1 06Mar23=======================================================================
2 1. Fix filter error reporting, including incrementing concurrent error count
3 if there are actually any detected parse errors.
4 2. Fix warnings on difft.
5 3. Add the origin of any incoming SP if it is emailed to the recipient.
6 04Mar23=======================================================================
7 1. Fixed regression caused by too many command errors in (startup) script
8 files. This is caused by much stricter checking of commands entered both
9 by users AND scripts. If there more concurrent errors ie. greater than
10 $DXChannel::maxerrors (default 10) then that user will be disconnected.
12 Unfortunately this could include the $mycall (node) channel if there were
13 too many command users in the startup script. The example I looked at had
14 a load of HTML pasted into it.
16 For various reasons the only manifestation of this problem was that pings
19 This has been fixed. I am grateful to Fulvio HB9DHG for letting me break
20 his node for an hour or so until I worked out what was going on.
21 03Mar23=======================================================================
22 1. Fix DXDebug::DXDebug not found errors in rarely used functions. This is
23 also an interaction with differing versions of Mojolicious. Clearly this
24 has never happened to me (sigh).
25 2. Allow non-privileged users to use ping (no arguments) and get 'PONG nn'
26 where nn is an incrementing counter or if there is an argument it will
27 return 'PONG <argument>' - all in UPPER CASE. See help ping for more
29 02Mar23=======================================================================
30 1. Fix sh/dx/30 problem. I.e. allow old style version of sh/dx 30.
31 01Mar23=======================================================================
32 1. Revert PC92 A D and PC92 C record flags back to defaults.
33 2. Deal with users that send gibberish.
34 3. Fix show/425 (default) URL.
35 4. Improve Spot deduping.
36 28Feb23=======================================================================
37 1. Default ip addresses ON in PC92 C records, disable PC92 A D record output.
38 2. Add CTY-3308 prefixes.
39 3. Fix gen_usdb_data.pl (add missing use DXUtil), update current location of
40 official FCC databases.
41 4. Remove the duplicate IP addresses across exits and relays from badip lists
42 during generation by create_master_badip_files.pl.
43 14Feb23=======================================================================
44 1. Attempt to be more M$ Windows compatible. This basically is to do with the
45 unfortunate fact that most of the Windows perl cannot do, or simulate
46 spawning (running another process in parallel) and/or Mojolicious cannot
47 handle coping with one or more versions of these simulations.
49 I don't have a windows perl available to me at moment so I can only
50 simulate running under windows by setting a variable.
52 You need to know that running any version of DXSpider on Windows will do
53 all long running commands in line. Much as the 'master' branch does. So
54 running large nodes on Windows boxes with versions of perl that do not
55 support running spawned processes continues to be contra-indicated. Much
56 as it has ALWAYS been.
57 04Feb23=======================================================================
58 1. Fixed sh/log so that callsigns beginning with a digit (or several) are
59 printed rather than being ignored.
60 This affects: show/ann, chat, log, rcmd and wx
61 03Feb23=======================================================================
62 1. Fix is_ipaddr to accept trailing '::' on IPV6 addresses.
63 2. Fix and extend the TEST program 'showdx' so that it now works on the mojo
64 branch. Type 'showxd -?' for more information or read the source. This is
65 NOT a user program, but is will accept most sh/dx expressions.
66 3. Fix create_master_badip_files.pl so that it does not emit IP addresses
67 that the system is_ipaddr() function fails.
68 01Feb23=======================================================================
69 1. Harden DXCIDR (badip stuff) against format errors in downloaded badip files
70 downloaded using wget from the crontab. If these problems persist PLEASE
71 TELL me and send me examples of the errors that end up in the badip files.
72 30Jan23=======================================================================
73 1. Add ip addresses to outgoing PC93 messages
74 2. Get rid of (some of?) the uninitialised warnings
75 3. Add the ability to set the (time) locale to UTC or LOCALTIME by adding
76 the string LOCALE = UTC or LOCALE = LOCAL(TIME)? to your local crontab
78 NOTE: this will affect ALL timings in both the system as well as your
79 local crontabs. Changing the LOCALE will make no difference to the system
80 crontab other than using localtime rather than UTC. Which is fine by me.
82 You can see what crontab is doing and which LOCALE is in use by doing a
83 'set/debug cron' in a console and running a 'watchdbg cron' in another
85 25Jan23=======================================================================
86 1. Add a switch to enable the routing of generated PC92 A/D records and also
87 prevent the rebroadcast of incoming ones.
89 set/var $DXProt::pc92_ad_enable 0
91 to disable PC92 A/D records.
92 2. Add a switch to enable the addition of IP addresses to PC92 C records.
94 set/var $DXProt::pc92c_ipaddr_enable 1
96 to enable the addition of IP addresses to outgoing PC92 C records.
98 ## These two features are experimental, but will become the default if
99 ## some other changes and these are successful
100 24Jan23=======================================================================
101 1. Optimise the PC11->PC61 promotion code, improve readability of the
102 debugging when 'set/debug pc11' is active.
103 2. Remove spurious '$' character at the end of Listeners.pm (thanks Kin).
104 3, Fix show/ik3qar command
105 20Jan23=======================================================================
106 1. Add the variable @main::localhost_names to allow other IP addresses to
107 be treated in the same way as localhost in item 1 on 19Jan23 below. NOTE
108 you must include ALL the normal localhost names + any other interface
109 names that you might want to include:
111 set/var @main::localhost_names qw(127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.1.30)
113 using the qw() construction is easier than:
115 set/var @main::localhost_names ('127.0.0.1', '::1', '192.168.1.30')
117 but either will work. You can define as many IP addresses as you like and
118 they can be IPV4 or 6.
120 You do NOT need to fiddle with this unless you specifically have more
121 than just the normal definitions of localhost. So for 'normal' nodes with
122 one external interface, you DO NOT NEED TO DO ANY OF THIS.
123 2. Added CTY-3304 prefix data
124 3. Fix Bad IP address system so that one can carry on as normal without
125 Net::CIDR::Lite (or libnet-cidr-lite-perl on debian based systems)
126 19Jan23=======================================================================
127 1. Introduce aliasing for localhost in DX Spots and outgoing PC92 A records
128 on login. There are two variables which can be set with the alias to use:
129 $main::localhost_alias_ipv4
130 $main::localhost_alias_ipv6
131 These can be set in the /spider/scripts/startup, but this is only
132 necessary if the node has more than one interface, or virtual hosts. If
133 there is ONLY ONE ipv4 and/or ipv6 IP address on the node machine then
134 these variables will be automatically populated on first use. But the SAFE
135 thing to do is to set them in the startup file.
137 THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL...
138 18Jan23=======================================================================
139 1. Make sure than *every* channel has an IP address. Thank you (I think) Kin
140 for pointing out that PC92 A records were not going out with IP addresses.
141 I'm guessing that other things (like spots) had a similar problem.
142 15Jan23=======================================================================
143 1. Fix strange errors for carp on missing route_*_cache files on startup.
144 14Jan23=======================================================================
145 1. Fixed route PC11 promotions so that a new PC61 is actually generated and
146 also sent instead of the original PC11 (to PC61 capable nodes).
147 13Jan23=======================================================================
148 1. Periodically store Routing tables and, if they are young enough (def: 3hrs)
149 autotically restore them on restart of the node. This will short circuit
150 the need to rebuild the routing tables from scratch on every restart -
151 which is normally for something like software update.
152 2. Fix pc11 debugging stats with the correct figures. Sigh... Also move some
153 of the totals to a different place.
154 3. Add show/spotstats command which gives the current spot statistics shown
155 during pc11 debugging (which means you don't need to set/deb pc11 unless
156 you really want that extra noise).
157 12Jan23=======================================================================
158 1. Regularise 'set/debug pc11' output to track all the routes through PC11 and
159 PC61 processing and statistics.
160 11Jan23=======================================================================
161 1. Improve (?) the PC11 -> PC61 upgrading process that delays incoming PC11s
162 for a very short time in the hope that a PC61 will come in to be used
163 instead. It will also upgrade a PC11 if we have an uptodate IP address
164 that has come in from the routing system PC92s. do a 'set/debug pc11' to
166 2. I have chosen a definitive list of TOR exits and relays which can be
167 downloaded from http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit,
168 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay and finally, for those IP
169 addresses that are deemed to be 'bad':
170 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global. I have added the following
171 lines to my /spider/local_cmd/crontab:
173 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
174 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay')
175 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global')
176 25 * * * * run_cmd('load/badip')
178 The tor files are downloaded from https://lists.fissionrelays.net/tor/ at
179 15 minutes past every hour, please would you use some other minute than
180 23 or 24 to get your own local copies.
182 A 'set/debug badip' will show you what is being blocked.
183 3. Fix set/badip so that it appends new IP addresses correctly.
184 10Jan23=======================================================================
185 1. Add baddx on incoming callsign in RBN.
186 2. Search for all /spider/local_data/badip.* files to allow more control on
187 which IP addresses are detected. e.g. badip.torexit, badip.torrelay as well
188 as baddx.local. The suffixes, apart from .local (created by set/badip) are
189 completely arbitrary. You can use whichever suffix name you like. This is
190 a more useful arrangement for the ever increasing sources of "bad ip
191 addresses" that we need to deter.
193 NOTE: all badip.<suffix> are read only EXCEPT badip.local (which can be
194 altered in real time by the sysop using set/badip <ip address> ...).
195 If one uses periodic crontab jobs to update any other badip.<suffix>
196 files from web resources then don't forget to 'load/badip' afterwards.
197 3. Add a /spider/data/baddx.issue file which can be copied to (or used as a
198 basis to create) /spider/local_data/baddx
199 09Jan23=======================================================================
200 1. Finish implemention of DXCIDR ip address filtering. This works on both
201 logins (treated the same as locked out - i.e. just disconnected) and also
202 with PC61s where these sentences are just dropped. Also attempt to prevent
203 any *following* PC11s with the same data getting through.
205 YOU WILL NEED either 'cpanm Net::CIDR::Lite' or debian/ubuntu based distros
206 'apt install libnet-cidr-lite-perl'. RedHat based systems will have similar
209 2. Recognise PC18s coming from CC Clusters more nicely.
210 04Jan23=======================================================================
211 1. Fillout DXCIDR, attach checks in PC61 and logins. Login that fail will
212 simply disconnect, like locked out callsigns
213 2. Fix qrz.com URL in stock Internet.pm.
214 3. Fix DXHash issues (baddx, badnode, badspotter etc)
215 30Dec22=======================================================================
216 1. Add more BadWords (regex) checks.
217 01Dec22=======================================================================
218 1. Re-add some debugging to see which incoming PC protcol sentences are
219 being dumped because of any bad content (words or calls) if debugging
220 option 'nologchan' is set.
221 2. All debugging for badwords has the word 'badword' in it. So that one can
222 do a 'grepdbg -1 badword' and one should see who said it and all of what
223 they said. Watchdbg will also work with this.
224 3. My latest recommended additions to the badword list includes:
225 RU STOP SPOT DISGRACE CRM CRIM CRUD SUBHUMAN FASCIST DEGENERATE CATTLE CNT
226 23Nov22=======================================================================
227 1. The BadWord system has been rewritten. This change is pretty radical and
228 needs to be used with care as a word that is entered will be reduced to the
229 minimum sized string needed to match that word.
231 This is effective a sysop command changeable version of the file badw_regex
232 but in a much more sysop friendly form. The (un)set/badword <word>...
233 commands now update the /spider/local_data/badword.new file in real time
234 without having to mess about with editing files and running load/badword.
235 load/badword still works, but you should now never need it.
236 19Nov22=======================================================================
237 1. "Fix" Badword detection in spots and announces etc.
238 NOTE: setting $DXCommandmode::maxbadcount to 0 (default 3) will disable
239 autologout on swearing. But any (detected) swearing will be logged.
240 User generated swearing will not be propagated, not will incoming
242 2. Fix is_ipaddr so that it accepts more (most?) valid IPV6 addresses that
243 actual real IP addresses that might appear as endpoints.
244 3. Add CTY-3237 prefixes.
245 06Jun22=======================================================================
246 1. Fix show/wcy so that it works even if no wcy broadcasts have been received
248 01Jun22=======================================================================
249 1. Fix show/(v)hfstats commands.
250 2. Add CTY-3221 Prefixes.
251 07Feb22=======================================================================
252 1. (re)add set/seeme and show/seeme commands which don't appear to have
254 03Feb22=======================================================================
255 1. Improve/add the help text for grepdbg and watchdbg.
256 31Jan22=======================================================================
257 1. Set $RBN::respottime to 3 minutes. NOTE change of name from
259 2. Allow callsigns connected to a node with an SSID to get SEEME RBN spots
260 for their base callsigns. So G1TLH-2, G1TLH-7 will get **SEEME** RBN spots
261 if G1TLH is spotted on the RBN system - even is are both connected to the
262 node and G1TLH is not. Each call is unique and each callsign (variation)
263 must have done a set/seeme + set/skimmer. .
264 29Jan22=======================================================================
265 1. Implement RBN set/seeme which displays any passing RBN spots for your
266 callsign in "raw" format.
267 28Jan22=======================================================================
268 1. Add Capabilities Line to logged in users.
269 2. Make absolutely sure that all DB_Files are closed correctly.
270 3. Introduce (un)set/debug rbnchan to control the visualisation of raw RBN
272 25Jan22=======================================================================
273 1. Fixed grepdbg so that it does what -help says it does.
274 24Jan22=======================================================================
275 1. Change Local::pcprot() calling conventions to be the same as the rest of
276 software (see any 'sub handle_nn' function in DXProtHandle.pm.
277 2. Corrected some interpolations in Messages.
278 3. Tried to make users file deletes and updates more stable.
279 22Jan22=======================================================================
280 1. Refine spot display to retain the ':' and also reduce the likelyhood of
281 of misalignment by using the available space in the 39 characters more
282 intelligently. This is WIP.
283 21Jan22=======================================================================
284 1. Fix version tracking in PC92
285 2. Bring the major parts of master and mojo together to make maintenance a
286 bit less challenging. This does add anything extra to mojo, but it's still
288 18Jan22=======================================================================
289 1. fix (un)set/registered.
290 09Jan22=======================================================================
291 1. Add the New Year CTY-3201 prefix data.
292 08Jan22=======================================================================
293 1. I don't think there are any more warnings...
294 06Jan22=======================================================================
295 1. Fix the last of any frequent warnings caused by yesterday's modifications.
296 05Jan22=======================================================================
297 1. Mark nodes that send PC92 K records as spider. These will include VE7CC
298 nodes. NOTE: there appear to be user records marked as user or other sorts
299 of node, which (now) are actually spider (compatible) nodes and will be
301 2. Adjust nodes currently marked as spider nodes, but are sending versions
302 not in the spider range of versions on PC92 A records as AK1A.
303 3. Try to undo some damage where users have been autocreated with similar
304 attributes as nodes (locked out with privilege set to 1). This will
305 slowly fix this problem over time, but see item 4 for a 'big bang'
307 4. It has come to my attention that there are a large number of users (of
308 all sorts) that have incompatible SSIDs. See 03Jan22/4 for details.
310 These are now being scrubbed out of the users file and also will present
311 as their normalised selves. If a -0* SSID is encountered then, if the
312 normalised version of that call is not present, it will be renamed to
313 that normalised call. If the normalised version of that user record is
314 already present, the un-normalised user record (-0*) will be removed.
315 5. Make export_users do a batch clean (as in 3. above) and also get rid of
316 (default) 12+ year old unaccessed user records and (default) 2+ year old
317 "empty" records (with no qra/latlog/qth or handle).
319 NOTE: if you do an manual export_users (as opposed to the automatic one
320 done once a week), do not be alarmed by the number of old (i.e. more than
321 12 years old) callsigns that it will get rid of. In my case it was about
322 ~2/5th of the users file. Still left me with over 100,000 "active" users.
324 In you are a bit twitchy about this, the code will copy the current
325 user_json and user_json.ooooo to user_json.keep and user_json.backstop
326 respectively. These files will never be overwritten unless you remove one
327 or both, when they will be regenerated on the next export_user.
328 04Jan22=======================================================================
329 1. Fix issue in the RBN (and probably other places) with callsigns that
330 contain trailing / in callsigns like: OH0K/6, K2PO/7 etc.
331 2. Regard strange callsigns like DR4W-HB (seen in skimmer spots) as invalid.
332 This *should be* something like HB9/DR4W or (spit) DR4W/HB9.
333 3. Fix the (probably) spurious locking out of users that are unknown to this
334 node, that come in from other nodes. These create new user records which
335 where then automatically locked.
336 03Jan22=======================================================================
337 1. Allow overrides (on modern versions of perl) with things in DXVars.pm, such
338 $clusterport. This is really only of use for people trying to run more than
339 one instance of DXSpider on the same machine.
340 2. Fix who command to make RBN connections as RBN and not USER.
341 3. Prevent other nodes claiming that $myalias or $mycall is a different type
342 (user or node) from changing our route table and thence the user type.
343 4. Normalise callsigns of incoming connections to G1TST if G1TST-0 or G1TST-00
344 amd G1TST-2 if G1TST-02. There are 800+ instances of callsigns with extra
345 0 characters in the SSID in my users file. Allow SSIDs up to 99.
346 02Jan22=======================================================================
347 1. Fix dx bug introduced to handle dx by ip <ipaddr> for webclusters.
348 2. Remove _add_thingy dbg message from general view.
349 3. Increase sh/ann cache to 130 to cope with some client programs' profligate
350 need to fill their users' screens with needless erm... data.
351 01Jan22=======================================================================
352 1. Fixed missing ';' in spoof
353 30Dec21=======================================================================
354 1. Try to fix (nuke) tabs in comment field.
355 28Dec21=======================================================================
356 1. Fix issues with wwv & wcy updates into the cache.
357 2. Add a simple sh/announce cache to stop spawning when used (especially) in
359 27Dec21=======================================================================
360 1. Fix "kwalitee control" issue in /spider/cmd/dx.pl.
361 2. Make sh/wcy and sh/wwv cacheble for simple queries.
362 3. Fix set/nodxxxxxx etc.
363 22Dec21=======================================================================
364 1. Add the possibility to do "sender verify" that spots (and later on, other
365 things like announce etc) are coming from spotters that exist on the node
366 that the PC11/61 says it does. At the moment, this is advisory as many
367 users seem to be on web clusters and many of them do not send PC61 and also
368 don't update the node's routing tables that normal node usage would do.
369 2. Prioritise PC61 spots over PC11 spots wherever possible. Also promote PC11
370 spots to PC61 where the spotter's IP is known.
371 3. Add a shell script "perlbrew-dxspider" that can be used for starting the
372 node when using perlbrew (i.e. more modern perls) on older distros such
374 4. Allow to "dx by <spotter> ip <ip address> <qrg> <spot call> <comment>.
375 This is added as a convenience measure for webcluster authors while waiting
376 for the internal websocket interface (or because they cannot use that).
377 This can only be used by suitably privileged users.
378 This likely to be a temporary measure and will be immediately withdrawn if
379 there is any sign of abuse.
380 11Dec21=======================================================================
381 1. Removed dependency on perl Git package.
382 2. Force code to change directory to $DXSPIDER_ROOT || '/spider'. Also force
383 git -C $root describe.
384 3. Change git commands AGAIN to work on old perls (which mojo won't work on,
385 but it makes my life easier).
386 4. Change version strings to include the perl version in use.
387 10Dec21=======================================================================
388 1. Fix the output of set/dxgrid, set/usstate and set/dxcq or set/dxitu to how
389 it was always supposed to be since 2003.
390 09Dec21=======================================================================
391 1. Moved isregistered to DXChannel for safety...
392 08Dec21=======================================================================
393 1. Get to the bottom of why ssid'd calls were using the base call's
394 credentials. This should now work as expected.
395 06Dec21=======================================================================
396 1. Improve console.pl scrolling. Split long lines (eg on announcements.
397 04Dec21=======================================================================
398 1. Fix illogicalities in USDB creations and make sure that O_CREAT on tie does
399 NOT encounter an existing file to barf about. Even though it shouldn't.
400 Thanks Howard WB3FFV.
401 2. Fixed a typo in show/registered that prevents a list of callsigns being
402 searched for. Got rid of some over complex code. Thanks Fabrizio iZ0UIN.
403 3. Fix long line wrapping in console.pl
404 03Dec21=======================================================================
405 1. Move motd and issue files to local_data if not already there.
406 30Nov21=======================================================================
407 1. Fix sh/dx with callsigns that have /p or VE/G1TLH in them.
408 2. Add unset/ak1a, unset/arcluster aliases and some minimal help for UNSET/
409 SPIDER, NODE, ARCLUSTER, AKIA and also SET/USER.
410 26Nov21=======================================================================
411 1. *Really* change spot display format and sh/dx format "back the way they
412 were. But They won't stay that way for long!!!! There are four (yes, count
413 them) completely unused spaces at the end of the line!!!!
414 25Nov21=======================================================================
415 1. Restored spot format back to the way it was.
416 2. Added CTY-3127 prefixes
417 24Nov21=======================================================================
418 1. Make /spider/perl/create_sysop.pl work on a base git cloned tree.
419 2. Add /spider/local /spider/local_cmd /spider/local_data to git.
420 3. Make user supplied console width (set/width) sticky.
421 19Nov21=======================================================================
422 1. Add the ability of console.pl to resize and have dx spots also resize so
423 that the comment field's size will increase accordingly. Sh/dx amd sh/mydx
424 also work similarly. If you make the console width smaller or wider then
425 spots already on the screen will not resize.
426 2. For client programs that parse the output (why? use set/ve7cc to get more
427 easily machine parsed output), a new command "set/width <width>" is
429 18Nov21=======================================================================
430 1. Add a dx spot cache which will store 2 days worth (configurable) of spots.
431 This is then used by the vast majority of simple sh/dx queries without
432 using a sub process. A simple sh/dx is any sh/dx that does not have an
433 "expression" such as "sh/dx g1tlh". So "sh/dx", "sh/dx 200", "sh/mydx" will
434 always run in the main program via the cache. Certain client programs (no
435 names, no pack drill) will notice the difference immediately. It's also a
437 2. set/badspotter or set/badnode will work for RBN input.
438 3. RBN input with invalid QRGs will be dropped with a nice friendly message
439 rather than a scary exception message about multiplication thrown by one
440 of the libraries that I use.
441 4. Added CTY-3126 prefixes.
442 5. Silently ignore self spotting below 1240000Khz (change
443 $Spot::minselfspot to 0 to disable or some other freq in Khz). NOTE this
444 will appear as a spot to the spotter's feed, but will not be passed on.
445 15Jul21=======================================================================
446 1. Fix long standing bug in crontabs that commands with " rather than ' around
447 strings could cause those commands not to work.
448 2. Add CTY 3117 prefixes.
449 15Mar21=======================================================================
450 1. Fix DXUtil::localdata so that it does actually prefer the latest version
451 of a file regardless of whether it is in /spider/data or /spider/localdata.
452 2. Add CTY-3105 prefixes.
453 05Mar21=======================================================================
454 1. Fix DXCron::spawn_cmd so that more than one spawn_cmd can be active at a
455 time. This affects many nodes where lots of regular spawn_cmds happen at
456 a time and this prevented crucial things like 'start_connect' from working!
457 2. Sort user lockout issues to cope with all likely scenarios - including
458 "phantom" SSID working.
459 3. Fix "close_gracefully" error messages which are useless, but benign. These
460 happen (mainly) when outgoing connects timeout.
461 24Feb21=======================================================================
462 1. modify RBN timing arrangements
464 There are two new twiddle pots:
466 $limbotime (default 5*60 secs) which allows potential spots to
467 hang around longer to allow $minqual *different* skimmers to spot
468 them. At which point they are emitted. This is to catch the "slow
469 burning" spots where a call is spotted by different skimmers but
470 separated in time by more than $dwelltime - in fact maybe by
473 $maxqual (default 9 skimmers) which short circuits the normal
474 hard maximum $quality (9 skimmer spots) and $dwelltime (10secs)
475 to allow a spot that has $maxqual *different* skimmers (usually
476 as the result of a burst from the RBN) to defeat $dwelltime and
477 be emitted the moment that condition is satisfied. There maybe
478 a better name for this.
479 21Feb21=======================================================================
480 1. add data section on 160m in bands.pl.
481 07Sep20=======================================================================
482 1, Change interface to watchdbg & grepdbg slightly so that multiple search
483 regexes are ANDed rather than ORed together. ORing is easily achieved
484 already by the usual regex pattern 'PATT..|PATT..|..' whereas ANDing could
485 not be done as easily without resorting lots of 'PATT.*PATH' things which
486 would not necessarily get what was wanted.
487 2. Make sure that the pc92 C record only contains nodes and users and not
488 other extranoeus things like skimmers...
489 15Aug20=======================================================================
490 1. Simplify the skimmer scoring mechanism.
491 13Aug20=======================================================================
492 1. Improve the (displayed) RBN frequency weighting the skimmers' frequencies
493 w.r.t majority view on each spot. Any skimmer that disagrees with a
494 gets docked a 'point' from their 'good' score (if any) and have a 'point'
495 added to their 'bad' score. This score is then taked into account during
496 the 'choosing the real frequency' process. If a skimmer agrees with the
497 majority the process is reversed. To see this in action: set/deb rbnskim
498 06Aug20=======================================================================
499 1, Add CTY-3013 Prefixes
500 2. Make RBN more efficient. Start the process of skimmer node performance
501 caching. Add minimum quality allowed (at 2), which will be overrideable.
502 The format of the rbn_cache has changed and so a full restart will occur.
503 3. Collect channel input/output stats. New command: show/data_stats to show
505 4. Add local::lib qw{/spider/perl5lib} to store cpanm loaded modules just for
506 DXSpider. This is done so that updates needed by future changes can be done
507 as the sysop user and doesn't have to be done as root. This paves the way
508 for UPDATE.pl which will pull down new modules that it needs automatically.
509 When it's written, which will be soon.
510 29Jul20=======================================================================
511 1. Add show/rbn command that allows one to see who is online and configured
512 for RBN. See help sh/rbn for details.
513 2. Fixed issue with set/ve7cc mode adding unwanted newlines to output.
514 3. Attempted to make the QRG normalisation more "intelligent". This would be
515 sooooooooo much easier if skimmers were calibrated more accurately.
516 4. Added CTY-3012 prefixes.
517 23Jul20=======================================================================
518 1. fix Filtering so that it does less of what it was doing badly, thus
519 the perl interpreter to do more of the work. Which means you *should* be
520 able to define more or less any allowable operation for that type of
521 filter. Which is a complicated way of saying: you can now use brackets.
522 2. Regex expressions now appear as readable text in sh/filter.
523 3. Make the RBN status file JSON, rather than DD format. In future versions
524 it will also be VERSIONed to enable more features to be added
526 4. Add show/rbn command to allow sysops to see who is using rbn.
527 11Jul20=======================================================================
528 1. Fix (embarrassing) gratuitous '#'s in bands.pl
529 2. IMPORTANT: certain PC92 strings can crash DXSpider if the nologchan debug
530 category is set (which reduces debug files to sizes that non-developers can
531 reasonably store (especially during big contests)),
532 10Jul20=======================================================================
533 1. Fix console.pl permissions problem when running as another user not in
534 debug mode. Console.pl WILL NOT WORK in debug mode unless it is running
536 08Jul20=======================================================================
537 1. "Finish" the RBN system :-)
538 2. This includes enabling the coarse selection of spot modes using set/wantrbn
539 with arguments like 'set/wantrbn cw beacon'. This limits your output to
540 just CW, BCN and DXF modes.
541 3. The RBN spot is now cached. With a following wind, this means that even a
542 node restart, done in a timely fashion (within a few minutes) will not
543 cause a "cache warmup" delay for users on a restart.
544 4. Added the "full fat" set/wantrbn command and aliased it to 'set/skimmer'.
545 I use both terms (whenever I remembered) in the help text.
546 5. Help text has been written.
547 6. The UPGRADE.mojo file has been tweeked to point out the users file format
549 7. Merge in users.v3j to the mojo branch.
550 8. Add CTY-3011 prefixes.
551 07Jul20=======================================================================
552 1. Fix show/node command.
553 2. Fix show/cluster command to take into account the presence of skimmer nodes
554 which are a new category of thing which is neither a node nor a user.
555 06Jul20=======================================================================
556 1. Add RBN.mojo with information of the RBN capabilities of DXSpider.
557 05Jul20=======================================================================
559 2. Add HAPROXY "real ip" type 1 handling for incoming connections.
560 04Jul20=======================================================================
561 1. Give console.pl (or dx) a good going over with a bog brush to *finally*
562 (cough) make it work correctly with a full 80 column window (and not just
563 to a width of 79 really). Also fix scrolling.
564 28Jun20=======================================================================
565 1. Merge mojo with users.v3j to remove all vestages of Storable from DXSpider
566 in an effort to make the whole storage thing more reliable (and also a
567 bit faster). The user file will be auto-upgraded on restart. This may take
568 up to 20 seconds on slower hardware (and maybe a bit longer on huge user
569 files). On my 180,000 odd users, on my hardware, it takes 4 seconds.
570 2. The DXQSL system storage is also upgraded, Please run
571 /spider/perl/create_dxqsl.pl in a spare shell. This will recreate the
572 dxqsl.v1j file. Run 'load/dxqsl' in the console to activate it.
573 17Jun20=======================================================================
574 1. Change the Spot file reading mechanism back to the default of using 'tac'.
575 08Jun20=======================================================================
576 1. Fix show/mydx (lack of) filtering bug.
577 2. Add qra locator to prefix_data.pl.
578 3. Add 4 digit qra square for spotted callsign if show/dxgrid is enabled.
579 4. Fix general filtering bug where erroneous input causes crashing.
580 03Jun20=======================================================================
581 1. Make sure that all possible regexes get passed across to the search engine.
582 2. Fix out of order logging on sh/log queries spanning more than one month.
583 3. Do not read backwards on sh/dx, reading forwards seems a 1/3 quicker.
584 4. Add <ms>, <tr> and <es> shortcuts to sh/dx (e.g sh/dx <tr> on 2m).
585 02Jun20=======================================================================
586 1. Fix the small whoopsie in sh/dx.
587 01Jun20=======================================================================
588 1. Fix sh/dx iota and qra. This completes the conversion of sh/dx's limited
589 "old style" parsing to using Filter style parsing with something that
590 allows expressions include brackets ( and ) as well as the 'not' keyword.
591 NOTE: the precedence rules are the same as perl's '!', '||' and '&&'
593 31May20=======================================================================
594 1. Improve links command layout slightly.
595 2. Issue an *accurate* UPGRADE.mojo with all the new packages included!
596 3. Fix issue with sh/dx
597 30May20=======================================================================
598 1. Fix sh/dx! It appears that there is a long standing problem with sh/dx not
599 actually return all the answers it should. I have also had a request to
600 allow / enable the "not" keyword (just like the filtering system dones).
602 Now this was one of the earliest modules that I wrote and it took quite
603 a bit of work to tease out the important bits and then use the Filter
604 module (as in acc/spot) to generate the sh/dx filtering expressions. This
605 seems to have been done.
607 NB This will likely not work if you are using a SQL backend to do sh/dx
608 commands. This was never actually an official feature. It is now
610 29May20=======================================================================
611 1. Please install Math::Round and Data::Structure::Util. Instructions are
612 available in UPGRADE.mojo.
613 2. ** Withdrawn ** user file format change to json not yet committed.
614 20May20=======================================================================
615 1. Backport convert-users-v3-to-v4.pl to allow creation of the new json
616 formatted *text* based user file from the old v3 DB_File and Storable
617 version. This can be done either online (with the node running) or offline
618 with the node stopped. This is in preparation for the next update of the
619 mojo branch. Running this program just *BEFORE* doing your next update of
620 the mojo branch *should* ensure a seemless transition to the Storable &
621 DB_File free version of the users file.
622 2. Show git branch in show/version.
623 3. Add CTY-3010 changes.
624 17May20=======================================================================
625 1. Backport DXSubprocess to change serialisations.
626 Currently the internals of Mojo::IOLoop::Subprocess defaults to
627 using Storeable as its cross-process argument and data serialisaion
628 method. It can use others. This update reverts back to the
629 original ForkCall method of using JSON.
630 10May20=======================================================================
631 1. Added basic changes so that users *could* have multiple connections to the
632 same node if it is allowed. This is work in progress and is there to see
633 if it deals with some networking problems encountered on very high volume
634 sites which can see more than 1000 users (although the problems can occur
635 with many hundreds or by the practices of certain ISPs). More information
636 will be forthcoming if I get to the bottom of what's REALLY going on and
637 whether this is (or maybe just one part of) the solution. It won't be
638 ready for general use until then.
639 2. Fixed the script import error reported by Joaquin (EA3CV?), by the simple
640 expedient of restoring the version from the master branch.
641 09May20=======================================================================
642 1. Show the route by which this PCxx came in progress debugging reports. In
643 some other words: the spot/wwv/wcy/ann message arrived first from this
645 2. Improve progress WWV & WCY messages.
646 3. Stop random node isolations (at least in one place)
647 08May20=======================================================================
648 1. Tidy up routing table
649 2. Add new argument to show/version (ALL or list of regexes) that allow you
650 to see the version and build nos of all nodes on the system.
651 07May20=======================================================================
652 1. Revert changes made since 25Apr concerning IP address reconciliation.
653 25Apr20=======================================================================
654 1. Add maximum no of users on node to show/cluster.
655 2. Add ability to show last n lines of debugging ring buffer.
656 3. Remove redundant wpxloc.dat file.
657 24Apr20=======================================================================
658 1. Add 'progress' debugging for showing that stuff is happening in nologchan
659 a.k.a ringbuffer only mode.
660 2. Fix grepdbg so that no regex argument simply lists the file.
661 3. Add CTY-3008 prefixes.
662 22Apr20=======================================================================
663 1. Fix the module search path in update_sysop.pl
664 2. Add latest prefixes CTY-3007
665 3. Fix unset/startup command. This will only work for users' start up scripts
666 things like user_default or startup must be edited or removed by hand.
667 21Apr20=======================================================================
668 1. Finally fix the "actually tranmit" any output (like from 'logout' files)
669 to users before disconnecting. This also means that disconnecting nodes
670 now receive the (totally redundant, but hey) PC39 reason for disconnection.
671 20Apr20=======================================================================
672 1. Speed up sh/log (including chat, rcmd, ann etc) that search the system
673 log files, by removing a completely redundant subsystem and also leveraging
674 the core operating system utility 'tac', if it's available.
675 19Apr20=======================================================================
676 1. The long haul that is the mojo branch has started up again. It's something
677 to do during this lockdown.
678 2. The problems and instabilities around running commands that worked in
679 forked processes, when used other than by normally logged in users (e.g.
680 in the local crontab), have been fixed.
681 3. If a /spider/local_data/logout file is present then its contents will be
682 sent to the user on logout.
683 4. Add the ability to sh/dx origin or ip (address).
684 5. Retire the use of the deprecated Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall in favour of using
685 the supported equivalent in Mojolicious 7.26 and above. Which means you
686 will need to upgrade Mojo to at least the version. The current version is
687 8.36 and is known to work.
688 10Sep19=======================================================================
689 1. Improve DXSql database filtering to exclude most via <locator> type
691 2. Add CTY-2913 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
692 14Jul18=======================================================================
693 1. Add CTY-2808 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
694 16Jun18=======================================================================
695 1. add more modes to rbn.pl
696 23Jan18=======================================================================
697 1. Add CTY-2802 prefixes
698 27Oct17=======================================================================
699 1. Get correct hostname support and privilege levels on web connects.
700 26Oct17=======================================================================
701 1. Start (serious) work on web interface. Make the necessary changes to allow
702 a local webserver to connect and get its own style of messages.
703 11Aug17=======================================================================
704 1. Add default systemd service file file
705 10Aug17=======================================================================
706 1. check for disconnecting flag in more places
707 31Jul17=======================================================================
708 1. Fixed create_usdb.pl path specifications
709 2. add CTY-2708 prefixes
710 12May17=======================================================================
711 1. Fix sh/425 (mostly)
712 2. Add CTY-2706 prefixes
713 05May17=======================================================================
714 1. Add CTY-2705 prefixes
715 04Apr17=======================================================================
716 1. Add CTY-2704 prefixes
717 17Mar17=======================================================================
718 1. Add latest cty.dat & wpxloc.raw
719 21Feb17=======================================================================
720 1. Fix sh/dx on 14050 so that it does what one expects.
721 2. Add CTY-2702 prefixes
722 15Feb17=======================================================================
723 1. Update UPGRADE.mojo a bit
724 2. Add local::lib so that it can be used for non-root installations.
725 09Jan17=======================================================================
726 1. Fix mojo branch clean install issues (failing to find $main::data et al)
727 02Jan17=======================================================================
728 1. Add CTY-2615 prefixes
729 2. Add rbn.pl - an experimental rbn deduplicating spot filter.
730 26Dec16=======================================================================
731 1. Fix some possible routes to $myalias callsigns becoming nodes.
732 22Nov16=======================================================================
733 1. Add CTY-2614 prefixes
734 21Nov16=======================================================================
735 1. Add CTY-2613 prefixes
736 17Nov16=======================================================================
737 1. Change method (again) of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl. Split out
738 main process from children and display each separately.
739 16Nov16=======================================================================
740 1. Change method of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl
741 18Aug16=======================================================================
743 2. put back msg total in & total out for mrtg and background mrtg
744 3. add dxcc == ADIF country code.
745 16Aug16=======================================================================
746 1. Mega change to push all local data in $root/local_data and where there
747 is duplication with system data (still in $root/data) then use whichever
748 is newer. This will move stuff (permanently) like spots and other DXLog
749 files to local_data as well as the userfile, DX QSL file and usdb stuff.
750 25Jul16=======================================================================
751 1. Add some timing stats to cmd spawn_cmd.
752 08Jul16=======================================================================
753 1. Add latest wpxloc.raw
755 28Mar16=======================================================================
756 1. Fix get/keps.pl so that it does the right fetch
757 25Mar16=======================================================================
758 1. Rework DXCron::spawn command to use Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall
759 04Jan16=======================================================================
760 1. Add CTY-2601 prefix file
761 02Jan16=======================================================================
762 1. fix new URL for sh/425 command
763 30Dec15=======================================================================
764 1. Add CTY-2516 prefix file
765 2. Try to stop and also reset node call user records back to 'S'
766 3. Fix multiple on_disc events in AsyncMsg.pm
767 02Jun15=======================================================================
768 1. Extend regex for quit to allow other commands starting in 'q'.
769 2. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
770 26May15=======================================================================
771 1. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
772 01Mar15=======================================================================
773 1. Add CTY-2503 prefix file
774 13Feb15=======================================================================
775 1. Fix problem with sh/dx <call> if people are logging spots to a SQL database
776 3. Added CTY-2502 prefixes.
777 3. My late father would have been 102 today.
778 27Nov14=======================================================================
779 1. Add CTY-2415 prefix list
780 25Nov14=======================================================================
781 1. Add CTY-2414 prefix list
782 21Nov14=======================================================================
783 1. Add CTY-2413 prefix list
784 21Oct14=======================================================================
785 1. Add CTY-2011 prefixes
786 16Sep14=======================================================================
787 1. Add CTY2410 wpxloc.raw + cty.dat
788 2. remove autoflush from logs
789 16Sep14=======================================================================
790 1. Fix (now) missing error_handler
791 30Aug14=======================================================================
792 1. add CTY-2409 prefixes
793 2. add new wpxloc.raw
794 19Jul14=======================================================================
795 1. Use JSON::XS for ForkCall serialisation in DXCommandmode.pm
796 19Jun14=======================================================================
797 1. Fix EOF detection of incoming nodes.
798 2. Attempt to autogenerate Version.pm with *correct* values (instead of the
799 the git id of the previous commit). Oh, and do it on every commit or pull.
800 17Jun14=======================================================================
801 1. Add CTY2405 prefix changes
802 2. Arrange for all file searching routines based on sh/dx or sh/log to be
803 non-blocking. This should allow incoming and outgoing protocol to
804 continue flowing when such a command is run.
805 3. Added some usable code to show/wx (finally).
806 4. Make stats cmds (sh/v?hfstats, sh/v?hftable) non-blocking.
807 5. Make sh/isolate, sh/registered, sh/lockout non-blocking.
808 6. Fix shutdown command.
809 16Jun14=======================================================================
810 1. Get AsyncMsg working for HTTP type ephemeral connections
811 21Apr14=======================================================================
812 1. Add CTY-2405 prefix list
813 08Mar14=======================================================================
814 1. Add newer version of wpxloc.raw with some missing prefixes added.
815 07Mar14=======================================================================
816 1. Add new version of wpxloc.raw
817 2. Fix a small crash with Spot::dup
818 12Jan14=======================================================================
819 1. Fix minor issue with dx command when used in a script, as found by
821 2. Fix (rather serious) error in import_cmd that did not reset callsigns
822 correctly in $main::me.
823 30Dec13=======================================================================
824 1. Add CTY2312 prefix changes
825 19Nov13=======================================================================
826 1. Add CTY2311 Prefix changes - needed for CQWW 2013
827 09Oct13=======================================================================
828 1. Add CTY2310 prefix changes
829 13Sep13=======================================================================
830 1. Added CTY2309 prefix data, together with its associated wpxloc.raw file.
831 10Sep13=======================================================================
832 1. Add the get/keps command, which allows a sysop to get the latest AMSAT
833 keplarian elements either on demand or periodically in the crontab.
834 10Sep13=======================================================================
835 1. Fix sh/time such that no arguments print details for the caller.
836 09Sep13=======================================================================
837 1. Make all the Net::Telnet based commands (sh/425, sh/contest, sh/db0sdx,
838 sh/wm7d, sh/ik3qar) asynchronous, so that they no longer pause the node
839 while they go off and query the internet for results.
840 06Sep13=======================================================================
841 1. Fixed sh/contest so that it works again. How it ever worked at all is
842 a bit of a mystery. Now possible to type sh/cont dec or sh/cont dec 2013
843 (with month and year in any order). Please comment out any $contest_host
844 or $contest_url variables you may have in /spider/local/Internet.pm (if
845 you have one, that is). It will not work with the previous values.
846 2. Added CTY2308 prefix changes.
847 3. Added (back) internal function support inside commands. This allows
848 commands to create functions inside the <cmd_name>.pl files. There are
849 now also standard function names that can do special things.
850 24Jul13=======================================================================
851 1. Alter default node address in client.c from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1".
852 21Jul13=======================================================================
853 1. Fix Msg.pm to allow IPV6 addresses again (how did it ever work?).
854 2. Add latest CTY2307 prefix changes.
855 3. Other changes including (some) more prefix files, 4mm band data and
857 4. Add ip address in links.pl
858 31May12=======================================================================
859 1. Added CTY2210 prefix changes
860 29May12=======================================================================
861 1. Added CTY2209 prefix changes
862 10Apr12=======================================================================
863 1. Added DXSql/Pg postgres Spot collection interface from Wijnand PD0MZ.
864 2. Add CTY2206 prefix changes
865 13Mar12=======================================================================
866 1. add CTY2204 prefix changes + new wpxloc.raw
867 12Mar12=======================================================================
868 1. Check database operations on MySQL/SQlite3.
869 2. Add ipaddr field to spot table if not present.
870 3. Add ipaddr field from PC61 to database stored spots.
871 09Mar12=======================================================================
872 1. Try to trap unblessed references on receipt of PC34s
873 15Feb12=======================================================================
874 1. Add CTY2202 changes
875 25Jan12=======================================================================
876 1. Add CTY2201 changes
877 21Dec11=======================================================================
878 1. Add CTY2118 changes
879 20Dec11=======================================================================
880 1. fix strange startup repeating lockfile issue where (somehow) there is an
881 empty (but existing) lockfile, from GB7YDX.
882 29Nov11=======================================================================
883 1. fix shutdown() in Msg.pm
884 2. Add CTY2117 changes
885 05Nov11=======================================================================
886 1. Add CTY2116 changes
887 04Nov11=======================================================================
888 1. Add CTY2115 changes
889 20Oct11=======================================================================
890 1. Add CTY2113 Changes
891 02Oct11=======================================================================
892 1. change 40m bandplan after some input from Martin, ik2rmz
893 2. Add CTY2112 changes
894 25Jul11=======================================================================
895 1. add CTY2109 changes + wpxloc.raw for ST0
896 2. add CTY2110 changes
897 24May11=======================================================================
898 1. Add CTY-2108 prefixes
899 04Apr11=======================================================================
900 1. After being poked by Brendan EI6IZ, add outgoing IPV6 connect() handling
901 29Mar11=======================================================================
902 1. Add CTY-2106 prefixes
903 16Mar11=======================================================================
904 1. Add CTY-2105 prefixes
905 10Mar11=======================================================================
906 1. Add CTY-2104 prefixes
907 01Mar11=======================================================================
908 1. Add CTY-2103 prefixes
909 31Oct10=======================================================================
910 1. Increase PC92 A/D "slug" time to 5 minutes.
911 29Oct10=======================================================================
912 1. Allow Jim AD1C to track the changes to the cluster in realtime using the
913 debug system (set/debug cluster).
914 27Oct10=======================================================================
915 1. fix chat problem introduced in the last update
916 25Oct10=======================================================================
917 1. Drop PC12s purporting to originate at nodes that do PC9x (suggestion from
919 2. Increase default dup age for announces from 5 -> 18 hours.
920 3. add CTY 2009 cty.dat data.
921 4. Stop downgrading and sending CHAT messages on PC12 groups as it appears
922 that this is yet another "standard" that isn't universally understood.
923 23Oct10=======================================================================
924 1. add dbexport command to allow the export of ak1a style databases to a
926 2. add dxqsl_import and dxqsl_export commands to allow the import and export
927 of sh/dxsql qsl manager data extracted from spots as they pass through.
928 04Oct10=======================================================================
929 1. add CTY-2007 prefix list
930 04Oct10=======================================================================
931 1. incorporated the major prefix release CTY-2006 from Jim AD1C
932 17Jun10=======================================================================
933 1. Add ip address to dxspots and default to PC61 output to dxspider nodes.
934 2. Allow 4 letter callsign portions again.
935 16Jun10=======================================================================
936 1. Increase default ephemeral dupe time for PC41 and such like lines.
937 2. Include CTY-2004 updates.
938 08Apr10=======================================================================
939 1. Modify console.pl so that it works in a Windows Cmd window. Get a Windows
940 Curses ppd from: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Curses.
941 18Mar10=======================================================================
942 1. Make privilege 0 "stick" if set on nodes
943 13Mar10=======================================================================
944 1. try to fix AGW crashes caused by peerhost looking at the wrong thing.
945 2. Add more ax25 fixes for peerhost
946 03Mar10=======================================================================
947 1. add IP addresses to connecting PC92 A addresses and log them
948 2. add CTY-2002 prefixes
949 27Nov09=======================================================================
950 1. Add 500khz band as suggested by Béla, HA5DI.
951 2. Add CTY-1923 prefixes
952 26Nov09=======================================================================
953 1. add ip address to PC92 A records
954 25Nov09=======================================================================
955 1. Change sh/qrz to use the xml interface. You will have to subscribe to
956 the xml interface - see http://www.qrz.com/XML/index.html for more info.
957 2. Remove (bodged) forced encoding to iso-8859 on incoming text. More
958 subtle handling will be required.
959 3. Add CTY-1922 prefixes
960 14Nov09=======================================================================
961 1. Add CTY-1921 prefixes
962 2. allow -SSID values on set/badnode
963 27Aug09=======================================================================
964 1. Add CTY-1913 prefixes
965 2. Limit Route::config to 10 levels (as default)
966 08Jul09=======================================================================
967 1. Add CTY-1912 prefixes
968 26Jun09=======================================================================
969 1. Add CTY-1911 prefixes
970 14Jun09=======================================================================
971 1. Add CTY-1910 prefixes
972 04Jun09=======================================================================
973 1. removed warnings from debug.c from the C Client.
974 2. Add CTY-1909 prefixes
975 02Jun09=======================================================================
976 1. Add CTY-1908 prefixes
977 29May09=======================================================================
978 1. Add CTY-1907 prefixes
979 19May09=======================================================================
980 1. Add CTY-1905 prefixes
981 15May09=======================================================================
982 1. Add CTY-1904 prefixes
983 2. Accommodate "official" git command syntax in issue.pl
984 29Dec08=======================================================================
985 1. Add show/motd command as requested by Ian G0VGS.
986 2. add CTY-1817 prefixes
987 17Nov08=======================================================================
988 1. Fix sh/425 to work with new server
989 2. add CTY-1814 prefixes
990 21Oct08=======================================================================
991 1. Add CTY-1811 prefixes
992 04Oct08=======================================================================
993 1. set $main::maxconnect_node = 0 as default. It's causing too much aggro..
994 02Oct08=======================================================================
995 1. Add set/maxconnect command to allow the defaults to be overridden for
996 individual users/nodes.
997 2. Make sure that the check really is for incoming connections only...
998 01Oct08=======================================================================
999 1. added CTY-1809 prefix data
1000 2. added new config variables to allow an incoming users to have (as default)
1001 up to 2 other connections to other nodes and incoming nodes up to 8 other
1002 parents. Note that you can switch off this behaviour by setting
1003 $main::maxconnect_user or $main::maxconnect_node = 0 (or set them to whatever
1005 28Jun08=======================================================================
1006 1. Made buddies work again on PC92.
1007 26Jun08=======================================================================
1008 1. added show/ik3qar command by Leo IZ5FSA. See comments in perl/Internet.pm
1009 for setup instructions (note that you will have to copy these lines to
1010 local/Internet.pm before it will work).
1011 2. Send talks to every node a user is logged onto.
1012 24Jun08=======================================================================
1013 1. Change the route finding algorithm completely. No more recursion. No more
1014 tree searching. It now gives you answers even on a partial cluster map. Oh
1015 and the answers are correct, instead on completely random.
1016 2. Put back (maybe some of) US State handling.
1017 3. Add CTY-1806 prefix data
1018 28May08=======================================================================
1019 1. remove "recursion limit" message from Route.pm
1020 28May08=======================================================================
1021 1. Improve the detection of short exact callsigns that are out of prefix area
1022 (eg K7A) (thank you FCC).
1023 2. Improve long line handling on console.pl
1024 3. Add CTY-1805 cty.dat
1025 26May08=======================================================================
1026 1. Put a hard limit on the depth of searching for routes
1027 2. Add CTY-1804 prefix changes
1028 13May08=======================================================================
1029 1. add disc users|nodes|all so that each of these classes can be disconnected
1030 in one command. From a request by Luigi IK5ZUK.
1031 12May08=======================================================================
1032 1. add 'exact' keyword on sh/dx to allow for an exact match to a callsign.
1033 From a request by Robert HB9DZA.
1034 10May08=======================================================================
1035 1. add some privileges to (un)set/bad* and show/bad* commands. Thanks to
1036 Mauro IV3SCP for pointing this out to me.
1037 06May08=======================================================================
1038 1. Finally made the incompatible change of changing DXUser->get* to
1039 DXUser::get*. This will break any third party addons or commands use these
1041 2. Change version to 1.55
1042 3. Drop the lower limit of 60m to 5100 after Dave G7RAU pointed out usage.
1043 (see http://www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=60)
1044 22Apr08=======================================================================
1045 1. Added two Xmas Is calls.
1046 15Apr08=======================================================================
1047 1. added CTY-1803 changes
1048 25Mar08=======================================================================
1049 1. Include some cty.day changes
1050 19Mar08=======================================================================
1051 1. Include CTY-1802 cty.dat changes from Jim AD1C
1052 29Feb08=======================================================================
1053 1. Fix crash on rcmd of an invalid command.
1054 25Feb08=======================================================================
1055 1. Arrange for AGWMsg to retry connection either if the AGW engine isn't
1056 loaded on startup or it disappears for some reason and restarts.
1057 19Feb08=======================================================================
1058 1. Added CTY-1801 cty.dat data.
1059 2. Fix problem with entering non-ascii data and then executing commands that
1060 are guessed from the "cleaned up" version of the string. Now if you enter
1061 commands with invalid characters, it will error immediately.
1062 3. fix a problem detecting IPV4 localhost on IPV6 enabled systems.
1063 10Feb08=======================================================================
1064 1. sort sh/node output. Also show more information.
1065 05Feb08=======================================================================
1066 1. Added a Windows only BPQ interface from the man himself: John G8BPQ.
1067 See some instructions in /spider/txt/spiderBPQ_en.txt for how to use it.
1068 07Jan08=======================================================================
1069 1. more changes to cty.dat
1070 07Jan08=======================================================================
1071 1. added TO5FJ to cty.dat (under orders from Jim AD1C :-)
1072 05Jan08=======================================================================
1073 1. Made necessary change to get DXSpider to (seem to) work in perl 5.10
1074 27Dec07=======================================================================
1075 1, added CTY-1711 prefix changes (and new wpxloc.raw) from Jim AD1C.
1076 25Nov07=======================================================================
1077 1. Fix a crash on receiving an rcmd from an new node.
1078 21Nov07=======================================================================
1079 1. Added CTY-1710 prefix changes
1080 19Nov07=======================================================================
1081 1. change MRTG graphs to be based on GMT, not localtime. This allows one to
1082 more easily compare debug data with traffic graphs.
1083 2. Add a create/user command to just add a plain user.
1084 17Nov07=======================================================================
1085 1. Add Local::ann() as requested by Felipe PY1NB.
1086 16Nov07=======================================================================
1087 1. add CTY-1709 prefix changes
1088 2. added extra checking for the time stamp on PC9x sentences. These must now
1089 be within 15 minutes (configurable) of this node's time to be accepted.
1090 3. made show/newc terminal width aware.
1091 24Oct07=======================================================================
1092 1. Added CTY-1708 prefix changes
1093 23Oct07=======================================================================
1094 1. Added CTY-1707 prefix changes
1095 15Oct07=======================================================================
1096 1. prevent PC61 from propagating outside spider boxes.
1097 2. simplify the regex for sh/contest to allow it to work on perl < 5.8.x.
1098 09Oct07=======================================================================
1099 1. Added *VERY* important change to prevent loops on PC9x sentences.
1100 06Oct07=======================================================================
1101 1. added the possibility of having a motd_ax25 especially for sending to
1102 radio connections after a suggestion by Paolo YV1DIG.
1103 05Oct07=======================================================================
1104 1. Handle PC61 from VE1CC clusters as PC11.
1105 01Oct07=======================================================================
1106 1. fix .gtkconsole_data creation bug.
1107 27Sep07=======================================================================
1108 1. Fixed gtkconsole to split out all the windows. See
1109 /spider/gtkconsole/README for installation and usage instructions. This
1110 program will work on both Windows and Linux provided the extra Gtk2 perl
1111 libraries + dependencies are installed. Instructions for getting them are in
1113 25Sep07=======================================================================
1114 1. Fix mrtg command so that it does not require /var/lock (which anyway gets
1115 removed and recreated on boot - and the debianised mrtg does not recognise
1116 that) nor /var/lib/mrtg for the confcache (whatever that is).
1117 24Sep07=======================================================================
1118 1. fix error message on disconnect and, BTW, fix the cause of premature
1119 disconnections in the new PC92 code.
1120 22Sep07=======================================================================
1121 1. fix mrtg script so that it sets LANG='C', in addition, it appears that you
1122 will need to create a /var/lock/mrtg and /var/lib/mrtg directory, both with
1123 chmod 01777 /var/lock/mrtg /var/lib/mrtg. They may already exist but without
1124 the correct permissions.
1125 15Sep07=======================================================================
1126 1. Add *optional* INET6 connectivity. In order to use this you must load
1127 IO::Socket::INET6 and its dependencies from CPAN or get the distro's packaged
1128 versions. I used 'sudo aptitude install libio-socket-inet6-perl' for ubuntu
1129 (which should work for debian as well), for fedora/rpm based systems
1130 'sudo yum install perl-IO-Socket-INET6' or near equiv should work. This has
1131 been done quite simplistically, but it seems to work.
1132 10Sep07=======================================================================
1133 1. Remove warnings for EINPROGRESS etc for Windows perl 5.8.
1134 2. Try to see if using just one lastid is viable in all situations. If it is
1135 then this will cure the talk problem.
1136 20Aug07=======================================================================
1137 1. add cty.dat + wpxloc.raw changes for CTY-1706.
1138 31Jul07=======================================================================
1139 1. extend 60m band slighty and add ssb section.
1140 2. add a new cty.dat (CTY-1705) from Jim AD1C.
1141 27Jul07=======================================================================
1142 1. Added Angel's changes to Messages for Spanish (finally).
1143 25Jul07=======================================================================
1144 1. don't clear out routing tables on shutdown. This should speed that up.
1145 24Jul07=======================================================================
1146 1. Try to target PC93 (the combined talk/ann/chat sentence) better. Prevent
1147 PC12 chat going to non-dxspider and non-ak1a nodes. None of the others seem to
1148 handle it correctly (Lee VE7CC: do you?).
1149 2. a few other tidyups,
1150 see: http://www.dxcluster.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=spider.git
1152 18Jul07=======================================================================
1153 1. Change the meaning of set/isolate. Set/isolate now works in both directions
1154 in that an isolated node will only have its local config remembered and will
1155 only be sent this nodes local config. This is exactly equivalent to both
1156 ends setting set/isolate. If that is already the case then there should be
1157 no noticeable change. Any extra that the far node sends, over and above its
1158 local config will now be ignored.
1159 17Jul07=======================================================================
1160 1. remove dupefile on startup and on ending the node. Add clear/dupefile
1161 command to allow people to do it at runtime as well.
1162 12Jul07=======================================================================
1163 1. Change disconnection code so that nodes that are no longer routable are
1165 2. Add help for sh/band and also allow query of individual band or regions.
1166 11Jul07=======================================================================
1167 1. improve speed of sh/c/n
1168 2. remove all $Id$ strings from cmd tree
1169 09Jul07=======================================================================
1170 1. remove check for PC93 from legacy nodes. This will allow PC10s to be
1171 propagated correctly. Probably.
1172 08Jul07=======================================================================
1173 1. put in a temporary fix to the crashing on incoming PC10 talks, whilst I
1174 try to work out how it is happening.
1175 06Jul07=======================================================================
1176 1. re-arrange id checking so that it is more logical and check that config
1177 records, that can be an hour coming, are not thoughtlessly ignored, thus
1178 causing nodes to time out.
1179 2. Make sure that the 'over midnight' distance calculation actually does what
1181 3. Tart up version number reporting in sh/node.
1182 4. Pass the correct number of parameters in pc93 -> pc12 conversions which
1183 should stop returning PC12s coming out as SYSOP announces.
1184 05Jul07=======================================================================
1185 1. Try to make sure that the node config broadcasts are actually sent...
1186 03Jul07=======================================================================
1187 1. fix unwanted dupe notifications if a PC12 comes back in on a loop.
1188 02Jul07=======================================================================
1189 1. Add a new command to show the contents of the cmd_cache. This allows those
1190 people whom develop their own commands to see which version they are using.
1191 It is called show/cmd_cache (or sh/cmd for short).
1192 2. Add some extra info to the links command. Show whether a link is isolated
1193 and also whether it has filters (if applicable) and whether these are
1194 personalised ('Y') or the default node_filter ('D').
1195 29Jun07=======================================================================
1196 1. If a node is set/isolated then make sure that a) pc9x is not advertised
1197 and b) pc9x is ignored.
1198 2. Add (un)set/wantpc9x command (but please don't use them without talking
1199 to me first), here be dragons!!
1200 25Jun07=======================================================================
1201 1. make sure that a C record is sent for node call every update period.
1202 2. make announces work again (probably).
1203 3. Fix long standing possibility of a crash with a new user.
1204 4. Add continuous chatting (like talk with no message eg 'chat #9000' just on
1205 its own with no message).
1206 24Jun07=======================================================================
1207 1. Fix the routing algorithms to allow route selection in the face of
1208 incomplete trees of nodes (trees as produced by sh/newc).
1209 2. Fix the obscount issues which mean that many nodes get timed out after 3hrs.
1210 3. Extend 4m to 70631 to cover CT.
1211 23Jun07=======================================================================
1212 1. fix basic deduping algorithm
1213 2. rearrange node startup protocol to avoid issuing unnecessary PC92 and also
1214 to spread the PC92Cs out for dependent nodes.
1215 3. increase the PC92C update time to 1 hour.
1216 4. fix sh/route, with a view toward replacing Route::alldxchan.
1217 5. downgrade a link advertising pc9x if no PC92C forthcoming from it back to
1218 old style protocol and carry on, rather than disconnecting (protocol facist
1220 6. Fix isolated pc9x nodes so that they remain in oldstyle protocol.
1221 22Jun07=======================================================================
1222 1. Fix Alias for sh/mydx (so it isn't the same as sh/myfdx).
1223 2. Fix sh/c/n uninitialised variable message
1224 3. Fix (and improve) sh/newc gb7 problem
1225 4. Fix broken set/sys_qra command
1226 21Jun07=======================================================================
1227 1. merge back SIMPLEROUTE branch to issue as official 1.54.
1228 18Jun07=======================================================================
1229 1. add a optional dependency on Encode (included in 5.8.x) to encode strings
1230 to latin1 for deduping purposes, hopefully getting rid of some dupes.
1231 2. add a default INPUT filter for a node (by_dxcc <node's country>) if no
1232 specific or default INPUT node exists.
1233 14Jun07=======================================================================
1234 1. prepare for git repository and moving of anon cvs repository to
1236 13Jun07=======================================================================
1238 2. change all the version / build numbering.
1239 11Jun07=======================================================================
1240 1. Change the frequency normalisation for DX Spot dupe checks so that any
1241 decimal part is thrown away (in other words: truncate the freq to integer khz)
1242 20May07=======================================================================
1244 08Apr07=======================================================================
1245 1. add CTY-1703 cty.dat
1246 2. alter the way the dupefile deletion is done.
1247 18Mar07=======================================================================
1248 1. change URL in show/425.
1249 04Mar07=======================================================================
1250 1. add CTY 1702 prefix data files
1251 22Feb07=======================================================================
1252 1. add show/myfdx to Aliases.
1253 15Feb07=======================================================================
1254 1. allow convkeps.pl to parse NORAD keps files.
1255 22Jan07=======================================================================
1256 1. disable default propagation of PC9x sentences
1257 2. simplify PC17 handling
1258 16Jan07=======================================================================
1259 1. back ported a change to PC16 handling so that a locally connected node's
1260 info clears out and generally overrides any residual PC16 info gathered from
1262 15Jan07=======================================================================
1264 07Jan07=======================================================================
1265 1. use IO::Socket blocking where available and switch off or ignore all
1267 05Jan07=======================================================================
1268 1. increase default ephemeral deduping on PC15 to 6 minutes (from 2).
1269 23Nov06=======================================================================
1270 1. added wrapping to over length lines in console.pl.
1271 03Nov06=======================================================================
1272 1. add CTY-1609 changes
1273 2. add back Geo::Taf code with submitted mods
1274 3. add new version of the sh/425 code using the new database location.
1275 09Oct06=======================================================================
1276 1. fix problems with bad filters pointed by Thomas DL3SBB.
1277 27Jul06=======================================================================
1278 1. merge in official issue version of wpxloc.raw (with one change: 4U1V).
1279 26Jul06=======================================================================
1280 1. incorporated Jim AD1C's spiffy new, unified, wpxloc.raw and version
1282 21Jul06=======================================================================
1283 1. Added the (now) all new gtkconsole program, with all the changes needed in
1284 dxspider to run it (yet another cmd interface (sigh)). You will need gtk2-perl
1285 installed (most modern linux distros do this automatically). The big news is
1286 that this will work on Windows boxes as well if you install the Gtk libraries
1287 as per: http://gtk2-perl.sf.net.
1288 03Jun06=======================================================================
1289 1. Added changes to wpxloc.raw (prefixes) suggested by Jim AD1C.
1290 2. Made a change to prevent xml data being interpreted unless we are
1292 3. Change the buddy messages after a suggestion from Angel EA7WA.
1293 02Apr06=======================================================================
1294 1. incorporated cty-1604 data.
1295 29Mar06=======================================================================
1296 1. fix sh/muf that I broke in the previous change
1297 26Mar06=======================================================================
1298 1. Arrange for any online buddies to be displayed when a user logs on.
1299 2. Try to reduce the amount of POSIX stuff that is loaded to just that which
1301 23Mar06=======================================================================
1302 1. Added cty-1603 data.
1303 2. On the advice of Jim AD1C I have changed around some things in wpxloc.raw
1304 that affect 8J,CT2,KC4,KG4,KG6,ZK1 and ZS2. These should now show the more
1305 likely canonical prefix.
1306 3. On the advice of Tom WB8ZRL, I have made BW an alias for BV (Taiwan) and
1307 made some other changes to affect the selection between the mainland and the
1308 island more reliable.
1309 10Mar06=======================================================================
1311 2. Add new Spanish translations by Angel EA7WA.
1312 07Mar06=======================================================================
1313 1. Add the node call to remote tell_login and tell_buddie calls.
1314 06Mar06=======================================================================
1315 1. Fix warning on empty PC19s.
1316 2. Add new command set/local_node to allow people to see logins/outs on other
1318 3. Add new command set/buddy to allow people to see when their favorite
1320 4. Arrange filter reading so that the following order is followed for users:
1321 callsign, callsign less ssid, user_default. Nodes are unchanged.
1322 14Feb06=======================================================================
1323 1. Turn R and SFI around in mrtg.pl.
1324 13Feb06=======================================================================
1325 1. Updated prefixes with cty-1601 data.
1326 2. Fixed qth in show/muf so that it shows the correct qth (if known).
1327 3. Try to make the state machine in convkeps.pl deal with more variations
1328 of the 2 line keps sets that are available on line. Also give a sensible
1329 error message if no keps were actually decoded.
1330 4. Update the base keps to the latest set of AMSAT keps 06033.
1331 04Feb06=======================================================================
1332 1. Explicitly ignore spots with lower case characters in the spotted call
1333 01Feb06=======================================================================
1334 1. Explicitly ignore spots with blank spotted callsigns
1335 26Jan06=======================================================================
1336 1. Fix divide by 0 error in DXBearing (how come this has taken so long to
1338 22Jan06=======================================================================
1339 1. Remove +<prefix> from the fronts of comments to fix LoTW dupes.
1340 18Jan06=======================================================================
1341 1. Fix spurious announce from previous year appearing in sh/ann.
1342 15Jan06=======================================================================
1343 1. Fix some obviously long standing problems with create_sysop.pl and also
1344 with initialising the User file.
1345 2. Fixed the problem with certain things not being shown in sh/log (because of
1346 a regex that rejected too many things).
1347 3. Speeded up sh/log quite a bit at the same time.
1348 4. Add a default limit of the last 36 months for sh/log querys.
1349 14Jan06=======================================================================
1350 1. undo frequency rounding change, it causes more problems than it solves.
1351 11Jan06=======================================================================
1352 1. Fixed problem with badspotters doing ann/full as pointed out by Luigi
1354 07Jan06=======================================================================
1355 1. Fixed problem with the standalone 'showdx' program pointed out by Leo,
1357 2. Fixed rounding problem on entering spots as pointed out by Ron N5IN.
1358 3. Fixed problem with badspotters sending DX as pointed out by Luigi IK5ZUK.
1359 4. Added some extra logging for swearing so that we can see what lines used
1360 which swear words. Hopefully this will allow sysops to refine their swearing
1361 filters more easily.
1362 06Jan06=======================================================================
1363 1. Fix problem with rcmd <call> sh/fdx
1364 27Dec05=======================================================================
1365 1. put some more flesh on the SQL stuff (which may turn out to be a bit of a
1366 red herring as it doesn't appear to be significantly faster (for spots) than
1368 21Dec05=======================================================================
1369 1. Add start of optional SQL working.
1370 2. Fix BadWords so that the simple word check splits words on word boundaries.
1371 13Dec05=======================================================================
1372 1. upissue version no to 1.52
1373 07Nov05=======================================================================
1374 1. Fix warnings on filtering spots where the filter was looking at US states
1375 and there is no US state in the spot.
1376 2. Fix the dupes caused by having a prefix in the last characters of the
1378 01Nov05=======================================================================
1379 1. add log2csv.pl for printing out logfiles
1380 25Oct05=======================================================================
1381 1. Incorporated the cty.dat from Jim dated today (25Oct05).
1382 08Oct05=======================================================================
1383 1. Reject PC11s with blank spot callsigns
1384 01Sep05=======================================================================
1385 1. Change the logic of propagating WWV broadcasts. Now all non-input filtered
1386 PC23s will be sent on. Previously only the first successful new WWV was
1388 2. fix the problem with by_dxcc and origin_dxcc not working on WWV.
1389 29Aug05=======================================================================
1390 1. try something else to resolve/prevent more of these spot dupes. It appears
1391 that there is software out there chopping off variable amounts from the ends
1392 of comment fields. This makes the task of detecting dupes that much harder.
1393 10Aug05=======================================================================
1394 1. trim dx spot duplicate length after normalisation
1395 2. Do the same for announces
1396 08Jul05=======================================================================
1397 1. new CTY.DAT encorporated
1398 27May05=======================================================================
1399 1. change copyright in dbg message at startup.
1400 25May05=======================================================================
1401 1. Added a means to import a script of arbitrary commands to allow external
1402 programs to do stuff.
1403 23Mar05=======================================================================
1404 1. fix (un)set/badspotter so that it only stores non-ssid calls.
1405 2. mention action on talk and ann/full in help.
1406 22Mar05=======================================================================
1407 1. Fix ? so it works again.
1408 2. Fix Aliases for sh/c so they are correct
1409 3. Fix sh/connect for AGW ports and other niffnaffs.
1410 22Mar05=======================================================================
1411 1. fixed sh/c/node sh/c/a and sh/newc/n.
1412 21Mar05=======================================================================
1413 1. log AGW port on connection
1414 2. merge in latest (2Mar2005) cty.dat
1415 3. fix command searching so it does not pick up false positives for commands
1416 with / in them in directories that don't have that.
1417 4. Important security change.
1418 5. add missing input filter for WWV
1419 16Mar05=======================================================================
1420 1. make the correct correction to the DL entry in wpxloc.raw (left out the
1421 'N' of 'North' in the latitude).
1422 2. Severely reduce the dupes caused by some of the badly configured / written
1423 spot suckers out there.
1424 13Mar05=======================================================================
1425 1. There has been a mix up in the Aranea1 branch. I have managed to merge a
1426 change that I have been meaning to do for ages. I have now made that change
1428 27Feb05=======================================================================
1429 1. fix duping on bad spot suckers that copy the prefix that is put at the end
1430 of the comment section by AR-C nodes becoming the whole comment.
1431 26Feb05=======================================================================
1432 1. Added show/grayline command from Steve K9AN. This is also aliased to
1434 2. fix spot dupe ambiguity on spotter having an SSID (remove it).
1435 25Feb05=======================================================================
1436 1. Changed the way spot deduping is done. This is likely to make deduping much
1437 stricter. In essence a person cannot spot the same call on the same frequency
1438 more than once an hour (configurable) unless he makes a (non-duped) comment
1440 2. Added Swains Island
1441 3. Added TO4G for Glorioso
1442 19Feb05=======================================================================
1443 1. changed ssb allocation on 40m to add missing 5Khz.
1444 2. Change sh/425 to Leo, IZ5FSA's requirements.
1445 08Feb05=======================================================================
1446 1. possibly fixed the multiple condition problems on sh/dx
1448 05Feb05=======================================================================
1449 1. Fix a long standing (ie since the first bulletin was sent) bug with old
1450 mail not being deleted until a restart was done.
1451 2. As well as a duplicate check on existing bulletins, I have added a check
1452 the message is not (already) too old.
1453 3. fix problem for perl < 5.6 in Thingy.pm
1454 03Feb05=======================================================================
1455 1. Added latest Spanish translations courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1456 2. Force all languages to use pr in en in Messages, as the prompt is
1458 19Jan05=======================================================================
1459 1. More Spanish changes by Angel, EA7WA.
1460 2. add language dependant motd files. You can now have motd_{lang} and
1461 motd_nor_{lang} (eg for Spanish: motd_es and motd_nor_es) for normal and
1462 non-registered (if you use registration) users respectively. Based on an idea
1464 18Jan05=======================================================================
1465 1. Added missing Spanish translation courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1466 2. Really incorporate latest cty.dat (11Dec04) as opposed to merely thinking
1467 I had (and still add 3X0Y as well).
1468 3. fix ? all in non english language
1469 4. Alias sh/st and sh/sta back to show/station from show/startup.
1470 17Jan05=======================================================================
1471 1. Added 3Y0X to Peter Island 3Y in cty.dat.
1472 16Jan05=======================================================================
1473 1. Added the changes to Canadian Prefixes so that usdbraw.gz from Charlie
1474 K1XX's website (http://dxc.k1xx.com/download) dated after 1Jan05 will include
1475 Canadian city and province data as well the existing US data.
1476 2. Improve the apropos command to take better account of language and do
1477 a better job of only showing english stuff for commands where there really is
1478 no local language version.
1479 15Jan05=======================================================================
1480 1. knocked over a few possible ways of people annoying other people thru
1482 2. Fixed problem in DXCommandmode with an indirect call that did not work
1484 3. Add Spanish translations of new scripting commands in help, from Angel
1486 13Jan05=======================================================================
1487 1. Fixed prompting in languages other than English.
1488 2. Fixed language problem with spoof, but that simply hides a whole can of
1489 worms that I shall have to address later.
1490 3. Added make clean to src Makefile (!!!)
1491 12Jan05=======================================================================
1492 1. Add $main::bumpexisting variable which allows a new connection for a user
1493 call to disconnect an existing connection with the same call. The default for
1494 this variable is 'true' (1). This means that existing behaviour has changed.
1495 set/var $main::bumpexisting = 0 to return to original behaviour.
1496 2. Remind a user every hour (as default) that they have new messages.
1497 set/var $DXCommandmode::msgpolltime = 3*3600 to set it to 3 hours.
1498 3. Allow some substitutions in set/prompt (call, date, time and
1499 cluster call) and add dxspider just before the > as standard.
1500 4. Add $main::allowdxby variable so that sysops can switch off the
1501 'DX BY <othercall' command. It is set to 0 (ie disabled) by default. This
1502 is for sysops who don't want to bump privilege to allow it. That still works
1504 5. Fix the bug in 'dx by <call>' that causes only the first word of the
1505 comment to be recorded.
1506 6. Fix bug counting backwards over a leap year in Julian.pm which meant that
1507 sh/dxstats doesn't start at 'yesterday' anymore.
1508 7. Added set/startup and show/startup commands to allow users and sysops
1509 to create and display startup scripts. There is also an unset/startup to
1511 27Dec04=======================================================================
1512 1. add improved VE data from Charlie K1XX. You should update usdb as well.
1513 22Dec04=======================================================================
1514 1. Changed all the names of US prefixes to be prepended with their State code.
1515 thus "Alaska-KL7" becomes "AK-Alaska-KL7".
1516 21Dec04=======================================================================
1517 1. added AGW port no after an example by IW5DEZ.
1518 2. modified links command to suggestions by Charlie K1XX.
1519 3. added show/groups command to show recently used chat groups by Tommy
1521 4. fixed T8 / V6 ambiguity (at least basically).
1522 20Dec04=======================================================================
1523 1. updated create_prefix.pl to only use (supplied) wpxloc.raw and cty.dat
1524 2. Added IG9, GM/S, 4U1V and some other detail changes to make it compatible
1526 3. regenerated prefix_data.pl with updated wpxloc.raw and cty.dat 11Dec04.
1527 17Dec04=======================================================================
1528 1. add undocumented special command for VE7CC.
1529 10Dec04=======================================================================
1530 1. Included fixes sent in by David, N9KT for the new DB0SDX site.
1531 2. removed redundant "rm *bys" and "rm *cys" from Spot::init().
1532 09Dec04=======================================================================
1533 1. fix show/mydx properly this time (and test the fix!)
1534 2. fix the default in show/qrz
1535 06Dec04=======================================================================
1536 1. fix show/mydx if there is no defined spotfilter
1537 07Oct04=======================================================================
1538 1. added the ability for people to import chat from external programs.
1539 create a directory called /spider/chat_import, make sure it is writable
1540 by any applications that might dump stuff in there (chmod 1777
1541 /spider/chat_import on *nux). Put a file with a sensible name in there;
1542 the first part of the name will be the chat group to whom the message will
1543 be sent. So solar.txt.12325 = SOLAR. Announces can also be sent to local, all
1544 and sysop (ie files whose name begins with those names). Each line in the
1545 file becomes a chat line or an announce. See importwwv.pl for an example.
1546 DO NOT USE importwwv.pl, I am already using it and if you do as well, people
1547 will get duplicates which will ANNOY THEM!!! It is just an example.
1548 23Aug04=======================================================================
1549 1. add the start of an alternative routing engine (RouteDB)
1550 20Aug04=======================================================================
1551 1. Added new protocol specification to techdoc
1552 17Aug04=======================================================================
1553 1. change 'fo' alias in Aliases
1554 31Jul04=======================================================================
1555 1. add a load of .cvsignore lines to reduce the updating noise
1556 30Jul04=======================================================================
1557 1. make sure that // is not converted to / in command lines.
1558 28Jul04=======================================================================
1559 1. backported 'Investigate' from NP branch so that only pingable nodes
1561 2. added missing entries in Internet.pm for sh/contest
1562 26Jul04=======================================================================
1563 1. added extra variables to Internet.pm to allow the various internet query
1564 commands to alter the url that they use.
1565 2. Added show/425 command from Leo, IZ5FSA.
1566 05Jul04=======================================================================
1567 1. fix rspfcheck on pc27
1568 23Jun04=======================================================================
1569 1. Add zone, by_zone, itu, by_itu, state and by_state searches to sh/dx
1570 2. Update manuals for CVS and new commands
1571 22Jun04=======================================================================
1572 1. Add the show/mydx command which *may* filter your spots using your
1574 17Jun04=======================================================================
1575 1. alter processing of PC17 to see if they get distributed more than now.
1576 14Jun04=======================================================================
1577 1. fix previous fix of sh/dx
1578 09Jan04=======================================================================
1579 1. removed PC90 which was breaking various filtering things.
1580 2. added realtime spot formats to sh/dx (at least in basic form), this is
1581 activated by using either of the keywords 'real' of 'rt' on the command
1582 line. Also added sh/fdx as an alias.
1583 01Jan04=======================================================================
1584 1. move position of USDB init to get rid of an obscure bug pointed out by
1586 2. Remove redundant documentation.
1587 31Dec03=======================================================================
1588 1. alter remote database handling to 'new standard'.
1589 30Dec03=======================================================================
1590 1. updated website to make it clear(er) that it all works under Windows (like
1591 wot Charlie said...).
1592 2. made the changes to the German Messages that Thomas DL3SBB sent me a
1594 3. made 'dx by' require at least privilege 1.
1595 29Dec03=======================================================================
1596 1. updated dxoldtonew.pl so that it takes an AK1A DX.DAT file (argument on
1597 command line or a default of /spider/data/DX.DAT and outputs the standard
1598 DXSpider format spot files. Please be warned that if any of these files
1599 already exist, the data will be appended onto the end of the file. Please
1600 make sure you have backups or at least be aware that this may give strange
1601 results which may be 'out of order'.
1602 24May03=======================================================================
1603 1. Added more french translations from Robert (HB9BZA) and we now have some
1604 french help as well (also from Robert). A splendid effort. Thank you.
1605 16May03=======================================================================
1606 1. Correct Windows section of the Addendum file! (g0vgs)
1607 06May03=======================================================================
1608 1. Add Portuguese language courtesy of David CT1DRB (set/lang pt)
1609 2. Add French language courtesy of Robert HB9BZA (set/lang fr)
1610 02Apr03=======================================================================
1611 1. Fix some minor problems with the manuals (g0vgs)
1612 01Apr03=======================================================================
1613 1. Update filtering primer, changes by N3RD (g0vgs)
1614 28Mar03=======================================================================
1615 1. Added an excellent document on filtering to the manuals from Jim, W3BG
1616 2. started to remove old documents (g0vgs)
1617 27Mar03=======================================================================
1618 1. play around with sh/reg, sh/iso, sh/node and sh/lock to make them work
1619 slightly better with the new user format.
1620 2. update manuals (g0vgs)
1621 26Mar03=======================================================================
1622 1. add some ak1a compatibility changes to chat
1623 2. added help text for chat, join, leave and sh/chat.
1624 18Mar03=======================================================================
1625 1. minor corrections to manuals (g0vgs)
1626 17Mar03=======================================================================
1627 1. changed the regex determining what is a callsign to be more comprehensive.
1628 I would suggest re-running create_qsl.pl and then restarting.
1629 2. Fix chat so that output appears to users again and PC sentence conforms
1630 to standard. Add kludge to remove rewritten chats if I see them.
1631 3. Only send chat PCs to spider or AK1A boxes
1632 12Mar03=======================================================================
1633 1. added HC and QRZ.com to possible QSL locations, if you want to pick up
1634 historical info (ie start again), run create_qsl.pl after update and restart
1635 the node (which you will need to do anyway).
1636 2. changed the dbcreate command so that you can say:
1637 dbcreate dxqsl cmd show/dxqsl
1638 which will allow local and remote users to execute commands as though they
1639 are Databases. You can also include these databases in chains. What you do
1640 with this, is ofcourse a moot question.
1641 3. Update manuals (g0vgs)
1642 11Mar03=======================================================================
1643 1. Changed the name of show/qsl to show/dxqsl.
1644 2. Alter Commands_en.hlp to match new name and issue manual updates (g0vgs)
1645 10Mar03=======================================================================
1646 1. added show/qsl command. This command basically takes the normal output of
1647 sh/dx qsl and stores it in a database. In order to enable this command you
1648 will require the Storable module to be loaded (you will already have done
1649 this with a bit of luck for the new DXUser interface). The suggested
1650 procedure is (after the update) to run /spider/perl/create_qsl.pl (this may
1651 take a long time), then immediately it finishes, restart the node. The node
1652 will then keep the database up to date automatically. If you are not
1653 interested in historical data then you can leave this step out.
1654 2. added show/contest command from Tommy SM3OSM via Rene OZ1LQH.
1655 08Mar03=======================================================================
1656 1. Added chat, join, leave commands to allow general purpose conferencing
1657 on arbitrary subjects. [Translators: added e34,e35,join,leave]. There is
1658 currently no help. There is also sh/chat.
1659 28Feb03=======================================================================
1660 1. Charlie K1XX fixed the sh/iso, sh/reg and sh/node commands
1661 25Feb03=======================================================================
1662 1. backported switch processing for PC sentences
1663 24Feb03=======================================================================
1664 1. add the 'run' command and the 'privilege' command to allow sysops to
1665 create scripts for people.
1666 2. fix show/user so that it doesn't moan about uninitialised variables
1667 23Feb03=======================================================================
1668 1. Added show/wm7d command (a US only callbook server) [by K1XX].
1669 2. Added a prototype show/db0sdx command (w.i.p).
1670 3. Added set/dxcq and set/dxitu zone commands [Translators: I have added
1671 dxcqu, dxcqs, dxitus and dxituu to Messages].
1672 4. Add new Commands to manuals (g0vgs)
1673 5. make sure that none of the above set/dx... commands are defaulted on
1674 22Feb03=======================================================================
1675 1. changed qrz.com address
1676 2. added Charlie's [K1XX] new wpxloc.raw data stuff to get WA1, KC3 type
1677 callsigns to work better.
1678 3. added in set/usstate command which prints any US state information
1679 available on both the spotted (LHS of time) and spotter (RHS of time).
1680 [Translators: I have added usstates and usstateu to Messages].
1681 4. Merged in the new (faster) DXUser.pm.
1683 [NOTE] this version will require Storable to be installed. On the
1684 other hand the code may work without, in a compatible way. This bit hasn't
1685 been very well tested (the 'no Storable' condition that is).
1687 [*** NOTE ***] make sure that you do an 'export_user' BEFORE restarting
1688 you node. (Yes I know this is like a shrinkwrap licence, but I can't
1691 It will take several minutes for the node to restart when it does the
1692 conversion from .v2 to .v3 user file. Please go and have a good strong cup
1693 of tea whilst this is happening.
1695 If it fails then you will need to edit your latest user_asc file on (or about)
1696 line 25 it says: $ref = decode($f[1]); you will need to change that to
1697 $ref = asc_decode($f[1]); and then do: perl user_asc
1699 DO MAKE SURE THAT you include subdirectories in your CVS update
1701 21Feb03=======================================================================
1702 1. moved the export of the users file to Wednesday night (GMT) to avoid
1703 possible crashes and/or delays during a contest weekend.
1704 14Feb03=======================================================================
1705 1. some major changes to the structure of the manual documentation. To bring
1706 the manuals into line, they now have the language tag (like
1707 installation_en.html). Hopefully someone will translate the manuals
1708 eventually :-) I have left the old files in CVS for now to allow
1709 everyone to change any symlinks etc to the new filenames. I will remove the
1710 old files shortly, please update your links! (g0vgs)
1711 2. docs makefile updated and commands2sgml.pl added from M0AZM. This script
1712 inserts the helpfiles automagically from Commands_en.hlp into the relevant
1714 3. Commands_en.hlp adjusted slightly to ensure at least one space before
1715 examples for the purposes of the above script. (g0vgs)
1716 4. Amend index.html to the right document names. (g0vgs)
1717 09Feb03=======================================================================
1718 1. Correct some typos in the manuals and update perl modules etc. Also
1719 amend some help files to show correct syntax, around the 'clear' commands
1720 swapping [input] and <callsign> in each case, translators please take note.
1721 Thanks to Dave N3RD for info. (g0vgs)
1722 2. update the addendum for latest build and include information on additional
1723 modules required. (g0vgs)
1724 20Jan03=======================================================================
1725 1. changed sh/c so that, by default, it only shows the caller's country nodes
1726 sh/c all will show the old style full list. "sh/c sk gb" will show the config
1727 of all the GB and SK nodes.
1728 2. changed sh/stat and sh/route for nodes
1729 19Jan03=======================================================================
1730 1. I have made a fundemental change to the way PC19s are dealt with as a
1731 result of the discussions on the mailing list. From now on, only nodes that
1732 issue PC16s will have PC19s propagated. If they *ever* issue a PC16 then from
1733 then on they are considered as being 'connected' and thus routable. No PC16
1734 and you have no route. This should stop all passive links being routed. For
1735 the few cases where you know that that is a very small node and it rarely has
1736 users, then you can do a set/routepc19 <node> to enable PC19 propagation. In
1737 the even more rare case of you wanting to prevent PC19s being routed thru
1738 your node, you can use unset/routepc19. THIS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ROUTE
1739 FILTERING!!!!! [translators: I have added wpc16s, wpc16u, wpc19s, wpc19u]
1741 BTW the first time you connect again you will notice a separate PC19 go out
1742 for each 'new' PC16 that the node sees. This is normal and will go away the
1743 second time the system needs to issue a PC19.
1744 2. Alter the export_user command to remove users that have no useful info
1745 and have not been seen for more than (default) 1 year.
1746 3. fix the problem of users on more than one node not being propagated
1747 4. remove spaces and all non-US ascii characters from PC41 for the dup check.
1748 5. put in check to see if the parent of a newly allowed PC19 is still there
1749 (this needs further investigation).
1750 17Jan03=======================================================================
1751 1. Fix problem with lines being left in the main input queue for a
1752 disconnected/ing node.
1753 14Jan03=======================================================================
1754 1. Tidy up AUTOLOAD functions
1755 2. Make sure that empty PC16s are not sent on startup to a node.
1756 12Jan03=======================================================================
1757 1. add Czech language courtesy of Milan OK1XH
1758 06Jan03=======================================================================
1759 1. add the latest changes to the spider-web java interface from Rene, OZ1LQH.
1760 Please note that there is a change to the spider.cgi file this time so that
1761 the client show 'Connected to Node_Call' instead of the hostname. You will
1762 need to update your cgi file when you update the changes. Please make sure
1763 that you back up your old files first! (g0vgs)
1764 2. yet more changes to the java client from Rene :-) Also added a makefile
1765 and a Changes file for the client in the spider-web directory.
1766 05Jan03=======================================================================
1767 1. fix some irritating messages caused by protocol loops in sh/c
1769 3. move GN from GJ to GI
1770 31Dec02=======================================================================
1771 1. Update files in the java client with fixes and additions from Rene, OZ1LQH
1772 05Dec02=======================================================================
1773 1. Fix SSID issues with AGWMsg.
1774 2. updated show/hftable, vhftable, hfstats, vhfstats and dxstats after K1XX
1775 sent in some sample code indicated new functionality he requires. Translators
1776 please note that the stat* messages have been changed and e33 added. I have
1777 also added quite a bit of extra examples and things to the relevant HELP
1778 texts. It is now possible to search from any date for up to 365 days of data.
1779 You can get the information by prefix or by callsign or for ALL spots.
1780 04Dec02=======================================================================
1781 1. updated sh/log to allow searching for more arbitrary strings such as IP
1783 08Nov02=======================================================================
1784 1. update Keps.pm to reflect which satellites now come round in the weekly
1785 updates. I suggest that you copy this file to /spider/local and do a load/kep
1786 and you should lose all the 'old' satellites (eg MIR).
1787 08Nov02=======================================================================
1788 1. made some small mods to grepdbg and spot2csv.pl
1789 2. fix a possible DOS in dx command
1790 07Nov02=======================================================================
1791 1. allow three digit longitudes
1792 2. make a small change to see if messages now stay in place.
1793 3. make keep actually stick over a reboot and take it fully into account for
1794 deletions (translators: I added m18).
1795 4. try not to delete new messages (even if this is an update that reads 'old'
1796 messages with missing fields).
1797 29Oct02=======================================================================
1798 1. make sh/log et al a bit more efficient.
1799 2. fix dupe message in dx.
1800 3. update cty.dat to the latest, add k8T, K8O to KH8 and TX5BTY to FO/A
1801 4. clear cache on reload of prefixes
1802 25Oct02=======================================================================
1803 1. remove the dupefile automatically if it becomes corrupted
1804 2. instrument the startup slightly more
1805 21Oct02=======================================================================
1807 2. make the default pinginterval and obscount variable (set/var
1808 $DXProt::pingint and $DXProt::obscount)
1809 20Oct02=======================================================================
1810 1. remove dupe check on local sysop announces
1811 2. fix format errors on sh/muf for 5.8.0
1812 3. add new version of the administration manual that includes WinCVS with
1813 thanks to K1XX (g0vgs).
1814 17Oct02=======================================================================
1815 1. added new Spanish files for help and Messages from Angel, EA7WA.
1816 16Oct02=======================================================================
1817 1. decrease the default max length of PC16/19 to around 180 characters to be
1818 slightly friendlier to ARC, which seems to have a difficulty reconstructing
1819 lines from multiple packets. Also make the value settable via set/var.
1820 2. strip off blank spaces from the ends of lines of command output.
1821 15Oct02=======================================================================
1822 1. made some detail changes to the raw USDB data and the routines that
1823 generate and operate on them. There were some bugs involving a few 'missing'
1824 callsigns which been fixed. Also there were some, for our purposes, invalid
1825 callsigns in the database which have been removed (down to about 820,000
1826 entries now). You should really update your database.
1828 The latest code now (conditionally; ie if you have it loaded it will use it)
1829 support Compress::Zlib on both *nux and Windows. The suggested procedure
1832 1. Download the corrected database from
1833 http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz to somewhere like /tmp.
1835 3. Restart (on linux, just stop the node and *don't* restart on Windows).
1836 4. remove /spider/data/usdb.v1
1838 6. (perl) create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw.gz (or wherever you put it)
1839 6a. If you don't have Compress::Zlib loaded then you will need to gunzip
1840 it manually and do: create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (not Windows :-)
1841 7. on linux, in a console window do: load/usdb, on windows: restart the node.
1843 2. Added set/usdb command to add adding or changing of a callsign in the USDB
1844 3. Stop dupe spots from the same spotter (with or without comment corruption)
1845 14Oct02=======================================================================
1846 1. added show/usdb command as a simple, direct interface to the information
1847 available in the USDB stuff.
1848 13Oct02=======================================================================
1849 1. A large change has occurred. There is now some (optional) US state recog-
1850 nition. This is in its early stages but appears to work for me. You will need
1853 1. download the database at http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz
1854 2. save it somewhere (/tmp, anywhere).
1855 3. Decompress it using your favorite program (gunzip / winzip) [call it
1856 usdbraw if winzip]{BE WARNED, some browsers may decompress it on the
1857 fly for you, you can tell; if it is 5Mb it is compressed - 16Mb not}.
1858 4. remove any /spider/data/user.v1 files lying around (at least for this
1861 6. perl create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (ie the UNCOMPRESSED file)
1862 7. Wait, I suggest some cups of tea are in order.
1865 You don't need Compress::Zlib anymore, I assumed it was universal.
1867 You will be able do this while the node is running somewhen. There is a
1868 planned method of keeping the US DB up to date with smaller (ie < 15Mb) patch
1869 files once a week but you will have to wait a bit for the code to bed down
1870 first. You can filter on routes, spots and announces using 'call_state' or
1871 'by_state' and a comma separated list of state codes. The HELP has been
1872 updated (which may help...).
1874 Once you have run the create_usdb.pl you will need to restart.
1876 If you don't need this, then don't run create_usdb.pl it will simply be
1877 a waste of time. The run-time version is 30Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
1878 in it. This does not replace or supplant sh/qrz (sorry Charlie [who put me
1881 2. There are a number of other niff-naff changes which I hope will improve
1882 rather than hinder your user experience (including check forward as well as
1883 back for those speedy clocked dupes mentioned below).
1884 12Oct02=======================================================================
1885 1. attempt to improve the "check back for 5 minutes to see if this spot is
1886 the same as a previous one but for the time spotted" dupe check.
1887 2. improve the sh/vhftable and sh/hftable commands to allow you to enquire
1888 by dxcc country (using the relevant prefixes or dxcc country numbers).
1889 [note to translators, I have changed the help text and Messages tags for
1891 07Oct02=======================================================================
1892 1. fix problem with (invalid) callsigns starting with '0' (zero) eg 0f6ira.
1893 03Oct02=======================================================================
1894 1. only sysop (priv=5+) can now send to distro SYSOP, ordinary users will have
1895 their message routed to the $main::myalias callsign as a private message.
1896 29Sep02=======================================================================
1897 1. Added LRU caching to DXUsers and Prefix.
1898 2. make Timer::handler only search its chain once a second seeing as that
1899 is the minimum granularity available.
1900 3. add some separation between cfg file making, data generation and mrtg
1901 running. See /spider/cmd/mrtg.pl for some instructions...
1902 4. Added data in and out to the MRTG stats, you need to do an indexmaker
1903 to get them onto the index page, I have also added some colour to the
1904 legend to make what is being displayed a bit more obvious.
1906 See http://gb7djk.dxcluster.org/mrtg/stats.html for an example of the
1909 28Sep02=======================================================================
1910 1. Put some transparent caching into Prefix.pm to see if this has a
1912 2. Fix doing a new log open for every log file write.
1913 26Sep02=======================================================================
1914 1. added WWV and WCY to the Mrtg stats. Don't forget to do an indexmaker!
1915 25Sep02=======================================================================
1916 1. added mrtg stuff to the system as a template. In order to use this you
1917 must install mrtg onto your system and copy all the mrtg files (or at least
1918 all the images) to new directory /spider/html/mrtg. The system generates the
1919 config file for you as part of its workings. To get it to update add a line
1920 to your spider crontab like:
1922 00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * run_cmd('mrtg all')
1924 You will also need to do an indexmaker once in the html directory. I put the
1925 index page into /spider/html/mrtg/stats.html YMMV. I do:
1927 indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for
1928 GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg
1930 But all on one line.
1931 2. I have made a technical change to the way ax25 connects outward on unix
1932 boxes are done. I currently have no way of testing this. I think it still
1934 22Sep02=======================================================================
1935 1. Add changes to the installation manual for Windows users from K1XX
1936 21Sep02=======================================================================
1937 1. make some detail changes for connects out in Msg.pm
1938 17Sep02=======================================================================
1939 1. Added shu command for Charlie's (K1XX) benefit (together with the rest of
1940 our butterfingered sysops) who miss the '/' out of sh/u frequently enough
1941 to curse. 'shu' simply types out a message saying 'type SHUT' to shutdown the
1942 node. Added 'shu' to /spider/perl/Messages. No need to restart, just
1943 load/mess and load/alias after doing a CVS.
1944 21Aug02=======================================================================
1945 1. added 'warc' and 'contesthf' to the regions in bands.pl (K1XX).
1946 20Aug02=======================================================================
1947 1. fix lines containing just the character '0' in messages (and console.pl)
1949 2. remove all newline characters from AGW data, thus treating it like a
1950 'normal' ax25 connection where the 'newline' convention is just carriage
1952 06Aug02=======================================================================
1953 1. added 5.5Mhz band as '60m'.
1954 29Jul02=======================================================================
1955 1. Changed max R value in wcy to 500 from 300.
1956 2. Got rid of warnings on startup using 5.8.0
1957 28Jul02=======================================================================
1958 1. stick the invalid key deletes in an eval loop in export_user
1959 18Jul02=======================================================================
1960 1. Make additions and changes to manuals. (g0vgs)
1961 16Jul02=======================================================================
1962 1. Add changes to the spider-web java web client. Thanks to Rene, OZ1LQH. It
1963 should now be easier to install and run for all systems. (g0vgs)
1964 11Jul02=======================================================================
1965 1. NP work has now started in ernest ([ed]who he?). You will need to download
1966 Digest::SHA1 and any dependant packages to run this release. HOWEVER tempted
1967 you are, please don't set/newprotocol on any nodes. It won't work.
1968 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
1969 2. Make the cluster node registered on from startup (from Mark HB9DBM).
1970 3. Make the 'export_users' process *MUCH* more robust. It should now accept
1971 funny characters and not rely on an absolutely 'perfect' user file to work.
1972 Errors are displayed (and logged if done from the cluster) and then ignored.
1973 Invalid callsigns are removed.
1974 09Jul02=======================================================================
1975 1. make the is_qra more accurate (from Mark HB9DBM).
1976 04Jul02=======================================================================
1977 1. added another fix to Prefix.pm so that it resolves Japan callsigns again
1978 also you can 'set/debug prefix' to see what it is trying to do.
1979 03Jul02=======================================================================
1980 1. Added the DEMONSTRATE command which allows a sysop to demonstrate a
1981 command to a user (from a request by Charlie K1XX).
1982 2. added message e31 (xxxx is not a user)
1983 02Jul02=======================================================================
1984 1. Fixed the problem with badspotter or badnode being set to baddx if either
1985 of the data files are missing.
1986 25Jun02=======================================================================
1987 1. as predicted there was an error in the Prefix routine, I have improved it.
1988 24Jun02=======================================================================
1989 1. make set/badspotter non SSID sensitive. Set/badnode is left to be SSID
1991 2. added 3XA(=3X) and K1B(=KH1) also changed the logic of sh/prefix. This
1992 may break things, please test it.
1993 19Jun02=======================================================================
1994 1. make set/badspotter and set/badnode apply to announces and talks as well
1996 12Jun02=======================================================================
1997 1. fixed (un)set/wwv and (un)set/wcy so they don't issue spurious messages.
1998 Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
1999 07Jun02=======================================================================
2000 1. fix messages in DXDb.pm to point to the correct ones. Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
2001 2. add missing wcys and wcyu messages to Messages. Thanks Rene (again)
2002 3. upissue version number to 1.50 (finally)
2003 16Apr02=======================================================================
2004 1. allow the rest of PC19 to continue if it contains a reference to a locally
2005 connected node. Thank you Tommy SM3OSM.
2006 19Mar02=======================================================================
2007 1. fix problems with ephemeral dup checking on PC16,17,19,21
2008 2. perturb the problem with national character sets.
2009 15Mar02=======================================================================
2010 1. add help for 'accept' and 'reject'. (g0vgs)
2011 2. adjustments to the manuals (g0vgs)
2012 3. make changes to reflect the correct output of sh/sun and sh/moon based
2013 on information from Steve, K9AN. (g0vgs)
2014 23Feb02=======================================================================
2015 1. remove old satellites from keps.
2016 2. Add information on setting up the ax25 utils to the installation manual
2018 19Feb02=======================================================================
2019 1. move the PC11 dup check after the input filter
2020 06Feb02=======================================================================
2021 1. changes to manuals to (hopefully) improve documentation and alter my email
2023 02Feb02=======================================================================
2024 1. changed sh/qrz to the latest incarnation of the command at qrz.com.
2025 29Jan02=======================================================================
2026 1. add VP8GEO to South Georgia
2027 27Jan02=======================================================================
2028 1. make save work in cron context
2029 2. try to get the C client to handle closes on its standard input better
2030 3. put some validation in cluster.pl to check that people have set it up
2032 4. fix the long callsign checking
2033 22Jan02=======================================================================
2034 1. limit spot dupe checking to first 12 characters
2035 13Jan02=======================================================================
2036 1. changed the backstop termination alarm routing in the C client so that
2037 it flushes the input and output buffer and then commits suicide.
2038 12Jan02=======================================================================
2039 1. put setsockopts into eval block to allow some of them to fail
2040 11Jan02=======================================================================
2041 1. Make M$ TCP connx blocking again, sigh...
2042 2. backed out ALL the M$ speedup and make nicer changes :-(
2043 3. cope with data coming in during the disconnection process. Don't worry
2044 Earth people, this will take no longer than 15 of your Earth seconds...
2045 10Jan02=======================================================================
2046 1. set SO_LINGER = 0 to try to prevent the system sending data on a closing
2047 socket. This MAY help some of the hanging problems (but I am now beginning
2049 2. do the same on the C client (which means DON'T FORGET to make it).
2050 3. set no nagling on the output from the node.
2051 4. set KEEPALIVE on TCP connections for both the node and C Client (you will
2052 have to make the C client again) and you will need to restart.
2053 5. It appears that it IS possible to set non blocking on M$ you just need to
2055 6. Fix problem with load/cmd_cache core dumping the system
2056 08Jan02=======================================================================
2057 1. altered sh/qrz to point to the new server
2058 2. alter the character set handling a bit to make it better for spanish
2059 06Jan02=======================================================================
2060 1. fix leading space removal from messages input from the keyboard
2061 2. make some mods to allow perl 5.7.2 to run
2062 3. create $DXProt::eph_restime to allow variable slugging of ephemeral dups
2063 4. create $DXProt::eph_info_restime to allow a long dupe time for these
2064 5. create $DXProt::eph_pc34 to allow a short anti dupe slug for rcmd loops
2065 6. Add a new sysop cmd 'save' which will save the output of any command (or
2066 list of commands in "<cmd>") to a file.
2067 7. Add a new command "echo" which echos its argument to the screen (useful
2068 for titling in the save command above.
2069 8. Increase interval between logins causing for/opernam to 60 days (from 30)
2070 + a random factor between 0 and 9.
2071 9. Added Italian translation of Messages from Luca IT9ROT (thank you
2073 10. Added the /<cmd> feature (as in talk) to execute a cmd whilst typing a
2074 message, then enhanced it so that if you do //sh/dx (for instance) it will
2075 put the result into the message (as well as show it to you).
2076 11. Added the // feature to talk as well.
2077 02Jan02=======================================================================
2078 1. updated the copyright dates
2079 2. modernised and extended the Windows instructions a bit.
2080 3. added a TODO file which is the list of things that I need to do. Please
2081 badger me to put YOUR enhancement on this list. It will then get done.
2082 31Dec01=======================================================================
2083 1. Make a couple of changes to the Installation Manual and add a FAQ on msg
2085 2. Fix unset/register so it works (g0vgs)
2086 30Dec01=======================================================================
2087 1. make PC21 coming from the channel's node call then treat it as a PC39 and
2089 2. Send the client a 'Z' command (shutdown) to see if this has any effect on
2091 26Dec01=======================================================================
2092 1. make some detail changes to help texts
2093 2. Added 'all' to the Band's region table to allow 'acc/spot on all/cw'
2094 23Dec01=======================================================================
2095 1. allow sh/dx on 1000/4000 (or 1000-4000).
2096 2. merge sh/dx and sh/dxcc commands (Alias sh/dxcc to sh/dx dxcc). You can
2097 now do things like 'sh/dxcc oq2 by w dxcc'.
2098 20Dec01=======================================================================
2099 1. Fix 'not' in filtering
2100 2. alter default max spots to 100 and the no of WWV to 5
2101 17Dec01=======================================================================
2102 1. added new satellite stuff from Steve K9AN. Fixed upper/lower problem
2104 2. enhanced load/keps to accept a message no. This will create a new keps
2105 file from a msg (hopefully containing 2 Line Nasa keps) and then load - all
2106 in one step. Added load/keps to the help files
2107 3. Updated spanish Messages
2108 4. Improve wcy command from Stephan DK8LV's input
2109 5. Added set/prompt (and unset/prompt) command so that Stephan can fool some
2110 external programs into thinking it is talking to clx.
2111 15Dec01=======================================================================
2112 1. added superfluous spaces back into PC73 for the benefit of clx
2113 14Dec01=======================================================================
2114 1. make Spanish in set/lang & Messages 'es' instead of 'sp'
2115 2. added prototype WCY and WWV commands (for qualified users only)
2116 3. Added Commands_es.hlp contributed by Angel EA7WA
2117 12Dec01=======================================================================
2118 1. added Commands_de.hlp contributed (in record time) by Stephan DK8LV.
2119 2. fixed help command so it uses it!
2120 11Dec01=======================================================================
2121 1. make PC17 generation more unconditional
2122 08Dec01=======================================================================
2123 1. added unset/hops command
2124 02Dec01=======================================================================
2125 1. Fix spurious 'new message for you' messages if things are deleted but
2127 2. stop remote passive nodes (those with version numbers of 0000) from
2128 poluting the nodes table. Maybe this will make things slightly more stable.
2129 3. Take off rspf checks on announces and spots and allow the dupe filters
2131 4. Move the dupe checking AFTER the input filtering for announces and spots.
2132 5. Changed the checking of PC19/21 that it doesn't alter the wrong node
2133 6. Alter the storage of messages so that illegal characters are stored as '.'
2134 in an attempt to stop such messages from hanging.
2135 26Nov01=======================================================================
2136 1. Make changes to the installation manual to show making the client before
2137 actually trying to use it! Thanks to oz1lqh. Also add a line for SuSE
2139 22Nov01=======================================================================
2140 1. finally fix DELETE = ^H = Backspace in console.pl
2141 21Nov01=======================================================================
2142 1. altered the PC16/17 generation slightly to see whether this cures Roland's
2144 19Nov01=======================================================================
2145 1. added Ducie Island to prefixes
2146 17Nov01=======================================================================
2147 1. updated the Java Web Interface from Ian, m0azm to allow passwords. If
2148 a user with no password enters anything, including null, it is happily
2149 accepted and ignored.
2150 2. added the German language to the Messages file from Stephan, dk8lv
2151 14Nov01=======================================================================
2152 1. make the number of characters of the dx comment dependant on the type of
2153 connection. This should mean that 'legacy' user programs can cope.
2154 2. move the handling of unprintable characters out of IntMsg
2155 07Nov01=======================================================================
2156 1. fix is_pctext so that it actually catches corrupt spots and announces.
2157 2. fix console.pl so that you can type in '0' again
2158 3. Fix problem with reply disappearing up its own bottom.
2159 4. Added Steve's latest sh/moon stuff
2160 06Nov01=======================================================================
2161 1. fix read so that sysop reading doesn't increment the read counter for
2162 private mail not addressed to them.
2163 2. fix console.pl to show blank lines more reliably.
2164 3. fix msgs so that 2 R: lines are only stored on initial entry (not just
2166 04Nov01=======================================================================
2167 1. Allow the user to equal the node in RSPF checks (this allows spots and
2168 stuff with the origin and spotter to be the same (although it is STRONGLY
2169 recommended that they are NOT!!! [hint hint]).
2170 2. make the send command rather more sensitive to what is allowed. Basically
2171 it will only allow TO addresses that are bull addresses (if not private) or
2172 vaild callsigns (if private). Bull addresses are the ones in
2173 /spider/msg/forward.pl with a 'T' flag on them. If there is no forward
2174 file it will only allow 'ALL' and 'DX' as valid Bull TO addresses. You may
2175 use commas as callsign separators if you like.
2176 02Nov01=======================================================================
2177 1. fixed some Aliasing problems, but this whole area will have to be addressed
2178 more comprehensively.
2179 2. Changed talk logging so that it hopefully is more consistant and maybe even
2181 3. Altered the mechanism of the personal emailing so that it uses lower level
2182 components and should be therefore available on M$ platforms. You will need
2183 to install a version of libnet (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then install Net::SMTP).
2184 I believe all 5.6.x perls have this built in (ie M$ should have this). If you
2185 are on M$ or you want to use an MTA via SMTP in linux then you need to declare
2186 the dns name of the MTA by: set/var $DXMsg::email_server = 'post.fred.net'
2187 (or whatever the MTA is called). You can also use local programs other than
2188 sendmail by: set/var $DXMsg::email_prog = '/usr/bin/postfix ..' or whatever.
2189 Finally you can alter the 'from' address using: set/var $DXMsg::email_from
2190 = 'FBloggs@msn.com' (\@ if you use " and ") - bewarned that you may be
2191 prevented from using just any old address. You can place these commands in
2192 /spider/scripts/startup for permanent use.
2193 01Nov01=======================================================================
2194 1. added information on registration, login scripts and passwords to the
2195 26Oct01=======================================================================
2196 1. If $main::reqreg = 1 then set/register will allow 'registered' users
2197 full access, if $main::reqreg = 2 then registered users will be 'read-only'
2198 (ie the opposite). If $main::reqreg = 0 then registration and its effects
2200 25Oct01=======================================================================
2201 1. added unset/password command to allow sysops (only) to completely delete
2202 and remove a user's password.
2203 2. make 'read' increment the 'no of times read' for all messages.
2204 3. give a read receipt for everybody that reads a message so marked.
2205 4. enhance set/email so that if you set email address(es) with this command
2206 it will send any messages to your callsign as they come in. unset/email
2207 will disable forwarding.
2208 24Oct01=======================================================================
2209 1. added (un)set/register, show/registered commands which when a 'set/var
2210 $main::reqreg = 1' is done in the startup script will require users to
2211 be 'registered' in order for them to have 'write' access to the node. Non-
2212 registered users will only be allowed to TALK or SEND PRIVATE to the cluster
2214 2. Added password interrogation to the ExtMsg connections. If a user comes
2215 in via telnet and this is being done with the internal listener and a pass-
2216 word has been set for that user - he will be asked for it. You can force
2217 a password interrogation (for ALL users) with a 'set/var $main::passwdreq = 1'
2218 in the node's startup script. It is anticipated that if you are using
2219 registration you will also issue passwords to those registered users.
2220 3. set/password has been changed so that users already with passwords can
2222 4. A non-registered user will get the /spider/data/motd_nor file instead of
2224 5. made the BadWord regexes slightly less aggressive WARNING this may let
2225 some constructions thru, but hopefully will also allow more legitimate
2226 foreign (mainly) things thru as well.
2227 19Oct01=======================================================================
2228 1. Allow DELETE (0x7f) for backspace in console.pl
2229 2. redo prefix table using latest cty.dat
2230 14Oct01=======================================================================
2231 1. Add the shortform SH/ST like display to sh/user <call> to make it more
2232 AK1A compatible (G0RDI+G4PDQ pace).
2233 12Oct01=======================================================================
2234 1. make del nnn delete messages again (fix system Aliases file)
2235 2. substr the subject so that the dup works for stuff coming back via AK1A
2236 09Oct01=======================================================================
2237 1. change Aliases to allow shutdown as a command again. If you have changed
2238 /spider/cmd/Aliases and you update from CVS you may find it better to remove
2239 this file and then do another 'cvs update'. Otherwise you may get conflicts
2240 and the Aliase file will not load properly. The cvs update will recreate
2241 the (now) missing file.
2242 2. Remove the 'please don't use XXXX on here' messages to prevent people
2243 from exploring the 'bad words space'. Three bad words will still disconnect
2245 3. Sending dx spots/announces with bad words will succeed - but only back to
2246 the sender. These two mods are designed to annoy the perpitrators of the
2247 sort of filth as much as possible whilst not inconveniencing 'normal' users.
2248 4. Add expunge feature to kill. Deleting messages now marks a msg for
2249 deletion two days hence. To have the old behaviour, do a 'kill exp' or use
2250 the standard alias "expunge". This will cause the message to be deleted at
2251 the next queue message cycle.
2252 5. Put in prototype echo handling for direct connections using ExtMsg and
2254 6. fix msgs to g1tlh-2 (as opposed to g1tlh)
2255 04Oct01=======================================================================
2256 1. allow a residence time of (default) 2 days before actually deleting a msg.
2257 2. reduce the number R: lines on a bull from a bbs to 2 (the origin and the
2259 3. ignore deleted messages for queuing purposes
2260 4. store deleted status across restarts!
2261 5. make callsign checking more rigorous
2262 6. dup check PC49 (kill full)
2263 7. improved the regex matching of badwords (more efficient, better coverage)
2264 8. added default badword and badw_regex tables (as .issue files) which will
2265 activate unless there is one there already. It will NOT overwrite an existing
2266 file - so if you change it your changes will remain intact.
2267 03Oct01=======================================================================
2268 1. don't allow @WWW to become a 'TO' field...
2269 2. handle @gb7tlh.#35.eu type addresses as well
2270 02Oct01=======================================================================
2271 1. fixed the 'ever lengthening msg' syndrome and probably made the whole
2272 thing more reliable at the same time.
2273 2. do some restructuring of the msg system and upissue the version no.
2274 3. fix @xxxx syntax for bbs input
2275 01Oct01=======================================================================
2276 1. made login info not the default
2277 2. change the looping protoection for PC16/17/19/21 and also be more rigorous
2278 in who we accept which PC16/17/21's from.
2279 3. fix MAJOR disconnect bug introduced accidentally in the NP work.
2280 4. Try each badword with an S on the end as well and also check for 'f.u c'
2281 type things as well (this only works for a few wellknown english ones).
2282 5. Go back to the old way of caching commands (but without the silly warnings
2283 because I know better what I am doing now). This allows symbolic debugging
2284 of commands again without coredumps. Hurrah!
2285 6. Add badword handling for messages. Users will get rude messages back if
2286 they try to send naughty words in msgs. Incoming messages with badwords will
2287 be dropped on receipt and their contents logged.
2288 7. and if you swear 3 or more times you are unceremoniously logged out.
2289 30Sep01=======================================================================
2290 1. made some small bug fixes in rspf checking and also messages.
2291 23Sep01=======================================================================
2292 1. I have incorporated Steve's (K9AN) lastest sh/sun and sh/moon stuff which
2293 copes much better with some of the end effects that occur in these calc-
2294 ulations. You can now also see up to a year into the past or future. The
2295 results compare favourably with the US Naval Obs (unlike certain other
2296 software's output which "I would not want to use their results to aim my
2297 moon rocket..."). It also fixes some ambiguity about which day the results
2299 21Sep01=======================================================================
2300 1. fix set/lockout so that it is possible to lock out all SSIDs except those
2301 specifically unlocked and so that you don't need to lock the non-SSID call in
2302 order to lock an SSID call. So set/lock g1tlh will lock out all instances of
2303 g1tlh, g1tlh-1, g1tlh-15 etc except (for instance) unset/lock g1tlh-9.
2304 2. show/lock allows partial callsign matching so sh/lock gb7 will only show
2305 GB7* calls that are locked.
2306 3. Had a grand shift around for the start of NP.
2307 19Sep01=======================================================================
2308 1. put in some rudimentory rsfp checking for various things
2309 2. tried to do some fixes on console.pl - YOU WILL REQUIRE Curses 1.06 from
2310 CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then at cpan> install Curses).
2311 17Sep01=======================================================================
2312 1. Fixed help and apropos commands so that they default to english if
2313 the language is not english and help in the 'not english' language isn't
2315 2. added some help text for sh/newc.
2316 15Sep01=======================================================================
2318 2. found 1st bug, fixed unset/logininfo reseting itself after logout
2319 14Sep01=======================================================================
2320 1. added the start of script files on login/startup. You can now add
2321 commands (for example to set variables) to a file called
2322 /spider/scripts/startup. You can also put in scripts for a callsign which
2323 will be executed when that callsign logs on. A sample script is in the
2324 directory (you did remember to do cvs update -d?). User settable versions
2325 of this will happen when the general mechanism for doing that is available.
2326 2. Added set/unset/anntalk commands. If you unset/anntalk then you will
2327 no longer see many of the of talk like announces. Unfortunately you may
2328 miss the odd useful one as well (but since everything is repeated many times
2329 you probably won't :-)
2330 3. centralise the invalid callsign check so that g1tlh1 and similar calls
2331 will not be allowed to login anymore.
2332 4. Fiddle with the lockout mechanism so that set/login g1tlh also locks out
2333 g1tlh-1 -> g1tlh-15 UNLESS one of these is specifically unlocked.
2334 5. Make sh/log only show stuff that sh/ann, sh/talk, sh/rcmd doesn't.
2335 6. Make the scripts look for user and node_default files if there isn't a
2337 7. add the blank command which prints nn blank lines (default 1), this cmd
2338 can also print lines of characters: see help for examples.
2339 13Sep01=======================================================================
2340 1. did some work on making talk more intelligent and fixed a>b problem.
2341 2. fixed a nasty problem on input when being hit with full buffers of
2342 data (eg at init time with large lists of node/users on fast links).
2343 3. fixed realtime input filter changing.
2344 4. added announce->talk conversion for routable calls when announces of the
2345 form 'to g1tlh hello', 't g1tlh hello' or 'g1tlh hello' appear.
2346 This also suppresses similar announces for users whose callsign is not the
2347 one in the announce.
2348 5. Change the badwords interface to be the same as baddx, badspotter et al.
2349 added set/badword, unset/badword and show/badword. This routine will auto
2350 convert (and delete afterwards) the old badwords file.
2351 6. fix intermittant bullitin mail forwarding?
2352 11Sep01=======================================================================
2353 1. added IP address logging of connections
2354 10Sep01=======================================================================
2355 1. clear/* node_default and user_default now work.
2356 2. in acc or rej/* you can now use (comma separated) prefixes as well as lists
2357 of numbers for things like *_dxcc, *_itu and *_cq (eg: by_dxcc ve,w); just
2358 remember that countries like ve and w have lots of zones and itus!
2359 3. Added all the clear/* commands to help and added some comments about 2.
2360 4. All filters (including *_default ones) are now reinstalled on channels in
2361 realtime, so changing a filter does NOT require a disconnect and reconnect
2363 09Sep01=======================================================================
2364 1. Add show/dxstats command
2365 2. Add show/hfstats command
2366 3. Add show/vhfstats command
2367 4. Add show/hftable command
2368 5. Add show/vhftable command (BE WARNED, the first time you run one of these
2369 commands it will take some considerable time to complete, thereafter it will
2371 08Sep01=======================================================================
2372 1. Update the sgml docs on filtering a bit.
2373 06Sep01=======================================================================
2374 1. prevent nodes appearing as users from incoming PC16s
2375 2. Change ping averaging to be like TCP and become a smoothed RTT.
2376 3. Make all the Prompts in stat/* like output appear in alphebetical order
2377 4. Fix problem with 17m spots not appearing in sh/dx
2378 5. pump up eph dups everytime they re-occur and increase life to 180 secs
2379 04Sep01=======================================================================
2380 1. add delete/user command
2381 03Sep01=======================================================================
2382 1. make spot dups look back 5 mins.
2383 2. strip the top off each character in any text field of a Spot for duping.
2384 3. Try to make the routing tables more accurate for users that login to
2386 4. Make PC50s come out in one heap on all channels every 14 mins, instead of
2387 on the 14th minute in the connection time for each channel. This should
2388 reduce (slightly) the dups that are dumped.
2389 5. Speed up input queue processing (a lot).
2390 6. make set/isolate and acc/route mutually exclusive (and issue appropriate
2391 error messages) and fix set/iso on PC18 input.
2392 7. Improve stat/route_node and stat/route_user for diagnostics.
2393 8. strip top bit of comments in ann/spots.
2394 9. fix the announce filtering problem.
2395 10. Fix the double announcement of node disconnections?
2396 01Sep01=======================================================================
2397 1. Change build number calc (hopefully for the last time)
2398 27Aug01=======================================================================
2399 1. make rej/wwv and rej/wcy work
2400 26Aug01=======================================================================
2401 1. make all newly learned nodes locked out by default.
2402 2. add lock_nodes.pl which locks out all the nodes in the user file whose
2403 privilege is 1 or less and which isn't mentioned as an argument to the
2404 command on the command line.
2405 3. make set/node, set/spider and their friends unlock a node as well as make
2407 4. Make sh/log et al more efficient / less memory hungry (and the display
2408 the correct way round!)
2409 24Aug01=======================================================================
2410 1. Allow badmsg to reject on interface callsign ('I')
2411 20Aug01=======================================================================
2412 1. protect against PC41s with field[3] == field[2]
2413 2. Redo Julian stuff as proper objects
2414 3. Make the various Log display come out forwards instead of backwards
2415 4. Add the dbgclean routine to system cron to clear out all debug files
2416 more then 10 days old.
2417 19Aug01=======================================================================
2419 2. make isolation when there are no filters present work again?
2420 3. dup check PC16/17/19/21 !
2421 17Aug01=======================================================================
2422 1. Sort out PC41 handling to include type 5 records for QRA locators and also
2423 remove all filtering (but retain ephemeral dup checking).
2424 2. Improve format checking in latlong and qra locators.
2425 3. Sort sh/st so that sh/st by itself displays only the local call not the
2426 whole lot (all 17000+ users records in my case). SH/ST ALL does this.
2427 16Aug01=======================================================================
2428 1. send a forward/opernam for a logged in user once a month (when they next
2430 2. rearrange rcmd stuff to be more maintainable and also be certain that
2431 they are translated in both directions correctly for clx and ak1a style.
2432 3. Allow PC41s to be propagated and hope that the ephemeral dup filters
2434 15Aug01=======================================================================
2435 1. fix problem with talks not coming out anymore
2436 13Aug01=======================================================================
2437 1. fixed problem of dxspots not being echoed back to spotter (announces too)
2438 02Aug01=======================================================================
2439 1. correct manual and help references on accept/route and reject/route. Thanks
2440 to ea1dav for pointing out the errors
2441 2. make sure that the actual line is printed in grepdbg & watchdbg esp. with
2442 ALL the '^' and leading space characters as they really are
2443 30Jul01=======================================================================
2444 1. changes to manuals to add links etc. (g0vgs)
2445 23Jul01=======================================================================
2446 1. made ann,dx spots,wwv,wcy,wx more 'object oriented'.
2447 2. allow for 'enhanced clients' and tell them what sort of thing is being
2449 3. Allow debug info to be sent via interface to an enhanced client.
2450 21Jul01=======================================================================
2451 1. started a gtkconsole program. It appears to sort of work. Requires Gtk-
2453 2. start doing some spot statistical stuff.
2454 19Jul01=======================================================================
2455 1. changes to Admin Manual to reflect route filtering. Some alterations to
2456 the help files (g0vgs)
2457 09Jul01=======================================================================
2458 1. fix cron so that it allows stuff to be executed on the hour (ie min=0)
2459 06Jul01=======================================================================
2460 1. fix talk and routing problems to mycall
2461 2. add unset/privilege command to relinquish any sysop privileges you might
2462 have for the current session.
2463 05Jul01=======================================================================
2464 1. disconnect channels whose route node has disappeared
2465 29Jun01=======================================================================
2466 1. fix merge command
2467 28Jun01=======================================================================
2468 1. fix problems with users on more than one node
2469 27Jun01=======================================================================
2470 1. try adding an ARC mail hack
2471 2. slug the not here messages so they can't loopback
2472 25Jun01=======================================================================
2473 1. added automatic 'not here' message
2474 21Jun01=======================================================================
2475 1. fix (some) problems with 'init'
2476 2. fix stat/msg a bit more
2477 3. small change to PC28 generation to make sure that the subject always
2478 contains at least a blank
2479 16Jun01=======================================================================
2482 14Jun01=======================================================================
2483 1. changed debug api to (potentially) use less cpu time
2484 2. changed the spider.cgi in Arnold's borrowed java client to Ian's perl
2486 3. Added input route filtering
2487 4. put back the set/isolate logic into routing which is now overridable with
2488 filters whcih means a default filter is no longer generated. If you want the
2489 OLD behaviour, do rm /spider/filter/route/*.pl*, restart and try again.
2490 5. Add http_proxy to Internet.pm and allow sh/qrz to use an HTTP Proxy
2491 13Jun01=======================================================================
2492 1. fix init cnd rinit cmds
2493 2. add missing clear/route cmd
2494 10Jun01=======================================================================
2495 1. fix set/here and unset/here
2496 2. fix indirect routing to users two hops away
2497 09Jun01=======================================================================
2499 2. add set/debug filter so that you can see why your filters aren't working
2501 3. add ephemera deduping for all those PC41,24,50 etc etc broadcasts
2502 4. Fix a problem with the connect text being sent on outgoing connections
2503 (this confuses db0fhf amongst other things)
2504 5. catch deep recursion bugs before you run out of memory.
2505 6. Make sure that PC16|17|19|21 update as well as add and delete
2506 7. local announces by the sysop will always be displayed
2507 08Jun01=======================================================================
2508 1. first cut with new routing code. Created NEW_ROUTE branch
2509 2. added acc/route and rej/route commands
2510 3. added stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands to look at the routing
2512 07Jun01=======================================================================
2513 1. move userconfig.pl and nodeconfig.pl to stat/
2514 2. fix problem with locally connected users not being removed from the
2516 3. Fix the build calc to take into account subdirectories
2517 06Jun01=======================================================================
2518 1. add stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands
2519 2. add sh/userconfig command (to show backward links to nodes)
2520 3. add sh/nodeconfig command
2521 05Jun01=======================================================================
2522 1. add set/bbs command
2523 2. more work on Routing code.
2524 3. status/msg on its own will print the status of the msg system.
2525 4. add sh/newconfig command
2526 03Jun01=======================================================================
2527 1. Fix the problem with ExtMsg and unresolvable IP addresses, hopefully
2529 15May01=======================================================================
2530 1. set/lockout now prevents any outgoing connection taking place.
2531 2. Started the new routing stuff which will run in parallel for a while.
2532 3. changed the msg timeout arrangements so that it might not get stuck so
2534 4. add $DXMsg::bulltopriv global to make msgs to known callsigns private
2535 14May01=======================================================================
2536 1. fix problem with re-reading in db definitions for remote databases.
2537 2. try to prevent situations where two can (semi) successfully login, probably
2538 under load, and get a 'tried to connect whilst already connected' abort.
2539 3. change the max number of days to search for spots to 100
2540 11May01=======================================================================
2541 1. allow stat/msg on priv 1
2542 07May01=======================================================================
2543 1. set/page 0 switches off paging
2544 03May01=======================================================================
2545 1. It appears that for ages now, not enough PC19 and PC16s are being sent
2546 if you have more than one of them. Sigh..
2547 02May01=======================================================================
2548 1. put an upper limit on the number of concurrent errors allowed in command
2549 mode (20). This should disconnect runaway spot suckers....
2550 28Apr01=======================================================================
2551 1. fix an occasional problem with 'sorry connected to' messages
2552 23Apr01=======================================================================
2553 1. fix very long standing bug in storing and transmitting spots. The decimal
2554 point was left off :-(
2555 22Apr01=======================================================================
2556 1. Sysops can now have full privileges if there is a ExtMsg listener on
2557 localhost (or everything) and they telnet to localhost and login with their
2558 callsign. This means that they don't need a client anymore (for local access)
2559 2. added input spot filtering.
2560 3. Added run_cmd to DXCron which allows you to run any command on the system
2561 from the crontab. (Dunno why I didn't do this before).
2562 18Apr01=======================================================================
2563 1. added Ian M0AZM's Java Client (SpiderConsole)
2564 17Apr01=======================================================================
2565 1. made a slight speedup on write in Msg.pm (about doubled it)
2566 16Apr01=======================================================================
2567 1. make the correct error messages come out on reject/accept when people
2568 leave out keywords like 'on'.
2569 2. Fairly major changes to the documentation tree. Split the admin manual
2570 into 2 sections, Installation and Admin and merge the Windows stuff.
2571 15Apr01=======================================================================
2572 1. made some mods to the sgml documentation for 1.47
2573 2. added show/connect command
2574 11Apr01=======================================================================
2575 1. fixed more of the "xxx disappeared from yyy" messages
2576 2. altered the build no logic so that it always checksums the same files
2577 regardless of whatever else you might have in the directory.
2578 3. made shortcut at shutdown so that you don't get a storm of PC21s on busy
2579 nodes as each connection goes down. Just send a pc39 to each interface and
2581 4. changed action of SIG{INT} and SIG{TERM} so that they now work on MSWin32
2582 10Apr01=======================================================================
2583 1. altered PC21 logic somewhat to eliminate dup PC21s
2584 2. disconnect should remove dangling local users in the routing table.
2585 3. fixed nasty recursive timer bug
2586 4. added some extra info to make connect tracking a bit easier.
2587 5. improved docs on connect scripts a bit (to include agw connects)
2588 09Apr01=======================================================================
2589 1. changed lockfile name to cluster.lck (from .lock) for MSWin's benefit
2590 08Apr01=======================================================================
2591 1. added a quick installation guide to the admin manual and removed references
2592 to client.pl (g0vgs)
2593 01Apr01=======================================================================
2594 1. changed agwrestart semantics. You need to use main::agwrestart() in your
2595 crontabs rather than AGWMsg::init();
2596 2. try to thread winclient.pl for MSWin32.
2597 31Mar01=======================================================================
2598 1. added agwrestart command
2599 2. add Iains Windoze installation manual (g0vgs)
2600 3. various alterations to adminmanual and initial version of the CVS changes
2602 30Mar01=======================================================================
2603 1. fix errors on accept in ExtMsg and in Msg
2604 2. fix the non-blocking problems of connects (and other things in general).
2605 non-blocking only works for unix implementations at the moment.
2606 3. add rinit command (sends a PC20)
2607 4. improve debuging so that stuff is always escaped and a new 'raw' debug
2608 mode that shows everything sent and received in glorious hex and characters
2609 29Mar01=======================================================================
2610 1. add better tracking of AGW circuits (possibly)
2611 2. add set and unset/agwmonitor (ing) [for all the notice it seems to take]
2612 28Mar01=======================================================================
2613 1. AGW engine stuff now accepts incoming calls and at least attempts to do
2614 outgoing ones. YMMV.
2615 2. fixed 'always' telnet on a client line in a connect script
2616 27Mar01=======================================================================
2617 1. add first cut at an AGW Engine. Copy /spider/perl/AGWConnect.pm to
2618 /spider/local and edit it appropriately. You shouldn't need a login and passwd
2619 if you are using the default setup. It may allow incoming connects (and then
2620 again it may not - I don't have a reliable infrostructure to test with at the
2621 moment). The AGW Engine is a M$ thingy, but that don't preclude you connecting
2622 to it from a unix box.
2623 22Mar01=======================================================================
2624 1. edit the helpfile for set/debug and add help for show/debug
2625 2. Allow ^Z again on messages
2626 3. Added back onboard support for ax25 OUTBOUND connections. You will need
2627 exactly the same facilities as before (ie netrom_call, ax25_call suid root
2628 etc) but it is called direct from the cluster.pl - client.pl is DEAD!
2629 19Mar01=======================================================================
2630 1. Add 'not allowed' messages into sh/filter with callsign and reduce priv
2631 2. decode %xx characters in winclient.pl
2633 18Mar01=======================================================================
2634 1. minor changes to user and admin manuals. Added revsion numbers
2635 17Mar01=======================================================================
2636 1. put block check back in, try a work around for EWOULDBLOCK/EINPROGRESS
2638 16Mar01=======================================================================
2639 1. integrate build number into main cluster and change the PC18 to show
2640 version and build in the text portion
2641 14Mar01=======================================================================
2642 1. first cut at outgoing ax25 /external program connects
2643 2. slight change of interface to connect
2644 3. added a build number to sh/version
2645 13Mar01=======================================================================
2646 1. implemented first cut at non blocking connect
2647 2. removed memory leakage in connects
2648 3. add link IP address if available on who
2649 4. made the \r\n work correctly on External connections
2650 5. removed client.pl
2651 6. fixed memory leakages in DXMsg
2652 7. fixed pc39/21 handling
2653 8. fixed routing table issues and general disconnection tidy up
2654 10Mar01=======================================================================
2655 1. minor changes to the admin manual to reflect differences in distibutions
2656 thanks to pa3ezl (g0vgs)
2657 2. add (finally) the first draft of the usermanual (g0vgs)
2658 05Mar01=======================================================================
2659 1. do some major surgery on the connect logic to shorten the possibility of
2660 duplicate connects happening
2661 2. fix stupid error on sh/qrz queries that don't work
2662 04Mar01=======================================================================
2663 1. allow fallback to english for help
2664 03Mar01=======================================================================
2665 1. allow incoming and outgoing IP connects direct to cluster.pl
2666 2. fixed (long standing)a hole in PC17 handling
2667 3. added winclient.pl (actually just a very basic client) from Iain G0RDI
2668 4. Added Spanish as a language (thanks ea1dav) (g0vgs)
2669 5. ignore BUST(ED) spots
2670 28Feb01=======================================================================
2671 1. allow sh/c gb7 (ie show the config of all gb7 nodes)(for example)
2672 2. get rid of spurious DXHash 'uninitialised' messages if no corresponding
2674 3. changed policy of $censorpc in DXProt.pm so that badwords are looked for
2675 in all text announces etc.
2676 4. Unpad (remove excess spaces from) spotted callsigns in PC11.
2677 5. test for opertaing system in various places and do different if M$
2678 27Feb01=======================================================================
2679 1. allow partial node callsigns on sh/c (eg sh/c gb7)
2680 2. Changed Msg.pm to allow a more generalised interface with more than one
2682 3. Added IntMsg.pm to implement the internal connection management that is
2683 currently scattered about the cluster code.
2684 25Feb01=======================================================================
2685 1. Fixed watchdbg so that simple arguments work again
2686 22Feb01=======================================================================
2687 1. Added platform name to sh/version
2688 2. changed client.pl so that it send \r\n instead of \n on telnet connects
2689 3. added lineend '\r\n' command to connect scripts so you can override
2691 03Feb01=======================================================================
2692 1. Changes and additions to the manual and added a help file for sh/log (g0vgs)
2693 13Jan01=======================================================================
2694 1. Documentation alterations to match new commands etc (g0vgs)
2695 08Jan01=======================================================================
2696 1. Changed the way that badnodes, baddx etc work. There is a new general way
2697 implemented (dunno why I didn't do this before - hey ho...) as a consequence
2698 there are set/unset/show baddx (for bad dx callsigns) badnode (for dx from
2699 bad nodes) badspotter (for bad spotters of dx eg VE2STN). Expect more of
2700 this sort of thing...
2701 2. Added one to the copyright dates...
2702 06Jan01=======================================================================
2703 1. Fix set/obscount so it actually works.
2704 2. Allow different number formats for set/pingint eg: 5m for 5 minutes and
2705 120s for 120 seconds (and 1h for 1 hour).
2706 03Jan01=======================================================================
2707 1. Added a txt directory for txt versions of manuals (g0vgs)
2708 2. Various documentation changes
2709 02Jan01=======================================================================
2710 1. added a help file for forward/latlong and updated the admin manual to
2712 2. Add spot2csv.pl to convert spot files into tab delimited .csv format.
2713 3. Add show/route to see which interface a station is connected on.
2714 31Dec00=======================================================================
2715 1. add lat/long info to show/prefix
2716 30Dec00=======================================================================
2717 1. added latest version of the admin manual from Ian G0VGS.
2718 23Dec00=======================================================================
2719 1. don't route anything back down the channel it came from.
2720 2. and, in the process, fix some silly errors in routing converted rcmd PCs
2721 3. changed all occurrances of 'freq' in filter help to 'on' and corrected
2722 some errors (eg freq/ssb).
2723 4. added latest admin manual.
2724 18Dec00=======================================================================
2725 1. fix double printing of DB results
2726 2. add new style filtering for WWV and WCY to complete the set
2727 3. got the field nos right (hopefully) on Announces for filters
2728 05Dec00=======================================================================
2729 1. fix frequency hinting routine so it correctly handles things like 'on 23cm'
2730 where digits are the 'wrong' way round.
2731 2. made default max days to search for spots 3 months.
2732 3. added hex decodes for those pesky 'national' characters that aren't really
2733 in grepdbg and watchdbg.
2734 4. decide that we are using Latin-1 and therefore characters 0x80-0x9f are
2736 5. fix the announces so that they are all UPPER CASE for poor old DXTelnet.
2737 03Dec00=======================================================================
2738 1. change grepdbg and watchdbg so that you can see a number of lines before
2739 the condx that you are looking for so:-
2742 will show both the LOOP line and the preceeding 2 lines.
2743 2. add PCPROT to all error condx lines in DXProt.pm so that you can watch
2744 for them more easily.
2745 30Nov00=======================================================================
2746 1. remove %nn strings from dups of announces and spots
2747 2. remove check for ssids on PC41s
2748 29Nov00=======================================================================
2749 1. make some small changes to DXmsg to try to track delete problems?
2750 2. fix ann/full so it doesn't dup
2751 27Nov00=======================================================================
2752 1. alter sh/wcy output slightly
2753 26Nov00=======================================================================
2754 1. made it possible for sysop calls to be used on other nodes and still have
2755 anti loop checking on PC16/17.
2756 25Nov00=======================================================================
2757 1. -l <nnn> now works on C client
2758 2. -e toggles echo cancelling (normally on) on C client
2759 20Nov00=======================================================================
2760 1. added even more checking to PC16,17 and 39
2761 19Nov00=======================================================================
2762 1. improve reaping code a bit more.
2763 2. put some extra checking in the PC16,17,19,21 code.
2764 3. fix problem with the aliased user disappearing and loads of 'unitialised'
2765 messages coming out.
2766 16Nov00=======================================================================
2767 1. Alter the process reaping code in cluster.pl to use waitpid
2768 12Nov00=======================================================================
2769 1. Fix lack 't' action in Filter.pm
2770 08Nov00=======================================================================
2771 1. fix cosmetic errors in for/oper for 'users'.
2772 07Nov00=======================================================================
2773 1. removed sh/call because the owner isn't happy about us using it.
2774 2. change sh/qrz to the new interface. MUCH QUICKER! you will need a user id
2775 and password from qrz.com to use it and you will have to copy the
2776 /spider/perl/Internet.pm to /spider/local and alter it accordingly. Do
2777 remember to set $allow=1 as well! The new interface comes courtesy of Fred
2778 LLoyd, the proprietor of http://www.qrz.com
2779 06Nov00=======================================================================
2780 1. Added sh/qrz to the list of callbook services
2781 05Nov00=======================================================================
2782 1. 75% speed up on sh/dx !, lower memory usage as well!
2783 2. Fixed problem with clear/spot 0 (how did this one last so long!!!)
2784 3. add 'on' in accept/reject spots as synonym for 'freq'
2785 4. add the same speed up to general log printing
2787 04Nov00=======================================================================
2788 1. fix sh/filter so ity now works for any callsign (and not just connected
2790 2. Have only one is_callsign and not an iscallsign as well.
2791 3. Add set/hops and show/hops commands.
2792 4. Add unset/badnode command and put some help in for these commands
2793 03Nov00=======================================================================
2794 1. allow - in filter strings
2795 2. store only the filter expression NOTE BENE: you will need to clear all
2796 your existing filters and re-enter them!!!!!!
2797 3. Added announce filtering
2798 4. Fixed problem with announce filtering on output to the node
2799 02Nov00=======================================================================
2800 1. updated filtering logic. You will need to RECREATE your filters (clear/spot
2801 all, then start again) for testing.
2802 2. allow PC73 for DXNet
2803 3. added some help text for filtering and filtering spots in particular.
2804 01Nov00=======================================================================
2805 1. put PC11 field 2 check back to m for pc text.
2806 2. improve 'simple' callsign checking
2807 3. Added the first cut of the new user/sysop filtering code. This cut works
2808 for spots and the syntax is:-
2810 accept/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2811 reject/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2814 freq 0/30000 | hf | hf/cw | 6m,4m,2m
2825 channel GB7DJK,GB7BAA
2827 You can simply string these together on one line one after the other and
2828 there is an implied 'and', you can also string together with 'or' 'not' (or
2829 '!') and '(' and ')' - in otherwords an arbitrary expression.
2831 You can see what you have done with:
2833 show/filter [<call>]
2835 You can clear your work with:
2837 clear/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>|all]
2839 Have fun and someone please write the documentation.
2840 4. Added show/msg_status.pl sysop command (shows some info on what is busy in
2842 31Oct00=======================================================================
2843 1. add 0x8e to the list of characters we clobber (make xterm go into graphics
2845 30Oct00=======================================================================
2846 1. put in new Filter::it code and tested it. Now all we have to do is write
2847 the user access routines (oh and the help files!).
2848 29Oct00=======================================================================
2849 1. put in echo cancelling measures into the clients. This doesn't mean you
2850 shouldn't take steps to prevent echoing on node links, but it may help where
2851 (whatever you do) it still bloody echos! This is experimental.
2852 2. store dxchan and mynode as callsigns (and not references) in the routing
2853 tables and do some checking in accessors to see if we can capture some errors.
2854 3. tart up the stat/chan etc display to give more useful debugging info
2855 28Oct00=======================================================================
2856 1. updated show/sun and show/moon from stuff sent by Steve Franke K9AN
2857 2. added show/call which queries jeifer.pineknot.com for any call in the
2858 world (as opposed to UALR which only does US calls). Inspired by a bit of
2859 perl sent to me by Steve Franke (again!) and also Angel EA7WA who gave me the
2860 pineknot ip address.
2861 3. fixed clients so that they accept -0 as a valid SSID and then strip it off
2862 as though they had come in without (why has this taken so long to appear? How
2863 long have we been running this code ??????).
2864 27Oct00=======================================================================
2865 1. alter the code in clean_old of DXMsg system to see if we get some different
2866 behaviour with random crashing
2867 26Oct00=======================================================================
2868 1. if there is a 'connected' file in /spider/data then the client will send
2869 it out to the user after connection.
2870 25Oct00=======================================================================
2871 1. fix catchup and uncatchup commands so that they accept ranges
2872 24Oct00=======================================================================
2873 1. added cty.dat from http://www.k1ea.com/cty/index.htm to the prefix_data.pl
2874 data file and modified create_prefix.pl accordingly.
2875 2. the 'no text line' messages should now propagate correctly
2876 3. added the dxcc, itu and cq zone numbers for announcer and origining node
2877 on announce filters - see the /spider/filter/ann/*.issue files for more info.
2878 4. you can now specify a 'user_default.pl', 'node_default.pl' and
2879 'in_node_default.pl' in each of the filter directories
2880 23Oct00=======================================================================
2881 1. Added K5K as Kingman Reef
2882 1. Added K7K as Kure
2883 17Oct00=======================================================================
2884 1. force frames to go down the local interface when doing a route. This is
2885 particularly important for pings!
2886 16Oct00=======================================================================
2887 1. add a ':' after 'G7BRN de G1TLH' in a talk message.
2888 2. added /J to the list of things to ignore (as in G1TLH/J) in prefix
2889 processing (ie /J mean Jota not /JA [Japan]).
2890 3. change all INCOMING 00-08 0A-1F and 9B characters that make it past the
2891 intermediate client->server protocol to '.'.
2892 04Sep00=======================================================================
2893 1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
2895 02Sep00=======================================================================
2896 1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
2898 2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
2899 /spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
2900 ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
2901 sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
2902 are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
2903 ...k, ...ker, ...king).
2904 3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
2905 01Sep00=======================================================================
2906 1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
2907 28Aug00=======================================================================
2908 1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
2909 2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
2910 trying to disconnect themselves).
2911 3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
2912 (and transparently for spider nodes).
2913 26Aug00=======================================================================
2914 1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
2915 2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
2916 3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
2917 4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
2919 25Aug00=======================================================================
2920 1. moan about and then delete empty message files
2921 24Aug00=======================================================================
2922 1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
2923 automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
2924 23Aug00=======================================================================
2925 1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
2926 announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
2927 2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
2928 20Aug00=======================================================================
2929 1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
2930 2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
2931 and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
2932 3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
2933 19Aug00=======================================================================
2934 1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
2935 2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
2936 18Aug00=======================================================================
2937 1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
2938 2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
2939 not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
2940 3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
2941 15Aug00=======================================================================
2942 1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
2943 14Aug00=======================================================================
2944 1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
2945 2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
2946 13Aug00=======================================================================
2947 1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
2948 better for longer...
2949 05Aug00=======================================================================
2950 1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
2951 03Aug00=======================================================================
2952 1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
2954 2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
2955 (as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
2956 02Aug00=======================================================================
2957 1. put back hex check exception for PC29
2958 01Aug00=======================================================================
2959 1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
2960 generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
2961 execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
2962 2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
2963 31Jul00=======================================================================
2964 1. try to fix paging problem.
2965 2. added help for spoof and set/forward
2966 3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
2967 4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
2968 30Jul00=======================================================================
2969 1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
2970 2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
2971 3. bomb proofed the type command.
2972 4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
2973 5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
2974 6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
2975 7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
2976 8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
2977 9. Increase default hop counts all round.
2978 10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
2979 11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
2980 29Jul00=======================================================================
2981 1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
2982 and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
2984 2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
2985 sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
2987 3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
2988 28Jul00=======================================================================
2989 1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
2990 date/time translation to leave just the time.
2991 27Jul00=======================================================================
2992 1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
2993 2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
2994 3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
2995 4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
2996 5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
2998 6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
2999 7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
3000 8. Added sgml files into the source tree
3001 9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
3002 26Jul00=======================================================================
3003 1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
3004 2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
3006 3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
3007 4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
3008 duplicates and possibly corruptions.
3009 5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
3010 export the user data in ascii from cron.
3011 6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
3012 7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
3013 8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
3014 9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
3016 10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
3017 11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
3018 update the current user file.
3019 12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
3020 cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
3021 a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
3022 /spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
3023 13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
3024 14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
3025 15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
3026 corruptions and duplicates.
3027 25Jul00=======================================================================
3028 1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
3029 2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
3031 3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
3032 20Jul00=======================================================================
3033 1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
3034 2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
3035 3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
3036 4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
3037 5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
3038 blanks at the end of lines.
3039 25Jun00=======================================================================
3040 1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
3041 channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
3042 2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
3043 Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
3044 19Jun00=======================================================================
3045 1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
3046 2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
3047 via telnet in client.pl
3048 18Jun00=======================================================================
3049 1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
3050 actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
3051 Client.pl has got to go....
3052 2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
3053 17Jun00=======================================================================
3054 1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
3055 2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
3056 3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
3057 information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
3058 4. Added node type to links and who
3059 5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
3060 rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
3061 14Jun00=======================================================================
3062 1. fixed sh/node crash
3063 2. fixed RTT in who.pl
3064 13Jun00=======================================================================
3065 1. fixed looping bug in C client on ending.
3066 12Jun00=======================================================================
3067 1. Added RCMD for clx
3068 2. Added WCY processing
3069 3. Added new node types (clx, spider, dxnet, arcluster)
3070 4. Store echo settings
3071 5. Store pagelth settings
3072 6. sort out source of DXVars for callbot.pl
3075 11Jun00=======================================================================
3076 1. removed extraneous DXDebug from DXUtil
3077 2. added help for set/echo
3078 3. Centralised all spot, wwv and ann dup handling into respective packages.
3079 4. Created new AnnTalk package (for above and OOing announce and talk
3081 5. Fixed problem with outputting lines with | in them to console.pl.
3082 10Jun00=======================================================================
3083 1. got rid of some more nasty bugs in sh/qra.
3084 2. fixed 9A3xx to always be Croatia (and not Haiti!).
3085 09Jun00=======================================================================
3086 1. change some print commands in DXMsg to dbg('err'...
3087 2. overloaded confess, croak et al into DXDebug and removed Carp from
3088 everywhere and checked that the necessary debugging really does go into
3089 the debug files now.
3090 3. changed print statements in cluster.pl to dbg('err',... so they go into
3091 the debug files as well.
3092 4. Altered the logic around duplicate spots, reduced the length of comment
3093 checked to 20 characters (this should solve some problems including those
3094 people sucking ar-cluster spots with prefixes in the extreme rh end).
3095 08Jun00=======================================================================
3096 1. fixed problem with binary characters from cluster->client
3097 2. added set/echo and unset/echo commands
3098 3. echo login characters on login: prompt for C client
3099 4. Send \r\n on telnet connections for C Client
3100 5. Make echoing the default option (for M$ telnet clients :-()
3101 11May00=======================================================================
3102 1. fixed looping in Msg.pm (at last)
3103 10May00=======================================================================
3104 1. wrote a cross between 'tail -f' and grepdbg so that you can watch the
3105 debug files for particular strings and only have them print out.
3106 05May00=======================================================================
3107 1. rewrote parts of Msg.pm and client.c so that the messages no longer use
3108 a length word at the front of each one. They are simply strings of characters
3109 separated by a \n. No binary characters are allowed (they are encoded as %nn)
3110 a la HTTP. This hopefully cures Arnold's problem and also make it more
3111 secure anyway. It also paves the way for the ax25/ip multicast client.
3112 30Apr00=======================================================================
3113 1. put some extra checks and balances in to message send routine in Msg.pm to
3114 see if I can prevent the error seen by Arnold (which I think is only likely to
3115 appear in heavily loaded sites).
3116 25Apr00=======================================================================
3117 1. Changed reply so that you can reply to more than one address privately
3118 31Mar00=======================================================================
3119 1. fixed nnn-mmm in kill (erase/delete) msgs so that mmm is also deleted and
3120 not just nnn -> mmm-1.
3121 2. Added an autosplit to message importing so that messages are split
3122 automagically into bits if the filename used in the import directory starts
3123 with "split". This will add a [1/5] type string on the the end of the subject.
3124 3. dedupe more aggressively on the text of Spots so that only the 1st 27 chars
3125 of text are considered (as opposed to the whole lot).
3126 30Mar00=======================================================================
3127 1. altered client.pl connect code so that it doesn't falsely recognise
3128 /spider/src/client as a 'client' instruction.
3129 28Mar00=======================================================================
3130 1. Added buffering to client
3131 2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
3132 27Mar00=======================================================================
3133 1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
3134 2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
3135 3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
3136 4. A more robust version of the C client.
3137 5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
3138 6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
3139 7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
3140 be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
3141 26Mar00=======================================================================
3142 1. first cut of C client
3143 18Mar00=======================================================================
3144 1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
3145 08Mar00=======================================================================
3146 1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
3147 2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
3149 10Jan00=======================================================================
3150 1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
3151 08Jan00=======================================================================
3152 1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
3153 2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
3154 into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
3155 it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
3156 allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
3157 03Jan00=======================================================================
3158 1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
3159 2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
3160 of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
3162 3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
3163 01Jan00=======================================================================
3164 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
3166 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
3167 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
3168 "external" interface routines.
3169 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
3170 11Dec99=======================================================================
3171 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
3172 10Dec99=======================================================================
3173 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
3174 02Dec99=======================================================================
3175 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
3176 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
3177 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
3179 01Dec99=======================================================================
3180 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
3181 2. added www.qrz.com
3182 3. added www.buck.com
3183 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
3184 28Nov99=======================================================================
3185 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
3186 DXCluster->get_exact.
3187 24Nov99=======================================================================
3188 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
3189 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
3190 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
3191 for a field or test on a field and set another.
3192 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
3193 unread private mail does.
3194 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
3195 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
3196 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
3197 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
3198 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
3199 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
3200 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
3201 6. Added show/time command
3202 21Nov99=======================================================================
3203 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
3204 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
3205 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
3206 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
3208 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
3209 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
3210 20Nov99=======================================================================
3211 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
3212 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
3213 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
3214 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
3215 means disable pinging (not recommended).
3216 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
3217 level or passwd in stat/user.
3218 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
3219 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
3220 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
3222 19Nov99=======================================================================
3223 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
3224 2. Added rtt to who.
3225 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
3226 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
3227 18Nov99=======================================================================
3228 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
3229 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
3230 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
3231 after 12 minutes of nil response.
3232 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
3233 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
3234 17Nov99=======================================================================
3235 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
3236 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
3237 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
3238 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
3239 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
3240 14Nov99=======================================================================
3241 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
3242 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
3243 12Nov99=======================================================================
3244 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
3245 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
3246 08Nov99=======================================================================
3247 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
3248 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
3249 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
3250 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
3251 07Nov99=======================================================================
3252 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
3253 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
3255 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
3256 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
3257 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
3258 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
3259 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
3260 enquire on a local or remote database.
3261 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
3262 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
3263 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
3264 04Nov99=======================================================================
3265 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
3266 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
3267 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
3268 03Nov99=======================================================================
3269 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
3270 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
3271 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
3272 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
3273 31Oct99=======================================================================
3274 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
3276 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
3277 input spot filtering works.
3278 24Oct99=======================================================================
3279 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
3280 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
3281 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
3283 22Oct99=======================================================================
3284 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
3285 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
3286 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
3287 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
3288 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
3289 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
3290 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
3291 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
3292 to them as you get requests.
3293 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
3294 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
3295 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
3296 21Oct99=======================================================================
3297 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
3299 2. implemented sh/muf command.
3300 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
3301 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
3302 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
3303 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
3304 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
3305 20Oct99=======================================================================
3306 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
3307 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
3309 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
3310 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
3311 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
3312 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
3313 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
3314 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
3315 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
3316 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
3317 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
3318 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
3319 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
3320 18Oct99=======================================================================
3321 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
3322 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
3323 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
3324 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
3325 (request from G8TIC)
3326 21Sep99=======================================================================
3327 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
3328 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
3329 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
3330 30Aug99=======================================================================
3331 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
3332 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
3333 29Aug99=======================================================================
3334 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
3335 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
3336 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
3337 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
3338 if they have been sent as bulls.
3339 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
3340 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
3341 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
3342 25Aug99=======================================================================
3343 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
3344 24Aug99=======================================================================
3345 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
3346 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
3347 17Aug99=======================================================================
3348 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
3349 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
3351 19Jul99=======================================================================
3352 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
3353 and will look for the appropriate strings.
3354 17Jul99=======================================================================
3355 1. Started database integration.
3356 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
3357 16Jul99=======================================================================
3358 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
3359 embedded %XX characters).
3360 15Jul99=======================================================================
3361 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
3362 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
3364 10Jul99=======================================================================
3365 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
3366 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
3367 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
3368 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
3369 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
3370 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
3371 05Jul99=======================================================================
3372 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
3373 the msg and cluster node tables.
3374 04Jul99=======================================================================
3375 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
3376 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
3377 01Jul99=======================================================================
3378 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
3379 29Jun99=======================================================================
3380 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
3381 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
3382 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
3383 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
3384 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
3385 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
3387 28Jun99=======================================================================
3388 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
3389 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
3390 3. added colours to things.
3391 27Jun99=======================================================================
3392 1. added WWV filtering
3393 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
3394 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
3395 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
3397 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
3398 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
3399 messages queued up that are probably old.
3400 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
3401 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
3402 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
3403 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
3405 21Jun99=======================================================================
3406 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
3408 20Jun99=======================================================================
3409 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
3410 18Jun99=======================================================================
3411 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
3412 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
3413 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
3414 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
3415 that channel before re-initialising.
3416 4. add init command.
3417 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
3418 15Jun99=======================================================================
3419 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
3420 and dates of incidents).
3421 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
3423 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
3424 14Jun99=======================================================================
3425 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
3426 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
3427 08Jun99=======================================================================
3428 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
3429 03Jun99=======================================================================
3430 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
3432 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
3433 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
3434 dropped from those broadcasts.
3435 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
3436 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
3437 01Jun99=======================================================================
3438 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
3439 31May99=======================================================================
3440 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
3441 the channels that they are supposed to.
3442 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
3443 connecting node's privilege level).
3444 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
3445 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
3446 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
3447 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
3448 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
3449 25May99=======================================================================
3450 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
3451 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
3452 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
3453 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
3454 4. Added who command
3455 23May99=======================================================================
3456 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
3458 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
3459 23May99=======================================================================
3460 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
3461 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
3462 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
3463 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
3464 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
3465 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
3466 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
3467 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
3468 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
3469 and from callsigns etc.
3470 22May99=======================================================================
3471 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
3472 2. added show/files and type commands
3473 21May99=======================================================================
3474 1. made set/nodx work again.
3475 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
3476 18May99=======================================================================
3477 1. Added announce dup checking.
3478 2. Added system announce filtering.
3479 08May99=======================================================================
3480 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
3481 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
3482 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
3483 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
3484 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
3485 or user lines as input.
3486 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
3487 05May99=======================================================================
3488 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
3489 02May99=======================================================================
3490 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
3491 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
3492 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
3493 30Apr99=======================================================================
3494 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
3496 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
3497 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
3498 26Apr99=======================================================================
3499 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
3500 very little checking.
3501 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
3503 25Apr99=======================================================================
3504 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
3505 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
3506 20Apr99=======================================================================
3507 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
3508 corruptions/missing users less likely.
3509 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
3510 3. check dates much more rigourously.
3511 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
3512 15Mar99=======================================================================
3513 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
3514 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
3515 3. Added sysop command
3516 02Mar99========================================================================
3517 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
3518 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
3519 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
3520 25Feb99========================================================================
3521 1. added NL language stuff.
3522 2. added set/language
3523 21Feb99========================================================================
3524 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
3525 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
3526 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
3527 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
3528 17Feb99========================================================================
3529 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
3530 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
3531 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
3532 15Feb99========================================================================
3533 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
3534 14Feb99========================================================================
3535 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
3536 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
3537 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
3538 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
3539 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
3540 11Feb99========================================================================
3541 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
3542 local configs to new connections.
3543 08Feb99========================================================================
3544 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
3545 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
3546 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
3547 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
3548 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
3549 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
3550 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
3551 30Jan99========================================================================
3552 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
3554 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
3555 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
3556 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
3558 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
3559 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
3560 18Jan99========================================================================
3561 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
3562 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
3564 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
3565 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
3566 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
3567 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
3569 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
3570 the -M semantics are rather strange!
3571 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
3572 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
3574 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
3575 the call is connected to the node.
3576 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
3577 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
3578 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
3580 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
3581 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
3582 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
3584 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
3585 17Jan99========================================================================
3586 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
3587 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
3588 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
3590 3. Started filter and Database code.
3591 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
3593 07Jan99========================================================================
3594 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
3595 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
3596 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
3598 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
3599 06Jan99========================================================================
3600 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
3601 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
3602 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
3603 them)(thank you G0RDI).
3604 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
3605 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
3606 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
3607 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
3608 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
3609 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
3610 03Jan99========================================================================
3611 1. Upped the version no !!!!
3612 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
3613 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
3614 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
3615 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
3616 28Dec98========================================================================
3617 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
3618 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
3619 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
3620 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
3621 27Dec98========================================================================
3622 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
3623 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
3624 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
3626 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
3627 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
3628 23Dec98========================================================================
3629 1. Reindented various things
3630 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
3631 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
3632 22Dec98========================================================================
3633 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
3634 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
3635 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
3637 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
3638 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
3639 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
3641 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
3642 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
3643 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
3644 problems with the leading '0'!
3645 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
3646 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
3647 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
3648 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
3649 I have added a merge command.
3650 21Dec98========================================================================
3651 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
3652 2. Added more docs for client program.
3653 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
3654 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
3655 4. issue release 1.13
3656 20Dec98========================================================================
3657 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
3658 cluster and running a few commands).
3659 2. Added per node hop control.
3660 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
3661 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
3662 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
3663 19Dec98========================================================================
3664 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
3665 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
3666 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
3667 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
3668 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
3669 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
3670 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
3671 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
3672 14Dec98========================================================================
3673 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
3674 a real telnetd on port 23.
3675 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
3676 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
3677 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
3678 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
3679 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
3680 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
3681 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
3682 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
3683 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
3684 different scripts for the same callsign.
3685 8. Added sh/wwv command
3686 13Dec98========================================================================
3687 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
3688 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
3689 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
3691 4. fixed telnet connections
3692 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
3693 6. Added some more help
3695 12Dec98========================================================================
3696 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
3697 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
3698 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
3699 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
3700 disjoint cluster networks)
3701 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
3702 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
3703 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
3705 07Dec98========================================================================
3706 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
3708 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
3709 should stop clients hanging on exit.
3710 3. Added Alias support for help
3711 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
3712 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
3714 06Dec98========================================================================
3715 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
3716 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
3717 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
3718 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
3719 5. Started adding more help
3720 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
3721 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
3722 05Dec98========================================================================
3723 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
3724 04Dec98========================================================================
3725 1. Started Changes file
3726 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
3727 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
3728 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
3729 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
3730 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
3731 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
3732 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl