each badword with an S on the end as well and also check for 'f.u c'
2179 type things as well (this only works for a few wellknown english ones).
2180 5. Go back to the old way of caching commands (but without the silly warnings
2181 because I know better what I am doing now). This allows symbolic debugging
2182 of commands again without coredumps. Hurrah!
2183 6. Add badword handling for messages. Users will get rude messages back if
2184 they try to send naughty words in msgs. Incoming messages with badwords will
2185 be dropped on receipt and their contents logged.
2186 7. and if you swear 3 or more times you are unceremoniously logged out.
2187 30Sep01=======================================================================
2188 1. made some small bug fixes in rspf checking and also messages.
2189 23Sep01=======================================================================
2190 1. I have incorporated Steve's (K9AN) lastest sh/sun and sh/moon stuff which
2191 copes much better with some of the end effects that occur in these calc-
2192 ulations. You can now also see up to a year into the past or future. The
2193 results compare favourably with the US Naval Obs (unlike certain other
2194 software's output which "I would not want to use their results to aim my
2195 moon rocket..."). It also fixes some ambiguity about which day the results
2197 21Sep01=======================================================================
2198 1. fix set/lockout so that it is possible to lock out all SSIDs except those
2199 specifically unlocked and so that you don't need to lock the non-SSID call in
2200 order to lock an SSID call. So set/lock g1tlh will lock out all instances of
2201 g1tlh, g1tlh-1, g1tlh-15 etc except (for instance) unset/lock g1tlh-9.
2202 2. show/lock allows partial callsign matching so sh/lock gb7 will only show
2203 GB7* calls that are locked.
2204 3. Had a grand shift around for the start of NP.
2205 19Sep01=======================================================================
2206 1. put in some rudimentory rsfp checking for various things
2207 2. tried to do some fixes on console.pl - YOU WILL REQUIRE Curses 1.06 from
2208 CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then at cpan> install Curses).
2209 17Sep01=======================================================================
2210 1. Fixed help and apropos commands so that they default to english if
2211 the language is not english and help in the 'not english' language isn't
2213 2. added some help text for sh/newc.
2214 15Sep01=======================================================================
2216 2. found 1st bug, fixed unset/logininfo reseting itself after logout
2217 14Sep01=======================================================================
2218 1. added the start of script files on login/startup. You can now add
2219 commands (for example to set variables) to a file called
2220 /spider/scripts/startup. You can also put in scripts for a callsign which
2221 will be executed when that callsign logs on. A sample script is in the
2222 directory (you did remember to do cvs update -d?). User settable versions
2223 of this will happen when the general mechanism for doing that is available.
2224 2. Added set/unset/anntalk commands. If you unset/anntalk then you will
2225 no longer see many of the of talk like announces. Unfortunately you may
2226 miss the odd useful one as well (but since everything is repeated many times
2227 you probably won't :-)
2228 3. centralise the invalid callsign check so that g1tlh1 and similar calls
2229 will not be allowed to login anymore.
2230 4. Fiddle with the lockout mechanism so that set/login g1tlh also locks out
2231 g1tlh-1 -> g1tlh-15 UNLESS one of these is specifically unlocked.
2232 5. Make sh/log only show stuff that sh/ann, sh/talk, sh/rcmd doesn't.
2233 6. Make the scripts look for user and node_default files if there isn't a
2235 7. add the blank command which prints nn blank lines (default 1), this cmd
2236 can also print lines of characters: see help for examples.
2237 13Sep01=======================================================================
2238 1. did some work on making talk more intelligent and fixed a>b problem.
2239 2. fixed a nasty problem on input when being hit with full buffers of
2240 data (eg at init time with large lists of node/users on fast links).
2241 3. fixed realtime input filter changing.
2242 4. added announce->talk conversion for routable calls when announces of the
2243 form 'to g1tlh hello', 't g1tlh hello' or 'g1tlh hello' appear.
2244 This also suppresses similar announces for users whose callsign is not the
2245 one in the announce.
2246 5. Change the badwords interface to be the same as baddx, badspotter et al.
2247 added set/badword, unset/badword and show/badword. This routine will auto
2248 convert (and delete afterwards) the old badwords file.
2249 6. fix intermittant bullitin mail forwarding?
2250 11Sep01=======================================================================
2251 1. added IP address logging of connections
2252 10Sep01=======================================================================
2253 1. clear/* node_default and user_default now work.
2254 2. in acc or rej/* you can now use (comma separated) prefixes as well as lists
2255 of numbers for things like *_dxcc, *_itu and *_cq (eg: by_dxcc ve,w); just
2256 remember that countries like ve and w have lots of zones and itus!
2257 3. Added all the clear/* commands to help and added some comments about 2.
2258 4. All filters (including *_default ones) are now reinstalled on channels in
2259 realtime, so changing a filter does NOT require a disconnect and reconnect
2261 09Sep01=======================================================================
2262 1. Add show/dxstats command
2263 2. Add show/hfstats command
2264 3. Add show/vhfstats command
2265 4. Add show/hftable command
2266 5. Add show/vhftable command (BE WARNED, the first time you run one of these
2267 commands it will take some considerable time to complete, thereafter it will
2269 08Sep01=======================================================================
2270 1. Update the sgml docs on filtering a bit.
2271 06Sep01=======================================================================
2272 1. prevent nodes appearing as users from incoming PC16s
2273 2. Change ping averaging to be like TCP and become a smoothed RTT.
2274 3. Make all the Prompts in stat/* like output appear in alphebetical order
2275 4. Fix problem with 17m spots not appearing in sh/dx
2276 5. pump up eph dups everytime they re-occur and increase life to 180 secs
2277 04Sep01=======================================================================
2278 1. add delete/user command
2279 03Sep01=======================================================================
2280 1. make spot dups look back 5 mins.
2281 2. strip the top off each character in any text field of a Spot for duping.
2282 3. Try to make the routing tables more accurate for users that login to
2284 4. Make PC50s come out in one heap on all channels every 14 mins, instead of
2285 on the 14th minute in the connection time for each channel. This should
2286 reduce (slightly) the dups that are dumped.
2287 5. Speed up input queue processing (a lot).
2288 6. make set/isolate and acc/route mutually exclusive (and issue appropriate
2289 error messages) and fix set/iso on PC18 input.
2290 7. Improve stat/route_node and stat/route_user for diagnostics.
2291 8. strip top bit of comments in ann/spots.
2292 9. fix the announce filtering problem.
2293 10. Fix the double announcement of node disconnections?
2294 01Sep01=======================================================================
2295 1. Change build number calc (hopefully for the last time)
2296 27Aug01=======================================================================
2297 1. make rej/wwv and rej/wcy work
2298 26Aug01=======================================================================
2299 1. make all newly learned nodes locked out by default.
2300 2. add lock_nodes.pl which locks out all the nodes in the user file whose
2301 privilege is 1 or less and which isn't mentioned as an argument to the
2302 command on the command line.
2303 3. make set/node, set/spider and their friends unlock a node as well as make
2305 4. Make sh/log et al more efficient / less memory hungry (and the display
2306 the correct way round!)
2307 24Aug01=======================================================================
2308 1. Allow badmsg to reject on interface callsign ('I')
2309 20Aug01=======================================================================
2310 1. protect against PC41s with field[3] == field[2]
2311 2. Redo Julian stuff as proper objects
2312 3. Make the various Log display come out forwards instead of backwards
2313 4. Add the dbgclean routine to system cron to clear out all debug files
2314 more then 10 days old.
2315 19Aug01=======================================================================
2317 2. make isolation when there are no filters present work again?
2318 3. dup check PC16/17/19/21 !
2319 17Aug01=======================================================================
2320 1. Sort out PC41 handling to include type 5 records for QRA locators and also
2321 remove all filtering (but retain ephemeral dup checking).
2322 2. Improve format checking in latlong and qra locators.
2323 3. Sort sh/st so that sh/st by itself displays only the local call not the
2324 whole lot (all 17000+ users records in my case). SH/ST ALL does this.
2325 16Aug01=======================================================================
2326 1. send a forward/opernam for a logged in user once a month (when they next
2328 2. rearrange rcmd stuff to be more maintainable and also be certain that
2329 they are translated in both directions correctly for clx and ak1a style.
2330 3. Allow PC41s to be propagated and hope that the ephemeral dup filters
2332 15Aug01=======================================================================
2333 1. fix problem with talks not coming out anymore
2334 13Aug01=======================================================================
2335 1. fixed problem of dxspots not being echoed back to spotter (announces too)
2336 02Aug01=======================================================================
2337 1. correct manual and help references on accept/route and reject/route. Thanks
2338 to ea1dav for pointing out the errors
2339 2. make sure that the actual line is printed in grepdbg & watchdbg esp. with
2340 ALL the '^' and leading space characters as they really are
2341 30Jul01=======================================================================
2342 1. changes to manuals to add links etc. (g0vgs)
2343 23Jul01=======================================================================
2344 1. made ann,dx spots,wwv,wcy,wx more 'object oriented'.
2345 2. allow for 'enhanced clients' and tell them what sort of thing is being
2347 3. Allow debug info to be sent via interface to an enhanced client.
2348 21Jul01=======================================================================
2349 1. started a gtkconsole program. It appears to sort of work. Requires Gtk-
2351 2. start doing some spot statistical stuff.
2352 19Jul01=======================================================================
2353 1. changes to Admin Manual to reflect route filtering. Some alterations to
2354 the help files (g0vgs)
2355 09Jul01=======================================================================
2356 1. fix cron so that it allows stuff to be executed on the hour (ie min=0)
2357 06Jul01=======================================================================
2358 1. fix talk and routing problems to mycall
2359 2. add unset/privilege command to relinquish any sysop privileges you might
2360 have for the current session.
2361 05Jul01=======================================================================
2362 1. disconnect channels whose route node has disappeared
2363 29Jun01=======================================================================
2364 1. fix merge command
2365 28Jun01=======================================================================
2366 1. fix problems with users on more than one node
2367 27Jun01=======================================================================
2368 1. try adding an ARC mail hack
2369 2. slug the not here messages so they can't loopback
2370 25Jun01=======================================================================
2371 1. added automatic 'not here' message
2372 21Jun01=======================================================================
2373 1. fix (some) problems with 'init'
2374 2. fix stat/msg a bit more
2375 3. small change to PC28 generation to make sure that the subject always
2376 contains at least a blank
2377 16Jun01=======================================================================
2380 14Jun01=======================================================================
2381 1. changed debug api to (potentially) use less cpu time
2382 2. changed the spider.cgi in Arnold's borrowed java client to Ian's perl
2384 3. Added input route filtering
2385 4. put back the set/isolate logic into routing which is now overridable with
2386 filters whcih means a default filter is no longer generated. If you want the
2387 OLD behaviour, do rm /spider/filter/route/*.pl*, restart and try again.
2388 5. Add http_proxy to Internet.pm and allow sh/qrz to use an HTTP Proxy
2389 13Jun01=======================================================================
2390 1. fix init cnd rinit cmds
2391 2. add missing clear/route cmd
2392 10Jun01=======================================================================
2393 1. fix set/here and unset/here
2394 2. fix indirect routing to users two hops away
2395 09Jun01=======================================================================
2397 2. add set/debug filter so that you can see why your filters aren't working
2399 3. add ephemera deduping for all those PC41,24,50 etc etc broadcasts
2400 4. Fix a problem with the connect text being sent on outgoing connections
2401 (this confuses db0fhf amongst other things)
2402 5. catch deep recursion bugs before you run out of memory.
2403 6. Make sure that PC16|17|19|21 update as well as add and delete
2404 7. local announces by the sysop will always be displayed
2405 08Jun01=======================================================================
2406 1. first cut with new routing code. Created NEW_ROUTE branch
2407 2. added acc/route and rej/route commands
2408 3. added stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands to look at the routing
2410 07Jun01=======================================================================
2411 1. move userconfig.pl and nodeconfig.pl to stat/
2412 2. fix problem with locally connected users not being removed from the
2414 3. Fix the build calc to take into account subdirectories
2415 06Jun01=======================================================================
2416 1. add stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands
2417 2. add sh/userconfig command (to show backward links to nodes)
2418 3. add sh/nodeconfig command
2419 05Jun01=======================================================================
2420 1. add set/bbs command
2421 2. more work on Routing code.
2422 3. status/msg on its own will print the status of the msg system.
2423 4. add sh/newconfig command
2424 03Jun01=======================================================================
2425 1. Fix the problem with ExtMsg and unresolvable IP addresses, hopefully
2427 15May01=======================================================================
2428 1. set/lockout now prevents any outgoing connection taking place.
2429 2. Started the new routing stuff which will run in parallel for a while.
2430 3. changed the msg timeout arrangements so that it might not get stuck so
2432 4. add $DXMsg::bulltopriv global to make msgs to known callsigns private
2433 14May01=======================================================================
2434 1. fix problem with re-reading in db definitions for remote databases.
2435 2. try to prevent situations where two can (semi) successfully login, probably
2436 under load, and get a 'tried to connect whilst already connected' abort.
2437 3. change the max number of days to search for spots to 100
2438 11May01=======================================================================
2439 1. allow stat/msg on priv 1
2440 07May01=======================================================================
2441 1. set/page 0 switches off paging
2442 03May01=======================================================================
2443 1. It appears that for ages now, not enough PC19 and PC16s are being sent
2444 if you have more than one of them. Sigh..
2445 02May01=======================================================================
2446 1. put an upper limit on the number of concurrent errors allowed in command
2447 mode (20). This should disconnect runaway spot suckers....
2448 28Apr01=======================================================================
2449 1. fix an occasional problem with 'sorry connected to' messages
2450 23Apr01=======================================================================
2451 1. fix very long standing bug in storing and transmitting spots. The decimal
2452 point was left off :-(
2453 22Apr01=======================================================================
2454 1. Sysops can now have full privileges if there is a ExtMsg listener on
2455 localhost (or everything) and they telnet to localhost and login with their
2456 callsign. This means that they don't need a client anymore (for local access)
2457 2. added input spot filtering.
2458 3. Added run_cmd to DXCron which allows you to run any command on the system
2459 from the crontab. (Dunno why I didn't do this before).
2460 18Apr01=======================================================================
2461 1. added Ian M0AZM's Java Client (SpiderConsole)
2462 17Apr01=======================================================================
2463 1. made a slight speedup on write in Msg.pm (about doubled it)
2464 16Apr01=======================================================================
2465 1. make the correct error messages come out on reject/accept when people
2466 leave out keywords like 'on'.
2467 2. Fairly major changes to the documentation tree. Split the admin manual
2468 into 2 sections, Installation and Admin and merge the Windows stuff.
2469 15Apr01=======================================================================
2470 1. made some mods to the sgml documentation for 1.47
2471 2. added show/connect command
2472 11Apr01=======================================================================
2473 1. fixed more of the "xxx disappeared from yyy" messages
2474 2. altered the build no logic so that it always checksums the same files
2475 regardless of whatever else you might have in the directory.
2476 3. made shortcut at shutdown so that you don't get a storm of PC21s on busy
2477 nodes as each connection goes down. Just send a pc39 to each interface and
2479 4. changed action of SIG{INT} and SIG{TERM} so that they now work on MSWin32
2480 10Apr01=======================================================================
2481 1. altered PC21 logic somewhat to eliminate dup PC21s
2482 2. disconnect should remove dangling local users in the routing table.
2483 3. fixed nasty recursive timer bug
2484 4. added some extra info to make connect tracking a bit easier.
2485 5. improved docs on connect scripts a bit (to include agw connects)
2486 09Apr01=======================================================================
2487 1. changed lockfile name to cluster.lck (from .lock) for MSWin's benefit
2488 08Apr01=======================================================================
2489 1. added a quick installation guide to the admin manual and removed references
2490 to client.pl (g0vgs)
2491 01Apr01=======================================================================
2492 1. changed agwrestart semantics. You need to use main::agwrestart() in your
2493 crontabs rather than AGWMsg::init();
2494 2. try to thread winclient.pl for MSWin32.
2495 31Mar01=======================================================================
2496 1. added agwrestart command
2497 2. add Iains Windoze installation manual (g0vgs)
2498 3. various alterations to adminmanual and initial version of the CVS changes
2500 30Mar01=======================================================================
2501 1. fix errors on accept in ExtMsg and in Msg
2502 2. fix the non-blocking problems of connects (and other things in general).
2503 non-blocking only works for unix implementations at the moment.
2504 3. add rinit command (sends a PC20)
2505 4. improve debuging so that stuff is always escaped and a new 'raw' debug
2506 mode that shows everything sent and received in glorious hex and characters
2507 29Mar01=======================================================================
2508 1. add better tracking of AGW circuits (possibly)
2509 2. add set and unset/agwmonitor (ing) [for all the notice it seems to take]
2510 28Mar01=======================================================================
2511 1. AGW engine stuff now accepts incoming calls and at least attempts to do
2512 outgoing ones. YMMV.
2513 2. fixed 'always' telnet on a client line in a connect script
2514 27Mar01=======================================================================
2515 1. add first cut at an AGW Engine. Copy /spider/perl/AGWConnect.pm to
2516 /spider/local and edit it appropriately. You shouldn't need a login and passwd
2517 if you are using the default setup. It may allow incoming connects (and then
2518 again it may not - I don't have a reliable infrostructure to test with at the
2519 moment). The AGW Engine is a M$ thingy, but that don't preclude you connecting
2520 to it from a unix box.
2521 22Mar01=======================================================================
2522 1. edit the helpfile for set/debug and add help for show/debug
2523 2. Allow ^Z again on messages
2524 3. Added back onboard support for ax25 OUTBOUND connections. You will need
2525 exactly the same facilities as before (ie netrom_call, ax25_call suid root
2526 etc) but it is called direct from the cluster.pl - client.pl is DEAD!
2527 19Mar01=======================================================================
2528 1. Add 'not allowed' messages into sh/filter with callsign and reduce priv
2529 2. decode %xx characters in winclient.pl
2531 18Mar01=======================================================================
2532 1. minor changes to user and admin manuals. Added revsion numbers
2533 17Mar01=======================================================================
2534 1. put block check back in, try a work around for EWOULDBLOCK/EINPROGRESS
2536 16Mar01=======================================================================
2537 1. integrate build number into main cluster and change the PC18 to show
2538 version and build in the text portion
2539 14Mar01=======================================================================
2540 1. first cut at outgoing ax25 /external program connects
2541 2. slight change of interface to connect
2542 3. added a build number to sh/version
2543 13Mar01=======================================================================
2544 1. implemented first cut at non blocking connect
2545 2. removed memory leakage in connects
2546 3. add link IP address if available on who
2547 4. made the \r\n work correctly on External connections
2548 5. removed client.pl
2549 6. fixed memory leakages in DXMsg
2550 7. fixed pc39/21 handling
2551 8. fixed routing table issues and general disconnection tidy up
2552 10Mar01=======================================================================
2553 1. minor changes to the admin manual to reflect differences in distibutions
2554 thanks to pa3ezl (g0vgs)
2555 2. add (finally) the first draft of the usermanual (g0vgs)
2556 05Mar01=======================================================================
2557 1. do some major surgery on the connect logic to shorten the possibility of
2558 duplicate connects happening
2559 2. fix stupid error on sh/qrz queries that don't work
2560 04Mar01=======================================================================
2561 1. allow fallback to english for help
2562 03Mar01=======================================================================
2563 1. allow incoming and outgoing IP connects direct to cluster.pl
2564 2. fixed (long standing)a hole in PC17 handling
2565 3. added winclient.pl (actually just a very basic client) from Iain G0RDI
2566 4. Added Spanish as a language (thanks ea1dav) (g0vgs)
2567 5. ignore BUST(ED) spots
2568 28Feb01=======================================================================
2569 1. allow sh/c gb7 (ie show the config of all gb7 nodes)(for example)
2570 2. get rid of spurious DXHash 'uninitialised' messages if no corresponding
2572 3. changed policy of $censorpc in DXProt.pm so that badwords are looked for
2573 in all text announces etc.
2574 4. Unpad (remove excess spaces from) spotted callsigns in PC11.
2575 5. test for opertaing system in various places and do different if M$
2576 27Feb01=======================================================================
2577 1. allow partial node callsigns on sh/c (eg sh/c gb7)
2578 2. Changed Msg.pm to allow a more generalised interface with more than one
2580 3. Added IntMsg.pm to implement the internal connection management that is
2581 currently scattered about the cluster code.
2582 25Feb01=======================================================================
2583 1. Fixed watchdbg so that simple arguments work again
2584 22Feb01=======================================================================
2585 1. Added platform name to sh/version
2586 2. changed client.pl so that it send \r\n instead of \n on telnet connects
2587 3. added lineend '\r\n' command to connect scripts so you can override
2589 03Feb01=======================================================================
2590 1. Changes and additions to the manual and added a help file for sh/log (g0vgs)
2591 13Jan01=======================================================================
2592 1. Documentation alterations to match new commands etc (g0vgs)
2593 08Jan01=======================================================================
2594 1. Changed the way that badnodes, baddx etc work. There is a new general way
2595 implemented (dunno why I didn't do this before - hey ho...) as a consequence
2596 there are set/unset/show baddx (for bad dx callsigns) badnode (for dx from
2597 bad nodes) badspotter (for bad spotters of dx eg VE2STN). Expect more of
2598 this sort of thing...
2599 2. Added one to the copyright dates...
2600 06Jan01=======================================================================
2601 1. Fix set/obscount so it actually works.
2602 2. Allow different number formats for set/pingint eg: 5m for 5 minutes and
2603 120s for 120 seconds (and 1h for 1 hour).
2604 03Jan01=======================================================================
2605 1. Added a txt directory for txt versions of manuals (g0vgs)
2606 2. Various documentation changes
2607 02Jan01=======================================================================
2608 1. added a help file for forward/latlong and updated the admin manual to
2610 2. Add spot2csv.pl to convert spot files into tab delimited .csv format.
2611 3. Add show/route to see which interface a station is connected on.
2612 31Dec00=======================================================================
2613 1. add lat/long info to show/prefix
2614 30Dec00=======================================================================
2615 1. added latest version of the admin manual from Ian G0VGS.
2616 23Dec00=======================================================================
2617 1. don't route anything back down the channel it came from.
2618 2. and, in the process, fix some silly errors in routing converted rcmd PCs
2619 3. changed all occurrances of 'freq' in filter help to 'on' and corrected
2620 some errors (eg freq/ssb).
2621 4. added latest admin manual.
2622 18Dec00=======================================================================
2623 1. fix double printing of DB results
2624 2. add new style filtering for WWV and WCY to complete the set
2625 3. got the field nos right (hopefully) on Announces for filters
2626 05Dec00=======================================================================
2627 1. fix frequency hinting routine so it correctly handles things like 'on 23cm'
2628 where digits are the 'wrong' way round.
2629 2. made default max days to search for spots 3 months.
2630 3. added hex decodes for those pesky 'national' characters that aren't really
2631 in grepdbg and watchdbg.
2632 4. decide that we are using Latin-1 and therefore characters 0x80-0x9f are
2634 5. fix the announces so that they are all UPPER CASE for poor old DXTelnet.
2635 03Dec00=======================================================================
2636 1. change grepdbg and watchdbg so that you can see a number of lines before
2637 the condx that you are looking for so:-
2640 will show both the LOOP line and the preceeding 2 lines.
2641 2. add PCPROT to all error condx lines in DXProt.pm so that you can watch
2642 for them more easily.
2643 30Nov00=======================================================================
2644 1. remove %nn strings from dups of announces and spots
2645 2. remove check for ssids on PC41s
2646 29Nov00=======================================================================
2647 1. make some small changes to DXmsg to try to track delete problems?
2648 2. fix ann/full so it doesn't dup
2649 27Nov00=======================================================================
2650 1. alter sh/wcy output slightly
2651 26Nov00=======================================================================
2652 1. made it possible for sysop calls to be used on other nodes and still have
2653 anti loop checking on PC16/17.
2654 25Nov00=======================================================================
2655 1. -l <nnn> now works on C client
2656 2. -e toggles echo cancelling (normally on) on C client
2657 20Nov00=======================================================================
2658 1. added even more checking to PC16,17 and 39
2659 19Nov00=======================================================================
2660 1. improve reaping code a bit more.
2661 2. put some extra checking in the PC16,17,19,21 code.
2662 3. fix problem with the aliased user disappearing and loads of 'unitialised'
2663 messages coming out.
2664 16Nov00=======================================================================
2665 1. Alter the process reaping code in cluster.pl to use waitpid
2666 12Nov00=======================================================================
2667 1. Fix lack 't' action in Filter.pm
2668 08Nov00=======================================================================
2669 1. fix cosmetic errors in for/oper for 'users'.
2670 07Nov00=======================================================================
2671 1. removed sh/call because the owner isn't happy about us using it.
2672 2. change sh/qrz to the new interface. MUCH QUICKER! you will need a user id
2673 and password from qrz.com to use it and you will have to copy the
2674 /spider/perl/Internet.pm to /spider/local and alter it accordingly. Do
2675 remember to set $allow=1 as well! The new interface comes courtesy of Fred
2676 LLoyd, the proprietor of http://www.qrz.com
2677 06Nov00=======================================================================
2678 1. Added sh/qrz to the list of callbook services
2679 05Nov00=======================================================================
2680 1. 75% speed up on sh/dx !, lower memory usage as well!
2681 2. Fixed problem with clear/spot 0 (how did this one last so long!!!)
2682 3. add 'on' in accept/reject spots as synonym for 'freq'
2683 4. add the same speed up to general log printing
2685 04Nov00=======================================================================
2686 1. fix sh/filter so ity now works for any callsign (and not just connected
2688 2. Have only one is_callsign and not an iscallsign as well.
2689 3. Add set/hops and show/hops commands.
2690 4. Add unset/badnode command and put some help in for these commands
2691 03Nov00=======================================================================
2692 1. allow - in filter strings
2693 2. store only the filter expression NOTE BENE: you will need to clear all
2694 your existing filters and re-enter them!!!!!!
2695 3. Added announce filtering
2696 4. Fixed problem with announce filtering on output to the node
2697 02Nov00=======================================================================
2698 1. updated filtering logic. You will need to RECREATE your filters (clear/spot
2699 all, then start again) for testing.
2700 2. allow PC73 for DXNet
2701 3. added some help text for filtering and filtering spots in particular.
2702 01Nov00=======================================================================
2703 1. put PC11 field 2 check back to m for pc text.
2704 2. improve 'simple' callsign checking
2705 3. Added the first cut of the new user/sysop filtering code. This cut works
2706 for spots and the syntax is:-
2708 accept/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2709 reject/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2712 freq 0/30000 | hf | hf/cw | 6m,4m,2m
2723 channel GB7DJK,GB7BAA
2725 You can simply string these together on one line one after the other and
2726 there is an implied 'and', you can also string together with 'or' 'not' (or
2727 '!') and '(' and ')' - in otherwords an arbitrary expression.
2729 You can see what you have done with:
2731 show/filter [<call>]
2733 You can clear your work with:
2735 clear/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>|all]
2737 Have fun and someone please write the documentation.
2738 4. Added show/msg_status.pl sysop command (shows some info on what is busy in
2740 31Oct00=======================================================================
2741 1. add 0x8e to the list of characters we clobber (make xterm go into graphics
2743 30Oct00=======================================================================
2744 1. put in new Filter::it code and tested it. Now all we have to do is write
2745 the user access routines (oh and the help files!).
2746 29Oct00=======================================================================
2747 1. put in echo cancelling measures into the clients. This doesn't mean you
2748 shouldn't take steps to prevent echoing on node links, but it may help where
2749 (whatever you do) it still bloody echos! This is experimental.
2750 2. store dxchan and mynode as callsigns (and not references) in the routing
2751 tables and do some checking in accessors to see if we can capture some errors.
2752 3. tart up the stat/chan etc display to give more useful debugging info
2753 28Oct00=======================================================================
2754 1. updated show/sun and show/moon from stuff sent by Steve Franke K9AN
2755 2. added show/call which queries jeifer.pineknot.com for any call in the
2756 world (as opposed to UALR which only does US calls). Inspired by a bit of
2757 perl sent to me by Steve Franke (again!) and also Angel EA7WA who gave me the
2758 pineknot ip address.
2759 3. fixed clients so that they accept -0 as a valid SSID and then strip it off
2760 as though they had come in without (why has this taken so long to appear? How
2761 long have we been running this code ??????).
2762 27Oct00=======================================================================
2763 1. alter the code in clean_old of DXMsg system to see if we get some different
2764 behaviour with random crashing
2765 26Oct00=======================================================================
2766 1. if there is a 'connected' file in /spider/data then the client will send
2767 it out to the user after connection.
2768 25Oct00=======================================================================
2769 1. fix catchup and uncatchup commands so that they accept ranges
2770 24Oct00=======================================================================
2771 1. added cty.dat from http://www.k1ea.com/cty/index.htm to the prefix_data.pl
2772 data file and modified create_prefix.pl accordingly.
2773 2. the 'no text line' messages should now propagate correctly
2774 3. added the dxcc, itu and cq zone numbers for announcer and origining node
2775 on announce filters - see the /spider/filter/ann/*.issue files for more info.
2776 4. you can now specify a 'user_default.pl', 'node_default.pl' and
2777 'in_node_default.pl' in each of the filter directories
2778 23Oct00=======================================================================
2779 1. Added K5K as Kingman Reef
2780 1. Added K7K as Kure
2781 17Oct00=======================================================================
2782 1. force frames to go down the local interface when doing a route. This is
2783 particularly important for pings!
2784 16Oct00=======================================================================
2785 1. add a ':' after 'G7BRN de G1TLH' in a talk message.
2786 2. added /J to the list of things to ignore (as in G1TLH/J) in prefix
2787 processing (ie /J mean Jota not /JA [Japan]).
2788 3. change all INCOMING 00-08 0A-1F and 9B characters that make it past the
2789 intermediate client->server protocol to '.'.
2790 04Sep00=======================================================================
2791 1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
2793 02Sep00=======================================================================
2794 1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
2796 2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
2797 /spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
2798 ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
2799 sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
2800 are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
2801 ...k, ...ker, ...king).
2802 3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
2803 01Sep00=======================================================================
2804 1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
2805 28Aug00=======================================================================
2806 1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
2807 2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
2808 trying to disconnect themselves).
2809 3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
2810 (and transparently for spider nodes).
2811 26Aug00=======================================================================
2812 1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
2813 2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
2814 3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
2815 4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
2817 25Aug00=======================================================================
2818 1. moan about and then delete empty message files
2819 24Aug00=======================================================================
2820 1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
2821 automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
2822 23Aug00=======================================================================
2823 1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
2824 announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
2825 2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
2826 20Aug00=======================================================================
2827 1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
2828 2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
2829 and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
2830 3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
2831 19Aug00=======================================================================
2832 1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
2833 2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
2834 18Aug00=======================================================================
2835 1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
2836 2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
2837 not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
2838 3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
2839 15Aug00=======================================================================
2840 1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
2841 14Aug00=======================================================================
2842 1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
2843 2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
2844 13Aug00=======================================================================
2845 1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
2846 better for longer...
2847 05Aug00=======================================================================
2848 1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
2849 03Aug00=======================================================================
2850 1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
2852 2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
2853 (as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
2854 02Aug00=======================================================================
2855 1. put back hex check exception for PC29
2856 01Aug00=======================================================================
2857 1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
2858 generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
2859 execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
2860 2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
2861 31Jul00=======================================================================
2862 1. try to fix paging problem.
2863 2. added help for spoof and set/forward
2864 3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
2865 4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
2866 30Jul00=======================================================================
2867 1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
2868 2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
2869 3. bomb proofed the type command.
2870 4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
2871 5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
2872 6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
2873 7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
2874 8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
2875 9. Increase default hop counts all round.
2876 10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
2877 11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
2878 29Jul00=======================================================================
2879 1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
2880 and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
2882 2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
2883 sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
2885 3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
2886 28Jul00=======================================================================
2887 1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
2888 date/time translation to leave just the time.
2889 27Jul00=======================================================================
2890 1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
2891 2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
2892 3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
2893 4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
2894 5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
2896 6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
2897 7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
2898 8. Added sgml files into the source tree
2899 9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
2900 26Jul00=======================================================================
2901 1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
2902 2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
2904 3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
2905 4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
2906 duplicates and possibly corruptions.
2907 5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
2908 export the user data in ascii from cron.
2909 6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
2910 7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
2911 8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
2912 9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
2914 10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
2915 11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
2916 update the current user file.
2917 12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
2918 cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
2919 a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
2920 /spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
2921 13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
2922 14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
2923 15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
2924 corruptions and duplicates.
2925 25Jul00=======================================================================
2926 1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
2927 2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
2929 3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
2930 20Jul00=======================================================================
2931 1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
2932 2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
2933 3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
2934 4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
2935 5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
2936 blanks at the end of lines.
2937 25Jun00=======================================================================
2938 1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
2939 channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
2940 2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
2941 Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
2942 19Jun00=======================================================================
2943 1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
2944 2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
2945 via telnet in client.pl
2946 18Jun00=======================================================================
2947 1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
2948 actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
2949 Client.pl has got to go....
2950 2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
2951 17Jun00=======================================================================
2952 1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
2953 2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
2954 3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
2955 information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
2956 4. Added node type to links and who
2957 5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
2958 rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
2959 14Jun00=======================================================================
2960 1. fixed sh/node crash
2961 2. fixed RTT in who.pl
2962 13Jun00=======================================================================
2963 1. fixed looping bug in C client on ending.
2964 12Jun00=======================================================================
2965 1. Added RCMD for clx
2966 2. Added WCY processing
2967 3. Added new node types (clx, spider, dxnet, arcluster)
2968 4. Store echo settings
2969 5. Store pagelth settings
2970 6. sort out source of DXVars for callbot.pl
2973 11Jun00=======================================================================
2974 1. removed extraneous DXDebug from DXUtil
2975 2. added help for set/echo
2976 3. Centralised all spot, wwv and ann dup handling into respective packages.
2977 4. Created new AnnTalk package (for above and OOing announce and talk
2979 5. Fixed problem with outputting lines with | in them to console.pl.
2980 10Jun00=======================================================================
2981 1. got rid of some more nasty bugs in sh/qra.
2982 2. fixed 9A3xx to always be Croatia (and not Haiti!).
2983 09Jun00=======================================================================
2984 1. change some print commands in DXMsg to dbg('err'...
2985 2. overloaded confess, croak et al into DXDebug and removed Carp from
2986 everywhere and checked that the necessary debugging really does go into
2987 the debug files now.
2988 3. changed print statements in cluster.pl to dbg('err',... so they go into
2989 the debug files as well.
2990 4. Altered the logic around duplicate spots, reduced the length of comment
2991 checked to 20 characters (this should solve some problems including those
2992 people sucking ar-cluster spots with prefixes in the extreme rh end).
2993 08Jun00=======================================================================
2994 1. fixed problem with binary characters from cluster->client
2995 2. added set/echo and unset/echo commands
2996 3. echo login characters on login: prompt for C client
2997 4. Send \r\n on telnet connections for C Client
2998 5. Make echoing the default option (for M$ telnet clients :-()
2999 11May00=======================================================================
3000 1. fixed looping in Msg.pm (at last)
3001 10May00=======================================================================
3002 1. wrote a cross between 'tail -f' and grepdbg so that you can watch the
3003 debug files for particular strings and only have them print out.
3004 05May00=======================================================================
3005 1. rewrote parts of Msg.pm and client.c so that the messages no longer use
3006 a length word at the front of each one. They are simply strings of characters
3007 separated by a \n. No binary characters are allowed (they are encoded as %nn)
3008 a la HTTP. This hopefully cures Arnold's problem and also make it more
3009 secure anyway. It also paves the way for the ax25/ip multicast client.
3010 30Apr00=======================================================================
3011 1. put some extra checks and balances in to message send routine in Msg.pm to
3012 see if I can prevent the error seen by Arnold (which I think is only likely to
3013 appear in heavily loaded sites).
3014 25Apr00=======================================================================
3015 1. Changed reply so that you can reply to more than one address privately
3016 31Mar00=======================================================================
3017 1. fixed nnn-mmm in kill (erase/delete) msgs so that mmm is also deleted and
3018 not just nnn -> mmm-1.
3019 2. Added an autosplit to message importing so that messages are split
3020 automagically into bits if the filename used in the import directory starts
3021 with "split". This will add a [1/5] type string on the the end of the subject.
3022 3. dedupe more aggressively on the text of Spots so that only the 1st 27 chars
3023 of text are considered (as opposed to the whole lot).
3024 30Mar00=======================================================================
3025 1. altered client.pl connect code so that it doesn't falsely recognise
3026 /spider/src/client as a 'client' instruction.
3027 28Mar00=======================================================================
3028 1. Added buffering to client
3029 2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
3030 27Mar00=======================================================================
3031 1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
3032 2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
3033 3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
3034 4. A more robust version of the C client.
3035 5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
3036 6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
3037 7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
3038 be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
3039 26Mar00=======================================================================
3040 1. first cut of C client
3041 18Mar00=======================================================================
3042 1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
3043 08Mar00=======================================================================
3044 1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
3045 2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
3047 10Jan00=======================================================================
3048 1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
3049 08Jan00=======================================================================
3050 1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
3051 2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
3052 into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
3053 it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
3054 allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
3055 03Jan00=======================================================================
3056 1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
3057 2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
3058 of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
3060 3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
3061 01Jan00=======================================================================
3062 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
3064 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
3065 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
3066 "external" interface routines.
3067 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
3068 11Dec99=======================================================================
3069 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
3070 10Dec99=======================================================================
3071 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
3072 02Dec99=======================================================================
3073 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
3074 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
3075 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
3077 01Dec99=======================================================================
3078 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
3079 2. added www.qrz.com
3080 3. added www.buck.com
3081 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
3082 28Nov99=======================================================================
3083 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
3084 DXCluster->get_exact.
3085 24Nov99=======================================================================
3086 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
3087 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
3088 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
3089 for a field or test on a field and set another.
3090 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
3091 unread private mail does.
3092 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
3093 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
3094 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
3095 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
3096 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
3097 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
3098 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
3099 6. Added show/time command
3100 21Nov99=======================================================================
3101 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
3102 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
3103 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
3104 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
3106 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
3107 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
3108 20Nov99=======================================================================
3109 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
3110 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
3111 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
3112 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
3113 means disable pinging (not recommended).
3114 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
3115 level or passwd in stat/user.
3116 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
3117 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
3118 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
3120 19Nov99=======================================================================
3121 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
3122 2. Added rtt to who.
3123 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
3124 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
3125 18Nov99=======================================================================
3126 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
3127 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
3128 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
3129 after 12 minutes of nil response.
3130 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
3131 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
3132 17Nov99=======================================================================
3133 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
3134 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
3135 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
3136 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
3137 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
3138 14Nov99=======================================================================
3139 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
3140 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
3141 12Nov99=======================================================================
3142 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
3143 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
3144 08Nov99=======================================================================
3145 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
3146 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
3147 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
3148 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
3149 07Nov99=======================================================================
3150 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
3151 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
3153 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
3154 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
3155 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
3156 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
3157 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
3158 enquire on a local or remote database.
3159 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
3160 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
3161 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
3162 04Nov99=======================================================================
3163 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
3164 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
3165 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
3166 03Nov99=======================================================================
3167 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
3168 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
3169 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
3170 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
3171 31Oct99=======================================================================
3172 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
3174 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
3175 input spot filtering works.
3176 24Oct99=======================================================================
3177 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
3178 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
3179 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
3181 22Oct99=======================================================================
3182 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
3183 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
3184 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
3185 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
3186 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
3187 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
3188 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
3189 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
3190 to them as you get requests.
3191 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
3192 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
3193 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
3194 21Oct99=======================================================================
3195 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
3197 2. implemented sh/muf command.
3198 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
3199 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
3200 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
3201 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
3202 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
3203 20Oct99=======================================================================
3204 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
3205 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
3207 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
3208 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
3209 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
3210 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
3211 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
3212 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
3213 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
3214 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
3215 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
3216 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
3217 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
3218 18Oct99=======================================================================
3219 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
3220 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
3221 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
3222 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
3223 (request from G8TIC)
3224 21Sep99=======================================================================
3225 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
3226 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
3227 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
3228 30Aug99=======================================================================
3229 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
3230 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
3231 29Aug99=======================================================================
3232 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
3233 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
3234 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
3235 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
3236 if they have been sent as bulls.
3237 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
3238 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
3239 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
3240 25Aug99=======================================================================
3241 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
3242 24Aug99=======================================================================
3243 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
3244 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
3245 17Aug99=======================================================================
3246 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
3247 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
3249 19Jul99=======================================================================
3250 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
3251 and will look for the appropriate strings.
3252 17Jul99=======================================================================
3253 1. Started database integration.
3254 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
3255 16Jul99=======================================================================
3256 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
3257 embedded %XX characters).
3258 15Jul99=======================================================================
3259 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
3260 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
3262 10Jul99=======================================================================
3263 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
3264 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
3265 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
3266 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
3267 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
3268 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
3269 05Jul99=======================================================================
3270 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
3271 the msg and cluster node tables.
3272 04Jul99=======================================================================
3273 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
3274 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
3275 01Jul99=======================================================================
3276 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
3277 29Jun99=======================================================================
3278 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
3279 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
3280 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
3281 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
3282 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
3283 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
3285 28Jun99=======================================================================
3286 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
3287 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
3288 3. added colours to things.
3289 27Jun99=======================================================================
3290 1. added WWV filtering
3291 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
3292 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
3293 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
3295 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
3296 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
3297 messages queued up that are probably old.
3298 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
3299 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
3300 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
3301 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
3303 21Jun99=======================================================================
3304 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
3306 20Jun99=======================================================================
3307 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
3308 18Jun99=======================================================================
3309 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
3310 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
3311 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
3312 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
3313 that channel before re-initialising.
3314 4. add init command.
3315 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
3316 15Jun99=======================================================================
3317 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
3318 and dates of incidents).
3319 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
3321 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
3322 14Jun99=======================================================================
3323 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
3324 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
3325 08Jun99=======================================================================
3326 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
3327 03Jun99=======================================================================
3328 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
3330 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
3331 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
3332 dropped from those broadcasts.
3333 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
3334 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
3335 01Jun99=======================================================================
3336 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
3337 31May99=======================================================================
3338 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
3339 the channels that they are supposed to.
3340 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
3341 connecting node's privilege level).
3342 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
3343 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
3344 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
3345 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
3346 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
3347 25May99=======================================================================
3348 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
3349 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
3350 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
3351 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
3352 4. Added who command
3353 23May99=======================================================================
3354 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
3356 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
3357 23May99=======================================================================
3358 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
3359 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
3360 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
3361 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
3362 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
3363 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
3364 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
3365 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
3366 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
3367 and from callsigns etc.
3368 22May99=======================================================================
3369 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
3370 2. added show/files and type commands
3371 21May99=======================================================================
3372 1. made set/nodx work again.
3373 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
3374 18May99=======================================================================
3375 1. Added announce dup checking.
3376 2. Added system announce filtering.
3377 08May99=======================================================================
3378 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
3379 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
3380 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
3381 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
3382 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
3383 or user lines as input.
3384 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
3385 05May99=======================================================================
3386 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
3387 02May99=======================================================================
3388 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
3389 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
3390 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
3391 30Apr99=======================================================================
3392 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
3394 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
3395 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
3396 26Apr99=======================================================================
3397 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
3398 very little checking.
3399 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
3401 25Apr99=======================================================================
3402 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
3403 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
3404 20Apr99=======================================================================
3405 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
3406 corruptions/missing users less likely.
3407 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
3408 3. check dates much more rigourously.
3409 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
3410 15Mar99=======================================================================
3411 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
3412 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
3413 3. Added sysop command
3414 02Mar99========================================================================
3415 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
3416 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
3417 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
3418 25Feb99========================================================================
3419 1. added NL language stuff.
3420 2. added set/language
3421 21Feb99========================================================================
3422 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
3423 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
3424 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
3425 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
3426 17Feb99========================================================================
3427 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
3428 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
3429 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
3430 15Feb99========================================================================
3431 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
3432 14Feb99========================================================================
3433 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
3434 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
3435 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
3436 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
3437 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
3438 11Feb99========================================================================
3439 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
3440 local configs to new connections.
3441 08Feb99========================================================================
3442 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
3443 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
3444 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
3445 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
3446 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
3447 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
3448 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
3449 30Jan99========================================================================
3450 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
3452 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
3453 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
3454 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
3456 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
3457 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
3458 18Jan99========================================================================
3459 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
3460 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
3462 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
3463 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
3464 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
3465 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
3467 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
3468 the -M semantics are rather strange!
3469 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
3470 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
3472 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
3473 the call is connected to the node.
3474 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
3475 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
3476 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
3478 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
3479 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
3480 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
3482 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
3483 17Jan99========================================================================
3484 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
3485 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
3486 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
3488 3. Started filter and Database code.
3489 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
3491 07Jan99========================================================================
3492 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
3493 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
3494 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
3496 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
3497 06Jan99========================================================================
3498 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
3499 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
3500 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
3501 them)(thank you G0RDI).
3502 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
3503 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
3504 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
3505 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
3506 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
3507 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
3508 03Jan99========================================================================
3509 1. Upped the version no !!!!
3510 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
3511 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
3512 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
3513 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
3514 28Dec98========================================================================
3515 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
3516 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
3517 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
3518 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
3519 27Dec98========================================================================
3520 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
3521 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
3522 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
3524 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
3525 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
3526 23Dec98========================================================================
3527 1. Reindented various things
3528 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
3529 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
3530 22Dec98========================================================================
3531 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
3532 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
3533 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
3535 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
3536 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
3537 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
3539 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
3540 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
3541 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
3542 problems with the leading '0'!
3543 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
3544 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
3545 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
3546 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
3547 I have added a merge command.
3548 21Dec98========================================================================
3549 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
3550 2. Added more docs for client program.
3551 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
3552 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
3553 4. issue release 1.13
3554 20Dec98========================================================================
3555 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
3556 cluster and running a few commands).
3557 2. Added per node hop control.
3558 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
3559 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
3560 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
3561 19Dec98========================================================================
3562 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
3563 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
3564 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
3565 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
3566 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
3567 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
3568 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
3569 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
3570 14Dec98========================================================================
3571 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
3572 a real telnetd on port 23.
3573 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
3574 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
3575 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
3576 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
3577 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
3578 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
3579 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
3580 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
3581 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
3582 different scripts for the same callsign.
3583 8. Added sh/wwv command
3584 13Dec98========================================================================
3585 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
3586 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
3587 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
3589 4. fixed telnet connections
3590 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
3591 6. Added some more help
3593 12Dec98========================================================================
3594 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
3595 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
3596 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
3597 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
3598 disjoint cluster networks)
3599 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
3600 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
3601 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
3603 07Dec98========================================================================
3604 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
3606 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
3607 should stop clients hanging on exit.
3608 3. Added Alias support for help
3609 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
3610 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
3612 06Dec98========================================================================
3613 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
3614 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
3615 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
3616 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
3617 5. Started adding more help
3618 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
3619 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
3620 05Dec98========================================================================
3621 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
3622 04Dec98========================================================================
3623 1. Started Changes file
3624 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
3625 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
3626 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
3627 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
3628 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
3629 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
3630 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl