From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-gwn@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 26
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:31:24 -0400 [thread overview]
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 30th, 2003.
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1. Gentoo News
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Summary
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* Gentoo Linux adopts a new management structure
* Fork of Gentoo Linux announced
* GWN seeking additional translators
Gentoo Linux adopts a new management structure
----------------------------------------------
On Tuesday, June 24th, Daniel Robbins announced a new management structure
for the Gentoo Linux project. This new structure is designed to improve
management, coordination and communication issues in the Gentoo project.
The structure is composed of several key elements, including:
* Improved communication through the creation of regularly scheduled meetings
amongst the management team. Currently, meetings are held on an ad-hoc basis
which may cause gridlock in the communications channels and decision making
process.
* Delegated authority by clearly defining roles within the Gentoo project and
assigning managers who are responsible for those particular areas. These
"top-level" managers will be drawn from the current development team and
will have complete authority over day-to-day decisions within their
particular area(s). Additionally, decisions which cross multiple areas
within the project will be decided on by the management team as a whole,
rather than just one or two people.
* Improved accountability by ensuring that everyone on the team knows who is
responsible for a particular area. Projects without a clear owner can often
stagnate or get dropped through the cracks because people do not know who to
ask questions of. This new structure will ensure that everyone understands
who is responsible for large projects within Gentoo Linux.
By implementing these changes, the internal development methodology within
the Gentoo project should become much more efficient and responsive. They
will also serve to help reorganize the project in such a way to allow
Gentoo to continue its planned migration to a not-for-profit organization.
While most of these changes are directed inwards, users will notice
benefits as well through improved speed of delivery, increased quality
control and other tangible benefits.
Fork of Gentoo Linux announced
------------------------------
On Wednesday, June 25th, the creation of a new linux distribution was
announced, The Zynot Foundation[1]has created a new linux distribution,
based on Gentoo Linux, and will focus on the embedded markets as well as
supporting other architectures. By focusing on the embedded market, this
new distribution will be able to develop tools and technologies optimized
for this area which might otherwise be unsuitable for a traditional
desktop or server environments.
1. http://www.zynot.org/
GWN seeking additional translators
----------------------------------
Last week's call for translators[2] was such a success that this week
we're trying it again. The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is seeking help with
its Portuguese (Portugal) translation. Candidates should have a solid
understanding of both written Portuguese as well as written English.
Interested parties should send an email to gwn-feedback@gentoo.org.
2. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030623-newsletter.xml#
doc_chap1_sect5
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2. Gentoo Security
==================
Summary
-------
* GLSA: proftpd
* GLSA: ethereal
* GLSA: xpdf
* GLSA: acroread
* New Security Bug Reports
GLSA: proftpd
-------------
The ProFTPD server's mod_sql module permits a SQL Inject attack that may
allow a remote user to login without a valid password or user ID.
* Severity: High - Remote security vulnerabiity.
* Packages Affected: net-ftp/proftpd prior to proftpd-1.2.9_rc1
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge proftpd, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[3]
* Advisory[4]
3. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=105657824125601&w=2
4. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=105597431408016&w=2
GLSA: ethereal
--------------
It may be possible to execute a DoS or run arbitrary code on ethereal
through the use of a maliciously formed packet or a carefully crafted
trace file.
* Severity: High - Potential arbitrary code execution.
* Packages Affected: net-analyzer/ethereal prior to ethereal-0.9.13
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge ethereal, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[5]
* Advisory[6]
5. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=105658072328488&w=2
6. http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00010.html
GLSA: xpdf
----------
Hyperlinks in pdf files can execute arbitrary shell commands in many pdf
readers. Users must activate/follow the links for the exploit to activate.
* Severity: Moderate - Arbitrary command exploit requiring user action.
* Packages Affected: app-text/xpdf prior to xpdf-2.02.1
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge xpdf, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[7]
* Advisory[8]
7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=105657840125777&w=2
8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=105555332025253&w=2
GLSA: acroread
--------------
Hyperlinks in pdf files can execute arbitrary shell commands in many pdf
readers. Users must activate/follow the links for the exploit to activate.
* Severity: Moderate - Arbitrary command exploit requiring user action.
* Packages Affected: app-text/acroread prior to acroread-5.07
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge acroread, emerge clean.
* GLSA Announcement[9]
* Advisory[10]
9. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-announce&m=105657904426846&w=2
10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=105555332025253&w=2
New Security Bug Reports
------------------------
The following new security bugs were posted this week:
* net-analyzer/tcptraceroute[11]
11. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23410
===============
3. User stories
===============
Michael and his broken promise
Ok, in the last issue I told you that the user story will be back this
week, but as I got no submissions I couldn't keep this promise.
But let me take this chance to once again remind you to send your personal
Gentoo Linux story to user-stories@gentoo.org and enjoy to be in the
spotlight! Boys, girls or any other demographic group you'd like to
impress really like this kind of stuff!
=================================
4. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Paul de Vrieze
Paul de Vrieze[12] is a developer involved in several projects: he's part
of the KDE team, but he's also working on allowing the use of Berkeley DB4
in Gentoo, as well as the Herds project[13], whose purpose is to improve
developer coverage of the more than 4,000 ebuilds in the Portage tree.
Having spent over a year in the gentoo-dev mailing list tossing around
comments and referring people to past discussions, he was brought into the
team by Dan Armak[14], who had already filled the empty slots in the KDE
team but liked Paul's work with aegypten[15]. Now Paul does bugfixing like
any other developer, but also likes to think up improvements for problems
he runs into. That's how he started to work on the DB4 issue: in the old
setup db4 and db3 could not coexist; now they can thanks to versioning
symbols used by the db4 ebuilds, but certain packages need patches to work
with versioned symbols, and identifying them has been a lot of work. Right
now many packages are held back by the masking of db4, so fixing this
problem will allow Gentoo to move forward. Similarly, Paul found himself
with the position of openoffice bug-fixer: he wanted to try out the new
beta, but the only way was to actually fix it, and people who saw what he
did gave him the honor.
12. pauldv@gentoo.org
13. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030428-newsletter.xml#
doc_chap1_sect2
14. danarmak@gentoo.org
15. http://www.niii.kun.nl/~pauldv/kmailgentoo.php
Paul's favorite applications include kpat, the addictive KDE patience game
which converted his girlfriend to Linux, pdflatex, a cousin of latex that
directly generates clean PDF, Openoffice, which he thinks is already on
par with MS Office(he concedes that some advanced features aren't
implemented yet, but others, like the drawing capabilities, are more
advanced), and OpenSSH, which has made him more secure in communication.
His home working computer is a Pentium III 500MHz with 256MB RAM and a
7200RPM 30GB hard disk that boots Linux 99% of the time even though
win2000 and win98se are also installed. It boots into a GDM graphical
bootscreen ("Yes, it's GNOME, but it looks better than kdm", says Paul)
with the Gentoo theme, from which he logs into kde-3.1.2 with the
highcolor default widgets since he doesn't like the keramik theme. His
kicker panel is set to tiny size to leave more space for icons,
applications, and the knewsticker. The first applications he starts are
galeon, konsole, and kmail; he's still looking for a good, graphical imap
client since kmail is much slower than necessary. His home network has his
girlfriend's computer, set up similarly but not as customized, as well as
an infrequently updated Pentium 60 with 24MB of RAM running a bunch of
servers under Gentoo.
By day, Paul is a Ph.D student currently researching user modelling
systems - systems that try to adapt their behavior to what they perceive
the user to be. Some simple examples include MRU(most recently used)
lists, or the KDE start menu's MFU(most frequently used) list. Born on 30
September 1979, Paul is 23 now, and lives in Tilburg in the Netherlands
but commutes an hour by train to Nijmegen. Paul spends most of his
evenings contributing to Gentoo, although on Wednesday he does
significantly less thanks to the Dutch TV broadcasts of English detective
series like Inspector Morse and Dalziel and Pascoe which he and his
girlfriend like to watch. His other hobbies include reading news, playing
field hockey, and hiking with his girlfriend.
=========================
5. Heard in the Community
=========================
Web Forums
----------
Fork? TINC?
Plenty of excited murmur rose in the forums across several languages last
week, ever since the news of Gentoo-ARM lead developer Zwelch leaving the
team hit /. and OSNews. And in good forum style, hyperbole proves to be
man's best rhetorical friend (David Thomas, ex-Pere Ubu). Is Drobbins a
mess or the Messiah? The -core mailing list really a cabal? Is it all just
a scheme for making obscene amounts of money from embedded Gentoo that's
behind all this, or yet another rift because portage wasn't written in
C++? The time and place to check your own assumptions against reality:
* Gentoo fork???![16]
* Should the Gentoo secret lists be world-readable?[17]
* Fork di Gentoo[18] (Italian)
* Hey Gentoo hat sich gespaltet![19] (German (sort of))
* Gentoo Inc. Le débat s'élargit[20] (French)
16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63329
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63519
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63345
19. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63487
20. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=62450
New Moderatrice
Joining the moderator team is Brandy[21] from New Zealand, thus helping to
close the timezone gap that had left Asia pretty much on the sidelines of
forum actuality for the past few months. The fact that she's one of the
rare geek ladies among a vast majority of lads has triggered some
interestingly unbalanced threads even before she was promoted to
moderatorhood. Don't bother spraying pheromones over the following
threads, they're both locked, and Brandy can now take care of similar
outbreaks of misogyny herself...
* Why are Gentoo people so nice?[22]
* Just noticed.... Brandy is a moderator now..[23]
21. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=22219
22. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=59232
23. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63379
gentoo-user
-----------
Aside from the usual discussion regarding the recent fork, much other
discussion has occured on gentoo-user. This week, questions ranged from
the common grub and kernel modules to discussing what each user thought
was a strongpoint within the gentoo distribution.
Laptop Install Woes>
User Alberto Bert ran into one of the more common mistakes in a gentoo
install. Seeing that his laptop would not boot, he quickly posted asking
for help. Come to find out, the system was unable to mount the root
filesystem. Other users quickly pointed out that either the grub
configuration was to blame, or that the appropriate filesystem driver was
not compiled into the kernel. Link here[24].
24. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/38080
What do you like best on Gentoo?
Timo Boettcher was recently asked to make a presentation utilizing Gentoo
to his local LUG and decided to ask for opinions on what fellow gentoo
users saw as strongpoints of the distro. Various strengths that are
discussed include the developer, user, and support communities, USE Flags,
and being "low-maintenance" once it's installed. Link here[25].
25. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/37663
=======================
6. Gentoo International
=======================
Nothing to see here, please move along...
International news take a break this week. If there's something you'd like
to let the global GWN readership know, drop us a note to
gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
================
7. Portage Watch
================
The following notable packages were updated or added to portage in the
last two weeks
--------------
* sys-kernel/ac-sources: Full sources for Alan Cox's Linux kernel[26]
* sys-kernel/development-sources: Full sources for the Development Branch
of the Linux kernel[27]
* sys-kernel/gs-sources: This kernel stays up to date with current kernel
-pres, with recent acpi,evms,win3lin ,futexes,aic79xx,
superfreeswan,preempt/ll, and various hw fixes.[28]
26. http://www.kernel.org/
27. http://www.kernel.org/
28. http://www.kernel.org/
The following stable packages were updated or added to portage in the last
two weeks
---------
* app-admin/aide: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a
replacement for Tripwire[29]
* app-cdr/arson: A KDE frontend to CD burning and CD ripping tools.[30]
* app-editors/beaver: An Early AdVanced EditoR[31]
* app-emulation/advancemame: GNU/Linux port of the MAME emulator, with
GUI menu.[32]
* app-office/abiword: Fully featured yet light and fast cross platform
word processor.[33]
* app-shells/ash: NetBSD's lightweight bourne shell[34]
* app-text/bibletime: BibleTime KDE Bible study application using the
SWORD library.[35]
* dev-cpp/gnomemm: C++ binding for the GNOME libraries[36]
* dev-lang/R: R is GNU S - A language and environment for statistical
computing and graphics.[37]
* dev-libs/DirectFB: Thin library on top of the Linux framebuffer
devices[38]
* dev-perl/Apache-Gallery: Apache gallery for mod_perl[39]
* dev-perl/Apache-Test: Test.pm wrapper with helpers for testing
Apache[40]
* dev-perl/CGI-FastTemplate: The Perl CGI::FastTemplate Module[41]
* dev-perl/Cgi-Simple: The Perl CGI::Simple Module[42]
* dev-python/4Suite: Python tools for XML processing and
object-databases.[43]
* dev-ruby/amrita: A HTML/XHTML template library for Ruby[44]
* dev-util/aegis: A transaction based revision control system[45]
* gnome-base/ORBit2: ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB[46]
* gnome-extra/acme: GNOME tool to make use of the multimedia buttons
present on most laptops and internet keyboards.[47]
* kde-base/arts: aRts, the KDE sound (and all-around multimedia)
server/output manager[48]
* media-fonts/artwiz-fonts: Artwiz Fonts[49]
* media-libs/allegro: cross-platform multimedia library[50]
* media-plugins/alsa-xmms: Allows XMMS to output on any ALSA 0.9* device.
Supports surround 4.0 output with conversion[51]
* media-sound/SphinxTrain: SphinxTrain - Speech Recognition (Training
Module)[52]
* media-video/DFBSee: DFBSee is image viewer and video player based on
DirectFB[53]
* net-dns/bind: BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain - Name Server[54]
* net-firewall/firestarter: GUI for iptables firewall setup and
monitor.[55]
* net-ftp/ftp: Standard Linux FTP client with optional SSL support[56]
* net-im/bitlbee: Bitlbee is an irc to IM gateway that support mutliple
IM protocols[57]
* net-irc/bnc: BNC (BouNCe) is used as a gateway to an IRC Server[58]
* net-libs/c-client: UW IMAP c-client library[59]
* net-libs/gnet: GNet network library.[60]
* net-mail/amavis: A perl module which integrates virus scanning software
with your MTA[61]
* net-misc/aria: Aria is a download manager with a GTK+ GUI, it downloads
files from the Internet via HTTP/HTTPS or FTP.[62]
* net-p2p/bittorrent: BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files via a
distributed network of nodes[63]
* net-print/apsfilter: Apsfilter Prints So Fine, It Leads To
Extraordinary Results[64]
* net-www/amaya: The W3C Web-Browser[65]
* net-zope/abracadabraobject: This can add pre-configured ZOPE-objects to
folders through ZMI.[66]
* net-zope/cmf: Content Management Framework. Services for
content-oriented portal sites.[67]
* sys-libs/cracklib: Password Checking Library[68]
* sys-libs/db: Berkeley DB[69]
* sys-libs/gpm: Console-based mouse driver[70]
* x11-plugins/asbutton: A simple dockable application launcher for use in
AfterStep.[71]
29. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
30. http://arson.sourceforge.net/
31. http://eturquin.free.fr/beaver/index.htm
32. http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/
33. http://www.abisource.com
34. http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/sh/
35. http://bibletime.sourceforge.net/
36. http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/
37. http://www.r-project.org/
38. http://www.directfb.org/
39. http://search.cpan.org/author/LEGART/${P}
40. http://search.cpan.org/author/STAS/${P}
41. http://search.cpan.org/author/JMOORE/${P}/
42. http://search.cpan.org/author/JFREEMAN/${P}/
43. http://www.4suite.org/
44. http://www.brain-tokyo.jp/research/amrita/index.html
45. http://aegis.sourceforge.net
46. http://www.gnome.org/
47. http://www.hadess.net/misc-code.php3
48. http://multimedia.kde.org
49. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/artwiz-fonts.php
50. http://alleg.sourceforge.net/
51. http://savannah.gnu.org/download/alsa-xmms/
52. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/SphinxTrain/
53. http://www.directfb.org/dfbsee.xml
54. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html
55. http://firestarter.sf.net
56. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/netkit.html
57. http://www.lintux.cx/bitlbee.html
58. http://gotbnc.com/
59. http://www.washington.edu/imap/
60. http://www.gnetlibrary.org/
61. http://www.amavis.org
62. http://aria.rednoah.com
63. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
64. http://www.apsfilter.org
65. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
66. http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/AbracadabraObject
67. http://cmf.zope.org/
68. http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/
69. http://www.sleepycat.com
70. ftp://arcana.linux.it/pub/gpm/
71. http://www.tigr.net
Total categories: 86 (4 categories added in the last two weeks)
Total packages: 4478 (241 packages added in the last two weeks)
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[72]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 20 Jun 2003 and 26 Jun 2003, activity on the
site has resulted in:
72. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 313 new bugs during this period
* 457 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 10 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 3361 currently open bugs: 65 are labeled 'blocker', 129 are labeled
'critical', and 279 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* The Games Team[73], with 49 closed bugs[74]
* Martin Holzer[75], with 13 closed bugs[76]
* The Sound Team[77], with 13 closed bugs[78]
* Mike Frysinger[79], with 11 closed bugs[80]
* The Perl Team[81], with 9 closed bugs[82]
73. games@gentoo.org
74.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20&chfieldto=2003-06-26
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games%40gentoo.org
75. mholzer@gentoo.org
76.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20&chfieldto=2003-06-26
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mholzer%40gentoo.org
77. sound@gentoo.org
78.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20&chfieldto=2003-06-26
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound%40gentoo.org
79. vapier@gentoo.org
80.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20&chfieldto=2003-06-26
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=vapier%40gentoo.org
81. perl@gentoo.org
82.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20&chfieldto=2003-06-26
&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl%40gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Martin Schlemmer[83], with 15 new bugs[84]
* Nick Hadaway[85], with 14 new bugs[86]
* The Perl Team[87], with 10 new bugs[88]
* Nicholas Jones[89], with 8 new bugs[90]
* The Wine Team[91], with 7 new bugs[92]
83. azarah@gentoo.org
84. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20
&chfieldto=2003-06-26&=&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org
85. raker@gentoo.org
86. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20
&chfieldto=2003-06-26&=&assigned_to=raker%40gentoo.org
87. perl@gentoo.org
88. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20
&chfieldto=2003-06-26&=&assigned_to=perl%40gentoo.org
89. carpaski@gentoo.org
90. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20
&chfieldto=2003-06-26&=&assigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org
91. wine@gentoo.org
92. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-06-20
&chfieldto=2003-06-26&=&assigned_to=wine%40gentoo.org
==================
9. Tips and Tricks
==================
Quick Backup Tricks
This week we show you some quick backup tricks to keep important files
backed up in the event of a machine failure. To have these run daily, just
add these scripts to /etc/cron.daily. These aren't all encompassing but
could easily be expanded or combined with other simple scripts to ensure
that your system stays backed up.
This will backup all MySQL databases to secondary hard drive mounted on
/backup. You will end up with a file named mysql-2003-06-30.bz2 (mysql and
the current date).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 9.1: |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| #!/bin/sh |
| |
| mysqldump --user=root --password=password --all-databases | bzip2 > \ |
| /backup/mysql-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.bz2 |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This will backup all .maildir directories in /home to a second disk
mounted on /backup.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 9.2: |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| #!/bin/sh |
| |
| find /home -type d -maxdepth 2 -name '.maildir' | xargs \ |
| tar -cjf /backup/maildir-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.bz2 > /dev/null 2>&1 |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This will incrementally backup /etc/make.conf with a date and timestamp.
This command could easily be extended to backup to another server. See man
rsync or http://rsync.samba.org for more examples.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 9.3: |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| rsync --backup --suffix=.`date +%Y-%m-%d.%T` /etc/make.conf /backup |
| |
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10. Quote/Signature of the week
===============================
Forums user Anacific[93]'s signature is something for the little geek in
all of us: "To know recursion, you must first know recursion."
93. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=22014
===========================
11. Moves, Adds and Changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* Jack Morgan
* Graham Forest
* Zach Welch
* Bart Verwilst
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Stewart Honsberger (Blkdeath) - proftpd and other ebuilds
* Alex Veber (CoronaLVR) - wine
* Brian Jackson (iggy) - courier
* Donnie Berkholz (spyderous) - xfree
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project.
* none this week
=====================
12. Contribute to GWN
=====================
Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an
email[94].
94. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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