1 25Mar23=======================================================================
2 1. Changed the default of X and Y (in item 2 below) to 27 and 20 respectively.
3 24Mar23=======================================================================
4 1. Restore perl regex version of is_ipaddr. This *should* allow windows
6 2. Added cmd entry rate limiting. If a user sends X commmands in Y secs then
7 they are disconnected without notice. The defaults are X
8 ($DXCommandmode::maxcmdcount) = 16 and Y ($DXCommandmode::cmdinterval) = 9.
10 These can be changed by the startup script.
12 These default values are set generously deliberately to allow certain user
13 programs to get with the program and reduce the number of cmds that they
14 issue on connection down to something reasonable. For instance, I cannot
15 see why things like name, qth, lat/long/QRA (amongst several other sticky
16 user attributes that only need to be entered once) are sent on every login.
18 These default values WILL reduce over time.
19 23Mar23=======================================================================
20 1. Fix DXCIDR brokenness introduced recently, speeded up DXCIDR::sort, allow
21 sh/badip 2a05:dfc7:402a::1 45.134.225.96 159.69.38.160 to test individual
22 IP address as well as show the default (of every badip).
23 2. Speed up and be more strict with input for is_ipaddr(<ip address>).
24 22Mar23=======================================================================
25 1. Fix warning in DXUtil::difft.
26 21Mar23=======================================================================
27 1. Fix DXUtil is_ipaddr function which was accidentally included in previous
29 2. Do not extract IP addresses to create routing info as default.
30 17Mar23=======================================================================
31 1. Try to nail down incoming PC92s that attempt to change the type of $myalias
33 2. Do some housekeeping with the startup and finish debugging to make the
34 order of messaging more logical. Also disable some messaging caused by
35 other errors/circumstances causing various object handles disappearing.
36 3. Make sure that $mycall and $myalias are upper case (and moan about it if
38 10Mar23=======================================================================
39 1. I am aware that there are windows nodes out there on mojo (brave, impetuous
40 that you are) and wget is not an easy option to download badip files. So,
41 through the power of mojo I give you the new 'download' command. As it
42 stands at the moment, it will download a file from a webserver and place
43 it in /spider/local_data. If it downloads successfully, it will overwrite
44 any file with that name in /spider/local_data. Needless to say this is a
47 24 * * * * run_cmd('download http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
48 24 * * * * run_cmd('download http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay')
49 24 * * * * run_cmd('download http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global')
50 25 * * * * run_cmd('load/badip')
52 would be an obvious use. But it can also be used to download spot, USDB
53 and other data as well. If you do use it then you will still need to
54 do a spawn_cmd in crontab for the conversion programs, but that too is
56 07Mar23=======================================================================
57 1. Fix odd (and old) regression dx command (line ending 59+++) '++' being the
59 2. Allow multiple commands on one line when separated with the 2 character
61 3. Move a few init things about on startup so that more parameters are
63 4. Put some debug comments before loading various caches (that might take a
64 longgggg time) and then tell people how long each cache load took. This
65 should reduce the worry that something is "wrong" when there is a delay
66 (such as searching for announces).
67 06Mar23=======================================================================
68 1. Fix filter error reporting, including incrementing concurrent error count
69 if there are actually any detected parse errors.
70 2. Fix warnings on difft.
71 3. Add the origin of any incoming SP if it is emailed to the recipient.
72 4. Oops I accidently restored one path of the node being disconnected that I
73 fixed below (because of changes to filtering).
74 04Mar23=======================================================================
75 1. Fixed regression caused by too many command errors in (startup) script
76 files. This is caused by much stricter checking of commands entered both
77 by users AND scripts. If there more concurrent errors ie. greater than
78 $DXChannel::maxerrors (default 10) then that user will be disconnected.
80 Unfortunately this could include the $mycall (node) channel if there were
81 too many command users in the startup script. The example I looked at had
82 a load of HTML pasted into it.
84 For various reasons the only manifestation of this problem was that pings
87 This has been fixed. I am grateful to Fulvio HB9DHG for letting me break
88 his node for an hour or so until I worked out what was going on.
89 03Mar23=======================================================================
90 1. Fix DXDebug::DXDebug not found errors in rarely used functions. This is
91 also an interaction with differing versions of Mojolicious. Clearly this
92 has never happened to me (sigh).
93 2. Allow non-privileged users to use ping (no arguments) and get 'PONG nn'
94 where nn is an incrementing counter or if there is an argument it will
95 return 'PONG <argument>' - all in UPPER CASE. See help ping for more
97 02Mar23=======================================================================
98 1. Fix sh/dx/30 problem. I.e. allow old style version of sh/dx 30.
99 01Mar23=======================================================================
100 1. Revert PC92 A D and PC92 C record flags back to defaults.
101 2. Deal with users that send gibberish.
102 3. Fix show/425 (default) URL.
103 4. Improve Spot deduping.
104 28Feb23=======================================================================
105 1. Default ip addresses ON in PC92 C records, disable PC92 A D record output.
106 2. Add CTY-3308 prefixes.
107 3. Fix gen_usdb_data.pl (add missing use DXUtil), update current location of
108 official FCC databases.
109 4. Remove the duplicate IP addresses across exits and relays from badip lists
110 during generation by create_master_badip_files.pl.
111 14Feb23=======================================================================
112 1. Attempt to be more M$ Windows compatible. This basically is to do with the
113 unfortunate fact that most of the Windows perl cannot do, or simulate
114 spawning (running another process in parallel) and/or Mojolicious cannot
115 handle coping with one or more versions of these simulations.
117 I don't have a windows perl available to me at moment so I can only
118 simulate running under windows by setting a variable.
120 You need to know that running any version of DXSpider on Windows will do
121 all long running commands in line. Much as the 'master' branch does. So
122 running large nodes on Windows boxes with versions of perl that do not
123 support running spawned processes continues to be contra-indicated. Much
124 as it has ALWAYS been.
125 04Feb23=======================================================================
126 1. Fixed sh/log so that callsigns beginning with a digit (or several) are
127 printed rather than being ignored.
128 This affects: show/ann, chat, log, rcmd and wx
129 03Feb23=======================================================================
130 1. Fix is_ipaddr to accept trailing '::' on IPV6 addresses.
131 2. Fix and extend the TEST program 'showdx' so that it now works on the mojo
132 branch. Type 'showxd -?' for more information or read the source. This is
133 NOT a user program, but is will accept most sh/dx expressions.
134 3. Fix create_master_badip_files.pl so that it does not emit IP addresses
135 that the system is_ipaddr() function fails.
136 01Feb23=======================================================================
137 1. Harden DXCIDR (badip stuff) against format errors in downloaded badip files
138 downloaded using wget from the crontab. If these problems persist PLEASE
139 TELL me and send me examples of the errors that end up in the badip files.
140 30Jan23=======================================================================
141 1. Add ip addresses to outgoing PC93 messages
142 2. Get rid of (some of?) the uninitialised warnings
143 3. Add the ability to set the (time) locale to UTC or LOCALTIME by adding
144 the string LOCALE = UTC or LOCALE = LOCAL(TIME)? to your local crontab
146 NOTE: this will affect ALL timings in both the system as well as your
147 local crontabs. Changing the LOCALE will make no difference to the system
148 crontab other than using localtime rather than UTC. Which is fine by me.
150 You can see what crontab is doing and which LOCALE is in use by doing a
151 'set/debug cron' in a console and running a 'watchdbg cron' in another
153 25Jan23=======================================================================
154 1. Add a switch to enable the routing of generated PC92 A/D records and also
155 prevent the rebroadcast of incoming ones.
157 set/var $DXProt::pc92_ad_enable 0
159 to disable PC92 A/D records.
160 2. Add a switch to enable the addition of IP addresses to PC92 C records.
162 set/var $DXProt::pc92c_ipaddr_enable 1
164 to enable the addition of IP addresses to outgoing PC92 C records.
166 ## These two features are experimental, but will become the default if
167 ## some other changes and these are successful
168 24Jan23=======================================================================
169 1. Optimise the PC11->PC61 promotion code, improve readability of the
170 debugging when 'set/debug pc11' is active.
171 2. Remove spurious '$' character at the end of Listeners.pm (thanks Kin).
172 3, Fix show/ik3qar command
173 20Jan23=======================================================================
174 1. Add the variable @main::localhost_names to allow other IP addresses to
175 be treated in the same way as localhost in item 1 on 19Jan23 below. NOTE
176 you must include ALL the normal localhost names + any other interface
177 names that you might want to include:
179 set/var @main::localhost_names qw(127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.1.30)
181 using the qw() construction is easier than:
183 set/var @main::localhost_names ('127.0.0.1', '::1', '192.168.1.30')
185 but either will work. You can define as many IP addresses as you like and
186 they can be IPV4 or 6.
188 You do NOT need to fiddle with this unless you specifically have more
189 than just the normal definitions of localhost. So for 'normal' nodes with
190 one external interface, you DO NOT NEED TO DO ANY OF THIS.
191 2. Added CTY-3304 prefix data
192 3. Fix Bad IP address system so that one can carry on as normal without
193 Net::CIDR::Lite (or libnet-cidr-lite-perl on debian based systems)
194 19Jan23=======================================================================
195 1. Introduce aliasing for localhost in DX Spots and outgoing PC92 A records
196 on login. There are two variables which can be set with the alias to use:
197 $main::localhost_alias_ipv4
198 $main::localhost_alias_ipv6
199 These can be set in the /spider/scripts/startup, but this is only
200 necessary if the node has more than one interface, or virtual hosts. If
201 there is ONLY ONE ipv4 and/or ipv6 IP address on the node machine then
202 these variables will be automatically populated on first use. But the SAFE
203 thing to do is to set them in the startup file.
205 THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL...
206 18Jan23=======================================================================
207 1. Make sure than *every* channel has an IP address. Thank you (I think) Kin
208 for pointing out that PC92 A records were not going out with IP addresses.
209 I'm guessing that other things (like spots) had a similar problem.
210 15Jan23=======================================================================
211 1. Fix strange errors for carp on missing route_*_cache files on startup.
212 14Jan23=======================================================================
213 1. Fixed route PC11 promotions so that a new PC61 is actually generated and
214 also sent instead of the original PC11 (to PC61 capable nodes).
215 13Jan23=======================================================================
216 1. Periodically store Routing tables and, if they are young enough (def: 3hrs)
217 autotically restore them on restart of the node. This will short circuit
218 the need to rebuild the routing tables from scratch on every restart -
219 which is normally for something like software update.
220 2. Fix pc11 debugging stats with the correct figures. Sigh... Also move some
221 of the totals to a different place.
222 3. Add show/spotstats command which gives the current spot statistics shown
223 during pc11 debugging (which means you don't need to set/deb pc11 unless
224 you really want that extra noise).
225 12Jan23=======================================================================
226 1. Regularise 'set/debug pc11' output to track all the routes through PC11 and
227 PC61 processing and statistics.
228 11Jan23=======================================================================
229 1. Improve (?) the PC11 -> PC61 upgrading process that delays incoming PC11s
230 for a very short time in the hope that a PC61 will come in to be used
231 instead. It will also upgrade a PC11 if we have an uptodate IP address
232 that has come in from the routing system PC92s. do a 'set/debug pc11' to
234 2. I have chosen a definitive list of TOR exits and relays which can be
235 downloaded from http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit,
236 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay and finally, for those IP
237 addresses that are deemed to be 'bad':
238 http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global. I have added the following
239 lines to my /spider/local_cmd/crontab:
241 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
242 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay')
243 24 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global')
244 25 * * * * run_cmd('load/badip')
246 The tor files are downloaded from https://lists.fissionrelays.net/tor/ at
247 15 minutes past every hour, please would you use some other minute than
248 23 or 24 to get your own local copies.
250 A 'set/debug badip' will show you what is being blocked.
251 3. Fix set/badip so that it appends new IP addresses correctly.
252 10Jan23=======================================================================
253 1. Add baddx on incoming callsign in RBN.
254 2. Search for all /spider/local_data/badip.* files to allow more control on
255 which IP addresses are detected. e.g. badip.torexit, badip.torrelay as well
256 as baddx.local. The suffixes, apart from .local (created by set/badip) are
257 completely arbitrary. You can use whichever suffix name you like. This is
258 a more useful arrangement for the ever increasing sources of "bad ip
259 addresses" that we need to deter.
261 NOTE: all badip.<suffix> are read only EXCEPT badip.local (which can be
262 altered in real time by the sysop using set/badip <ip address> ...).
263 If one uses periodic crontab jobs to update any other badip.<suffix>
264 files from web resources then don't forget to 'load/badip' afterwards.
265 3. Add a /spider/data/baddx.issue file which can be copied to (or used as a
266 basis to create) /spider/local_data/baddx
267 09Jan23=======================================================================
268 1. Finish implemention of DXCIDR ip address filtering. This works on both
269 logins (treated the same as locked out - i.e. just disconnected) and also
270 with PC61s where these sentences are just dropped. Also attempt to prevent
271 any *following* PC11s with the same data getting through.
273 YOU WILL NEED either 'cpanm Net::CIDR::Lite' or debian/ubuntu based distros
274 'apt install libnet-cidr-lite-perl'. RedHat based systems will have similar
277 2. Recognise PC18s coming from CC Clusters more nicely.
278 04Jan23=======================================================================
279 1. Fillout DXCIDR, attach checks in PC61 and logins. Login that fail will
280 simply disconnect, like locked out callsigns
281 2. Fix qrz.com URL in stock Internet.pm.
282 3. Fix DXHash issues (baddx, badnode, badspotter etc)
283 30Dec22=======================================================================
284 1. Add more BadWords (regex) checks.
285 01Dec22=======================================================================
286 1. Re-add some debugging to see which incoming PC protcol sentences are
287 being dumped because of any bad content (words or calls) if debugging
288 option 'nologchan' is set.
289 2. All debugging for badwords has the word 'badword' in it. So that one can
290 do a 'grepdbg -1 badword' and one should see who said it and all of what
291 they said. Watchdbg will also work with this.
292 3. My latest recommended additions to the badword list includes:
293 RU STOP SPOT DISGRACE CRM CRIM CRUD SUBHUMAN FASCIST DEGENERATE CATTLE CNT
294 23Nov22=======================================================================
295 1. The BadWord system has been rewritten. This change is pretty radical and
296 needs to be used with care as a word that is entered will be reduced to the
297 minimum sized string needed to match that word.
299 This is effective a sysop command changeable version of the file badw_regex
300 but in a much more sysop friendly form. The (un)set/badword <word>...
301 commands now update the /spider/local_data/badword.new file in real time
302 without having to mess about with editing files and running load/badword.
303 load/badword still works, but you should now never need it.
304 19Nov22=======================================================================
305 1. "Fix" Badword detection in spots and announces etc.
306 NOTE: setting $DXCommandmode::maxbadcount to 0 (default 3) will disable
307 autologout on swearing. But any (detected) swearing will be logged.
308 User generated swearing will not be propagated, not will incoming
310 2. Fix is_ipaddr so that it accepts more (most?) valid IPV6 addresses that
311 actual real IP addresses that might appear as endpoints.
312 3. Add CTY-3237 prefixes.
313 06Jun22=======================================================================
314 1. Fix show/wcy so that it works even if no wcy broadcasts have been received
316 01Jun22=======================================================================
317 1. Fix show/(v)hfstats commands.
318 2. Add CTY-3221 Prefixes.
319 07Feb22=======================================================================
320 1. (re)add set/seeme and show/seeme commands which don't appear to have
322 03Feb22=======================================================================
323 1. Improve/add the help text for grepdbg and watchdbg.
324 31Jan22=======================================================================
325 1. Set $RBN::respottime to 3 minutes. NOTE change of name from
327 2. Allow callsigns connected to a node with an SSID to get SEEME RBN spots
328 for their base callsigns. So G1TLH-2, G1TLH-7 will get **SEEME** RBN spots
329 if G1TLH is spotted on the RBN system - even is are both connected to the
330 node and G1TLH is not. Each call is unique and each callsign (variation)
331 must have done a set/seeme + set/skimmer. .
332 29Jan22=======================================================================
333 1. Implement RBN set/seeme which displays any passing RBN spots for your
334 callsign in "raw" format.
335 28Jan22=======================================================================
336 1. Add Capabilities Line to logged in users.
337 2. Make absolutely sure that all DB_Files are closed correctly.
338 3. Introduce (un)set/debug rbnchan to control the visualisation of raw RBN
340 25Jan22=======================================================================
341 1. Fixed grepdbg so that it does what -help says it does.
342 24Jan22=======================================================================
343 1. Change Local::pcprot() calling conventions to be the same as the rest of
344 software (see any 'sub handle_nn' function in DXProtHandle.pm.
345 2. Corrected some interpolations in Messages.
346 3. Tried to make users file deletes and updates more stable.
347 22Jan22=======================================================================
348 1. Refine spot display to retain the ':' and also reduce the likelyhood of
349 of misalignment by using the available space in the 39 characters more
350 intelligently. This is WIP.
351 21Jan22=======================================================================
352 1. Fix version tracking in PC92
353 2. Bring the major parts of master and mojo together to make maintenance a
354 bit less challenging. This does add anything extra to mojo, but it's still
356 18Jan22=======================================================================
357 1. fix (un)set/registered.
358 09Jan22=======================================================================
359 1. Add the New Year CTY-3201 prefix data.
360 08Jan22=======================================================================
361 1. I don't think there are any more warnings...
362 06Jan22=======================================================================
363 1. Fix the last of any frequent warnings caused by yesterday's modifications.
364 05Jan22=======================================================================
365 1. Mark nodes that send PC92 K records as spider. These will include VE7CC
366 nodes. NOTE: there appear to be user records marked as user or other sorts
367 of node, which (now) are actually spider (compatible) nodes and will be
369 2. Adjust nodes currently marked as spider nodes, but are sending versions
370 not in the spider range of versions on PC92 A records as AK1A.
371 3. Try to undo some damage where users have been autocreated with similar
372 attributes as nodes (locked out with privilege set to 1). This will
373 slowly fix this problem over time, but see item 4 for a 'big bang'
375 4. It has come to my attention that there are a large number of users (of
376 all sorts) that have incompatible SSIDs. See 03Jan22/4 for details.
378 These are now being scrubbed out of the users file and also will present
379 as their normalised selves. If a -0* SSID is encountered then, if the
380 normalised version of that call is not present, it will be renamed to
381 that normalised call. If the normalised version of that user record is
382 already present, the un-normalised user record (-0*) will be removed.
383 5. Make export_users do a batch clean (as in 3. above) and also get rid of
384 (default) 12+ year old unaccessed user records and (default) 2+ year old
385 "empty" records (with no qra/latlog/qth or handle).
387 NOTE: if you do an manual export_users (as opposed to the automatic one
388 done once a week), do not be alarmed by the number of old (i.e. more than
389 12 years old) callsigns that it will get rid of. In my case it was about
390 ~2/5th of the users file. Still left me with over 100,000 "active" users.
392 In you are a bit twitchy about this, the code will copy the current
393 user_json and user_json.ooooo to user_json.keep and user_json.backstop
394 respectively. These files will never be overwritten unless you remove one
395 or both, when they will be regenerated on the next export_user.
396 04Jan22=======================================================================
397 1. Fix issue in the RBN (and probably other places) with callsigns that
398 contain trailing / in callsigns like: OH0K/6, K2PO/7 etc.
399 2. Regard strange callsigns like DR4W-HB (seen in skimmer spots) as invalid.
400 This *should be* something like HB9/DR4W or (spit) DR4W/HB9.
401 3. Fix the (probably) spurious locking out of users that are unknown to this
402 node, that come in from other nodes. These create new user records which
403 where then automatically locked.
404 03Jan22=======================================================================
405 1. Allow overrides (on modern versions of perl) with things in DXVars.pm, such
406 $clusterport. This is really only of use for people trying to run more than
407 one instance of DXSpider on the same machine.
408 2. Fix who command to make RBN connections as RBN and not USER.
409 3. Prevent other nodes claiming that $myalias or $mycall is a different type
410 (user or node) from changing our route table and thence the user type.
411 4. Normalise callsigns of incoming connections to G1TST if G1TST-0 or G1TST-00
412 amd G1TST-2 if G1TST-02. There are 800+ instances of callsigns with extra
413 0 characters in the SSID in my users file. Allow SSIDs up to 99.
414 02Jan22=======================================================================
415 1. Fix dx bug introduced to handle dx by ip <ipaddr> for webclusters.
416 2. Remove _add_thingy dbg message from general view.
417 3. Increase sh/ann cache to 130 to cope with some client programs' profligate
418 need to fill their users' screens with needless erm... data.
419 01Jan22=======================================================================
420 1. Fixed missing ';' in spoof
421 30Dec21=======================================================================
422 1. Try to fix (nuke) tabs in comment field.
423 28Dec21=======================================================================
424 1. Fix issues with wwv & wcy updates into the cache.
425 2. Add a simple sh/announce cache to stop spawning when used (especially) in
427 27Dec21=======================================================================
428 1. Fix "kwalitee control" issue in /spider/cmd/dx.pl.
429 2. Make sh/wcy and sh/wwv cacheble for simple queries.
430 3. Fix set/nodxxxxxx etc.
431 22Dec21=======================================================================
432 1. Add the possibility to do "sender verify" that spots (and later on, other
433 things like announce etc) are coming from spotters that exist on the node
434 that the PC11/61 says it does. At the moment, this is advisory as many
435 users seem to be on web clusters and many of them do not send PC61 and also
436 don't update the node's routing tables that normal node usage would do.
437 2. Prioritise PC61 spots over PC11 spots wherever possible. Also promote PC11
438 spots to PC61 where the spotter's IP is known.
439 3. Add a shell script "perlbrew-dxspider" that can be used for starting the
440 node when using perlbrew (i.e. more modern perls) on older distros such
442 4. Allow to "dx by <spotter> ip <ip address> <qrg> <spot call> <comment>.
443 This is added as a convenience measure for webcluster authors while waiting
444 for the internal websocket interface (or because they cannot use that).
445 This can only be used by suitably privileged users.
446 This likely to be a temporary measure and will be immediately withdrawn if
447 there is any sign of abuse.
448 11Dec21=======================================================================
449 1. Removed dependency on perl Git package.
450 2. Force code to change directory to $DXSPIDER_ROOT || '/spider'. Also force
451 git -C $root describe.
452 3. Change git commands AGAIN to work on old perls (which mojo won't work on,
453 but it makes my life easier).
454 4. Change version strings to include the perl version in use.
455 10Dec21=======================================================================
456 1. Fix the output of set/dxgrid, set/usstate and set/dxcq or set/dxitu to how
457 it was always supposed to be since 2003.
458 09Dec21=======================================================================
459 1. Moved isregistered to DXChannel for safety...
460 08Dec21=======================================================================
461 1. Get to the bottom of why ssid'd calls were using the base call's
462 credentials. This should now work as expected.
463 06Dec21=======================================================================
464 1. Improve console.pl scrolling. Split long lines (eg on announcements.
465 04Dec21=======================================================================
466 1. Fix illogicalities in USDB creations and make sure that O_CREAT on tie does
467 NOT encounter an existing file to barf about. Even though it shouldn't.
468 Thanks Howard WB3FFV.
469 2. Fixed a typo in show/registered that prevents a list of callsigns being
470 searched for. Got rid of some over complex code. Thanks Fabrizio iZ0UIN.
471 3. Fix long line wrapping in console.pl
472 03Dec21=======================================================================
473 1. Move motd and issue files to local_data if not already there.
474 30Nov21=======================================================================
475 1. Fix sh/dx with callsigns that have /p or VE/G1TLH in them.
476 2. Add unset/ak1a, unset/arcluster aliases and some minimal help for UNSET/
477 SPIDER, NODE, ARCLUSTER, AKIA and also SET/USER.
478 26Nov21=======================================================================
479 1. *Really* change spot display format and sh/dx format "back the way they
480 were. But They won't stay that way for long!!!! There are four (yes, count
481 them) completely unused spaces at the end of the line!!!!
482 25Nov21=======================================================================
483 1. Restored spot format back to the way it was.
484 2. Added CTY-3127 prefixes
485 24Nov21=======================================================================
486 1. Make /spider/perl/create_sysop.pl work on a base git cloned tree.
487 2. Add /spider/local /spider/local_cmd /spider/local_data to git.
488 3. Make user supplied console width (set/width) sticky.
489 19Nov21=======================================================================
490 1. Add the ability of console.pl to resize and have dx spots also resize so
491 that the comment field's size will increase accordingly. Sh/dx amd sh/mydx
492 also work similarly. If you make the console width smaller or wider then
493 spots already on the screen will not resize.
494 2. For client programs that parse the output (why? use set/ve7cc to get more
495 easily machine parsed output), a new command "set/width <width>" is
497 18Nov21=======================================================================
498 1. Add a dx spot cache which will store 2 days worth (configurable) of spots.
499 This is then used by the vast majority of simple sh/dx queries without
500 using a sub process. A simple sh/dx is any sh/dx that does not have an
501 "expression" such as "sh/dx g1tlh". So "sh/dx", "sh/dx 200", "sh/mydx" will
502 always run in the main program via the cache. Certain client programs (no
503 names, no pack drill) will notice the difference immediately. It's also a
505 2. set/badspotter or set/badnode will work for RBN input.
506 3. RBN input with invalid QRGs will be dropped with a nice friendly message
507 rather than a scary exception message about multiplication thrown by one
508 of the libraries that I use.
509 4. Added CTY-3126 prefixes.
510 5. Silently ignore self spotting below 1240000Khz (change
511 $Spot::minselfspot to 0 to disable or some other freq in Khz). NOTE this
512 will appear as a spot to the spotter's feed, but will not be passed on.
513 15Jul21=======================================================================
514 1. Fix long standing bug in crontabs that commands with " rather than ' around
515 strings could cause those commands not to work.
516 2. Add CTY 3117 prefixes.
517 15Mar21=======================================================================
518 1. Fix DXUtil::localdata so that it does actually prefer the latest version
519 of a file regardless of whether it is in /spider/data or /spider/localdata.
520 2. Add CTY-3105 prefixes.
521 05Mar21=======================================================================
522 1. Fix DXCron::spawn_cmd so that more than one spawn_cmd can be active at a
523 time. This affects many nodes where lots of regular spawn_cmds happen at
524 a time and this prevented crucial things like 'start_connect' from working!
525 2. Sort user lockout issues to cope with all likely scenarios - including
526 "phantom" SSID working.
527 3. Fix "close_gracefully" error messages which are useless, but benign. These
528 happen (mainly) when outgoing connects timeout.
529 24Feb21=======================================================================
530 1. modify RBN timing arrangements
532 There are two new twiddle pots:
534 $limbotime (default 5*60 secs) which allows potential spots to
535 hang around longer to allow $minqual *different* skimmers to spot
536 them. At which point they are emitted. This is to catch the "slow
537 burning" spots where a call is spotted by different skimmers but
538 separated in time by more than $dwelltime - in fact maybe by
541 $maxqual (default 9 skimmers) which short circuits the normal
542 hard maximum $quality (9 skimmer spots) and $dwelltime (10secs)
543 to allow a spot that has $maxqual *different* skimmers (usually
544 as the result of a burst from the RBN) to defeat $dwelltime and
545 be emitted the moment that condition is satisfied. There maybe
546 a better name for this.
547 21Feb21=======================================================================
548 1. add data section on 160m in bands.pl.
549 07Sep20=======================================================================
550 1, Change interface to watchdbg & grepdbg slightly so that multiple search
551 regexes are ANDed rather than ORed together. ORing is easily achieved
552 already by the usual regex pattern 'PATT..|PATT..|..' whereas ANDing could
553 not be done as easily without resorting lots of 'PATT.*PATH' things which
554 would not necessarily get what was wanted.
555 2. Make sure that the pc92 C record only contains nodes and users and not
556 other extranoeus things like skimmers...
557 15Aug20=======================================================================
558 1. Simplify the skimmer scoring mechanism.
559 13Aug20=======================================================================
560 1. Improve the (displayed) RBN frequency weighting the skimmers' frequencies
561 w.r.t majority view on each spot. Any skimmer that disagrees with a
562 gets docked a 'point' from their 'good' score (if any) and have a 'point'
563 added to their 'bad' score. This score is then taked into account during
564 the 'choosing the real frequency' process. If a skimmer agrees with the
565 majority the process is reversed. To see this in action: set/deb rbnskim
566 06Aug20=======================================================================
567 1, Add CTY-3013 Prefixes
568 2. Make RBN more efficient. Start the process of skimmer node performance
569 caching. Add minimum quality allowed (at 2), which will be overrideable.
570 The format of the rbn_cache has changed and so a full restart will occur.
571 3. Collect channel input/output stats. New command: show/data_stats to show
573 4. Add local::lib qw{/spider/perl5lib} to store cpanm loaded modules just for
574 DXSpider. This is done so that updates needed by future changes can be done
575 as the sysop user and doesn't have to be done as root. This paves the way
576 for UPDATE.pl which will pull down new modules that it needs automatically.
577 When it's written, which will be soon.
578 29Jul20=======================================================================
579 1. Add show/rbn command that allows one to see who is online and configured
580 for RBN. See help sh/rbn for details.
581 2. Fixed issue with set/ve7cc mode adding unwanted newlines to output.
582 3. Attempted to make the QRG normalisation more "intelligent". This would be
583 sooooooooo much easier if skimmers were calibrated more accurately.
584 4. Added CTY-3012 prefixes.
585 23Jul20=======================================================================
586 1. fix Filtering so that it does less of what it was doing badly, thus
587 the perl interpreter to do more of the work. Which means you *should* be
588 able to define more or less any allowable operation for that type of
589 filter. Which is a complicated way of saying: you can now use brackets.
590 2. Regex expressions now appear as readable text in sh/filter.
591 3. Make the RBN status file JSON, rather than DD format. In future versions
592 it will also be VERSIONed to enable more features to be added
594 4. Add show/rbn command to allow sysops to see who is using rbn.
595 11Jul20=======================================================================
596 1. Fix (embarrassing) gratuitous '#'s in bands.pl
597 2. IMPORTANT: certain PC92 strings can crash DXSpider if the nologchan debug
598 category is set (which reduces debug files to sizes that non-developers can
599 reasonably store (especially during big contests)),
600 10Jul20=======================================================================
601 1. Fix console.pl permissions problem when running as another user not in
602 debug mode. Console.pl WILL NOT WORK in debug mode unless it is running
604 08Jul20=======================================================================
605 1. "Finish" the RBN system :-)
606 2. This includes enabling the coarse selection of spot modes using set/wantrbn
607 with arguments like 'set/wantrbn cw beacon'. This limits your output to
608 just CW, BCN and DXF modes.
609 3. The RBN spot is now cached. With a following wind, this means that even a
610 node restart, done in a timely fashion (within a few minutes) will not
611 cause a "cache warmup" delay for users on a restart.
612 4. Added the "full fat" set/wantrbn command and aliased it to 'set/skimmer'.
613 I use both terms (whenever I remembered) in the help text.
614 5. Help text has been written.
615 6. The UPGRADE.mojo file has been tweeked to point out the users file format
617 7. Merge in users.v3j to the mojo branch.
618 8. Add CTY-3011 prefixes.
619 07Jul20=======================================================================
620 1. Fix show/node command.
621 2. Fix show/cluster command to take into account the presence of skimmer nodes
622 which are a new category of thing which is neither a node nor a user.
623 06Jul20=======================================================================
624 1. Add RBN.mojo with information of the RBN capabilities of DXSpider.
625 05Jul20=======================================================================
627 2. Add HAPROXY "real ip" type 1 handling for incoming connections.
628 04Jul20=======================================================================
629 1. Give console.pl (or dx) a good going over with a bog brush to *finally*
630 (cough) make it work correctly with a full 80 column window (and not just
631 to a width of 79 really). Also fix scrolling.
632 28Jun20=======================================================================
633 1. Merge mojo with users.v3j to remove all vestages of Storable from DXSpider
634 in an effort to make the whole storage thing more reliable (and also a
635 bit faster). The user file will be auto-upgraded on restart. This may take
636 up to 20 seconds on slower hardware (and maybe a bit longer on huge user
637 files). On my 180,000 odd users, on my hardware, it takes 4 seconds.
638 2. The DXQSL system storage is also upgraded, Please run
639 /spider/perl/create_dxqsl.pl in a spare shell. This will recreate the
640 dxqsl.v1j file. Run 'load/dxqsl' in the console to activate it.
641 17Jun20=======================================================================
642 1. Change the Spot file reading mechanism back to the default of using 'tac'.
643 08Jun20=======================================================================
644 1. Fix show/mydx (lack of) filtering bug.
645 2. Add qra locator to prefix_data.pl.
646 3. Add 4 digit qra square for spotted callsign if show/dxgrid is enabled.
647 4. Fix general filtering bug where erroneous input causes crashing.
648 03Jun20=======================================================================
649 1. Make sure that all possible regexes get passed across to the search engine.
650 2. Fix out of order logging on sh/log queries spanning more than one month.
651 3. Do not read backwards on sh/dx, reading forwards seems a 1/3 quicker.
652 4. Add <ms>, <tr> and <es> shortcuts to sh/dx (e.g sh/dx <tr> on 2m).
653 02Jun20=======================================================================
654 1. Fix the small whoopsie in sh/dx.
655 01Jun20=======================================================================
656 1. Fix sh/dx iota and qra. This completes the conversion of sh/dx's limited
657 "old style" parsing to using Filter style parsing with something that
658 allows expressions include brackets ( and ) as well as the 'not' keyword.
659 NOTE: the precedence rules are the same as perl's '!', '||' and '&&'
661 31May20=======================================================================
662 1. Improve links command layout slightly.
663 2. Issue an *accurate* UPGRADE.mojo with all the new packages included!
664 3. Fix issue with sh/dx
665 30May20=======================================================================
666 1. Fix sh/dx! It appears that there is a long standing problem with sh/dx not
667 actually return all the answers it should. I have also had a request to
668 allow / enable the "not" keyword (just like the filtering system dones).
670 Now this was one of the earliest modules that I wrote and it took quite
671 a bit of work to tease out the important bits and then use the Filter
672 module (as in acc/spot) to generate the sh/dx filtering expressions. This
673 seems to have been done.
675 NB This will likely not work if you are using a SQL backend to do sh/dx
676 commands. This was never actually an official feature. It is now
678 29May20=======================================================================
679 1. Please install Math::Round and Data::Structure::Util. Instructions are
680 available in UPGRADE.mojo.
681 2. ** Withdrawn ** user file format change to json not yet committed.
682 20May20=======================================================================
683 1. Backport convert-users-v3-to-v4.pl to allow creation of the new json
684 formatted *text* based user file from the old v3 DB_File and Storable
685 version. This can be done either online (with the node running) or offline
686 with the node stopped. This is in preparation for the next update of the
687 mojo branch. Running this program just *BEFORE* doing your next update of
688 the mojo branch *should* ensure a seemless transition to the Storable &
689 DB_File free version of the users file.
690 2. Show git branch in show/version.
691 3. Add CTY-3010 changes.
692 17May20=======================================================================
693 1. Backport DXSubprocess to change serialisations.
694 Currently the internals of Mojo::IOLoop::Subprocess defaults to
695 using Storeable as its cross-process argument and data serialisaion
696 method. It can use others. This update reverts back to the
697 original ForkCall method of using JSON.
698 10May20=======================================================================
699 1. Added basic changes so that users *could* have multiple connections to the
700 same node if it is allowed. This is work in progress and is there to see
701 if it deals with some networking problems encountered on very high volume
702 sites which can see more than 1000 users (although the problems can occur
703 with many hundreds or by the practices of certain ISPs). More information
704 will be forthcoming if I get to the bottom of what's REALLY going on and
705 whether this is (or maybe just one part of) the solution. It won't be
706 ready for general use until then.
707 2. Fixed the script import error reported by Joaquin (EA3CV?), by the simple
708 expedient of restoring the version from the master branch.
709 09May20=======================================================================
710 1. Show the route by which this PCxx came in progress debugging reports. In
711 some other words: the spot/wwv/wcy/ann message arrived first from this
713 2. Improve progress WWV & WCY messages.
714 3. Stop random node isolations (at least in one place)
715 08May20=======================================================================
716 1. Tidy up routing table
717 2. Add new argument to show/version (ALL or list of regexes) that allow you
718 to see the version and build nos of all nodes on the system.
719 07May20=======================================================================
720 1. Revert changes made since 25Apr concerning IP address reconciliation.
721 25Apr20=======================================================================
722 1. Add maximum no of users on node to show/cluster.
723 2. Add ability to show last n lines of debugging ring buffer.
724 3. Remove redundant wpxloc.dat file.
725 24Apr20=======================================================================
726 1. Add 'progress' debugging for showing that stuff is happening in nologchan
727 a.k.a ringbuffer only mode.
728 2. Fix grepdbg so that no regex argument simply lists the file.
729 3. Add CTY-3008 prefixes.
730 22Apr20=======================================================================
731 1. Fix the module search path in update_sysop.pl
732 2. Add latest prefixes CTY-3007
733 3. Fix unset/startup command. This will only work for users' start up scripts
734 things like user_default or startup must be edited or removed by hand.
735 21Apr20=======================================================================
736 1. Finally fix the "actually tranmit" any output (like from 'logout' files)
737 to users before disconnecting. This also means that disconnecting nodes
738 now receive the (totally redundant, but hey) PC39 reason for disconnection.
739 20Apr20=======================================================================
740 1. Speed up sh/log (including chat, rcmd, ann etc) that search the system
741 log files, by removing a completely redundant subsystem and also leveraging
742 the core operating system utility 'tac', if it's available.
743 19Apr20=======================================================================
744 1. The long haul that is the mojo branch has started up again. It's something
745 to do during this lockdown.
746 2. The problems and instabilities around running commands that worked in
747 forked processes, when used other than by normally logged in users (e.g.
748 in the local crontab), have been fixed.
749 3. If a /spider/local_data/logout file is present then its contents will be
750 sent to the user on logout.
751 4. Add the ability to sh/dx origin or ip (address).
752 5. Retire the use of the deprecated Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall in favour of using
753 the supported equivalent in Mojolicious 7.26 and above. Which means you
754 will need to upgrade Mojo to at least the version. The current version is
755 8.36 and is known to work.
756 10Sep19=======================================================================
757 1. Improve DXSql database filtering to exclude most via <locator> type
759 2. Add CTY-2913 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
760 14Jul18=======================================================================
761 1. Add CTY-2808 prefixes + wpxloc.raw
762 16Jun18=======================================================================
763 1. add more modes to rbn.pl
764 23Jan18=======================================================================
765 1. Add CTY-2802 prefixes
766 27Oct17=======================================================================
767 1. Get correct hostname support and privilege levels on web connects.
768 26Oct17=======================================================================
769 1. Start (serious) work on web interface. Make the necessary changes to allow
770 a local webserver to connect and get its own style of messages.
771 11Aug17=======================================================================
772 1. Add default systemd service file file
773 10Aug17=======================================================================
774 1. check for disconnecting flag in more places
775 31Jul17=======================================================================
776 1. Fixed create_usdb.pl path specifications
777 2. add CTY-2708 prefixes
778 12May17=======================================================================
779 1. Fix sh/425 (mostly)
780 2. Add CTY-2706 prefixes
781 05May17=======================================================================
782 1. Add CTY-2705 prefixes
783 04Apr17=======================================================================
784 1. Add CTY-2704 prefixes
785 17Mar17=======================================================================
786 1. Add latest cty.dat & wpxloc.raw
787 21Feb17=======================================================================
788 1. Fix sh/dx on 14050 so that it does what one expects.
789 2. Add CTY-2702 prefixes
790 15Feb17=======================================================================
791 1. Update UPGRADE.mojo a bit
792 2. Add local::lib so that it can be used for non-root installations.
793 09Jan17=======================================================================
794 1. Fix mojo branch clean install issues (failing to find $main::data et al)
795 02Jan17=======================================================================
796 1. Add CTY-2615 prefixes
797 2. Add rbn.pl - an experimental rbn deduplicating spot filter.
798 26Dec16=======================================================================
799 1. Fix some possible routes to $myalias callsigns becoming nodes.
800 22Nov16=======================================================================
801 1. Add CTY-2614 prefixes
802 21Nov16=======================================================================
803 1. Add CTY-2613 prefixes
804 17Nov16=======================================================================
805 1. Change method (again) of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl. Split out
806 main process from children and display each separately.
807 16Nov16=======================================================================
808 1. Change method of get processor seconds in cmd/mrtg.pl
809 18Aug16=======================================================================
811 2. put back msg total in & total out for mrtg and background mrtg
812 3. add dxcc == ADIF country code.
813 16Aug16=======================================================================
814 1. Mega change to push all local data in $root/local_data and where there
815 is duplication with system data (still in $root/data) then use whichever
816 is newer. This will move stuff (permanently) like spots and other DXLog
817 files to local_data as well as the userfile, DX QSL file and usdb stuff.
818 25Jul16=======================================================================
819 1. Add some timing stats to cmd spawn_cmd.
820 08Jul16=======================================================================
821 1. Add latest wpxloc.raw
823 28Mar16=======================================================================
824 1. Fix get/keps.pl so that it does the right fetch
825 25Mar16=======================================================================
826 1. Rework DXCron::spawn command to use Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall
827 04Jan16=======================================================================
828 1. Add CTY-2601 prefix file
829 02Jan16=======================================================================
830 1. fix new URL for sh/425 command
831 30Dec15=======================================================================
832 1. Add CTY-2516 prefix file
833 2. Try to stop and also reset node call user records back to 'S'
834 3. Fix multiple on_disc events in AsyncMsg.pm
835 02Jun15=======================================================================
836 1. Extend regex for quit to allow other commands starting in 'q'.
837 2. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
838 26May15=======================================================================
839 1. Add CTY-2506 prefix file
840 01Mar15=======================================================================
841 1. Add CTY-2503 prefix file
842 13Feb15=======================================================================
843 1. Fix problem with sh/dx <call> if people are logging spots to a SQL database
844 3. Added CTY-2502 prefixes.
845 3. My late father would have been 102 today.
846 27Nov14=======================================================================
847 1. Add CTY-2415 prefix list
848 25Nov14=======================================================================
849 1. Add CTY-2414 prefix list
850 21Nov14=======================================================================
851 1. Add CTY-2413 prefix list
852 21Oct14=======================================================================
853 1. Add CTY-2011 prefixes
854 16Sep14=======================================================================
855 1. Add CTY2410 wpxloc.raw + cty.dat
856 2. remove autoflush from logs
857 16Sep14=======================================================================
858 1. Fix (now) missing error_handler
859 30Aug14=======================================================================
860 1. add CTY-2409 prefixes
861 2. add new wpxloc.raw
862 19Jul14=======================================================================
863 1. Use JSON::XS for ForkCall serialisation in DXCommandmode.pm
864 19Jun14=======================================================================
865 1. Fix EOF detection of incoming nodes.
866 2. Attempt to autogenerate Version.pm with *correct* values (instead of the
867 the git id of the previous commit). Oh, and do it on every commit or pull.
868 17Jun14=======================================================================
869 1. Add CTY2405 prefix changes
870 2. Arrange for all file searching routines based on sh/dx or sh/log to be
871 non-blocking. This should allow incoming and outgoing protocol to
872 continue flowing when such a command is run.
873 3. Added some usable code to show/wx (finally).
874 4. Make stats cmds (sh/v?hfstats, sh/v?hftable) non-blocking.
875 5. Make sh/isolate, sh/registered, sh/lockout non-blocking.
876 6. Fix shutdown command.
877 16Jun14=======================================================================
878 1. Get AsyncMsg working for HTTP type ephemeral connections
879 21Apr14=======================================================================
880 1. Add CTY-2405 prefix list
881 08Mar14=======================================================================
882 1. Add newer version of wpxloc.raw with some missing prefixes added.
883 07Mar14=======================================================================
884 1. Add new version of wpxloc.raw
885 2. Fix a small crash with Spot::dup
886 12Jan14=======================================================================
887 1. Fix minor issue with dx command when used in a script, as found by
889 2. Fix (rather serious) error in import_cmd that did not reset callsigns
890 correctly in $main::me.
891 30Dec13=======================================================================
892 1. Add CTY2312 prefix changes
893 19Nov13=======================================================================
894 1. Add CTY2311 Prefix changes - needed for CQWW 2013
895 09Oct13=======================================================================
896 1. Add CTY2310 prefix changes
897 13Sep13=======================================================================
898 1. Added CTY2309 prefix data, together with its associated wpxloc.raw file.
899 10Sep13=======================================================================
900 1. Add the get/keps command, which allows a sysop to get the latest AMSAT
901 keplarian elements either on demand or periodically in the crontab.
902 10Sep13=======================================================================
903 1. Fix sh/time such that no arguments print details for the caller.
904 09Sep13=======================================================================
905 1. Make all the Net::Telnet based commands (sh/425, sh/contest, sh/db0sdx,
906 sh/wm7d, sh/ik3qar) asynchronous, so that they no longer pause the node
907 while they go off and query the internet for results.
908 06Sep13=======================================================================
909 1. Fixed sh/contest so that it works again. How it ever worked at all is
910 a bit of a mystery. Now possible to type sh/cont dec or sh/cont dec 2013
911 (with month and year in any order). Please comment out any $contest_host
912 or $contest_url variables you may have in /spider/local/Internet.pm (if
913 you have one, that is). It will not work with the previous values.
914 2. Added CTY2308 prefix changes.
915 3. Added (back) internal function support inside commands. This allows
916 commands to create functions inside the <cmd_name>.pl files. There are
917 now also standard function names that can do special things.
918 24Jul13=======================================================================
919 1. Alter default node address in client.c from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1".
920 21Jul13=======================================================================
921 1. Fix Msg.pm to allow IPV6 addresses again (how did it ever work?).
922 2. Add latest CTY2307 prefix changes.
923 3. Other changes including (some) more prefix files, 4mm band data and
925 4. Add ip address in links.pl
926 31May12=======================================================================
927 1. Added CTY2210 prefix changes
928 29May12=======================================================================
929 1. Added CTY2209 prefix changes
930 10Apr12=======================================================================
931 1. Added DXSql/Pg postgres Spot collection interface from Wijnand PD0MZ.
932 2. Add CTY2206 prefix changes
933 13Mar12=======================================================================
934 1. add CTY2204 prefix changes + new wpxloc.raw
935 12Mar12=======================================================================
936 1. Check database operations on MySQL/SQlite3.
937 2. Add ipaddr field to spot table if not present.
938 3. Add ipaddr field from PC61 to database stored spots.
939 09Mar12=======================================================================
940 1. Try to trap unblessed references on receipt of PC34s
941 15Feb12=======================================================================
942 1. Add CTY2202 changes
943 25Jan12=======================================================================
944 1. Add CTY2201 changes
945 21Dec11=======================================================================
946 1. Add CTY2118 changes
947 20Dec11=======================================================================
948 1. fix strange startup repeating lockfile issue where (somehow) there is an
949 empty (but existing) lockfile, from GB7YDX.
950 29Nov11=======================================================================
951 1. fix shutdown() in Msg.pm
952 2. Add CTY2117 changes
953 05Nov11=======================================================================
954 1. Add CTY2116 changes
955 04Nov11=======================================================================
956 1. Add CTY2115 changes
957 20Oct11=======================================================================
958 1. Add CTY2113 Changes
959 02Oct11=======================================================================
960 1. change 40m bandplan after some input from Martin, ik2rmz
961 2. Add CTY2112 changes
962 25Jul11=======================================================================
963 1. add CTY2109 changes + wpxloc.raw for ST0
964 2. add CTY2110 changes
965 24May11=======================================================================
966 1. Add CTY-2108 prefixes
967 04Apr11=======================================================================
968 1. After being poked by Brendan EI6IZ, add outgoing IPV6 connect() handling
969 29Mar11=======================================================================
970 1. Add CTY-2106 prefixes
971 16Mar11=======================================================================
972 1. Add CTY-2105 prefixes
973 10Mar11=======================================================================
974 1. Add CTY-2104 prefixes
975 01Mar11=======================================================================
976 1. Add CTY-2103 prefixes
977 31Oct10=======================================================================
978 1. Increase PC92 A/D "slug" time to 5 minutes.
979 29Oct10=======================================================================
980 1. Allow Jim AD1C to track the changes to the cluster in realtime using the
981 debug system (set/debug cluster).
982 27Oct10=======================================================================
983 1. fix chat problem introduced in the last update
984 25Oct10=======================================================================
985 1. Drop PC12s purporting to originate at nodes that do PC9x (suggestion from
987 2. Increase default dup age for announces from 5 -> 18 hours.
988 3. add CTY 2009 cty.dat data.
989 4. Stop downgrading and sending CHAT messages on PC12 groups as it appears
990 that this is yet another "standard" that isn't universally understood.
991 23Oct10=======================================================================
992 1. add dbexport command to allow the export of ak1a style databases to a
994 2. add dxqsl_import and dxqsl_export commands to allow the import and export
995 of sh/dxsql qsl manager data extracted from spots as they pass through.
996 04Oct10=======================================================================
997 1. add CTY-2007 prefix list
998 04Oct10=======================================================================
999 1. incorporated the major prefix release CTY-2006 from Jim AD1C
1000 17Jun10=======================================================================
1001 1. Add ip address to dxspots and default to PC61 output to dxspider nodes.
1002 2. Allow 4 letter callsign portions again.
1003 16Jun10=======================================================================
1004 1. Increase default ephemeral dupe time for PC41 and such like lines.
1005 2. Include CTY-2004 updates.
1006 08Apr10=======================================================================
1007 1. Modify console.pl so that it works in a Windows Cmd window. Get a Windows
1008 Curses ppd from: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Curses.
1009 18Mar10=======================================================================
1010 1. Make privilege 0 "stick" if set on nodes
1011 13Mar10=======================================================================
1012 1. try to fix AGW crashes caused by peerhost looking at the wrong thing.
1013 2. Add more ax25 fixes for peerhost
1014 03Mar10=======================================================================
1015 1. add IP addresses to connecting PC92 A addresses and log them
1016 2. add CTY-2002 prefixes
1017 27Nov09=======================================================================
1018 1. Add 500khz band as suggested by Béla, HA5DI.
1019 2. Add CTY-1923 prefixes
1020 26Nov09=======================================================================
1021 1. add ip address to PC92 A records
1022 25Nov09=======================================================================
1023 1. Change sh/qrz to use the xml interface. You will have to subscribe to
1024 the xml interface - see http://www.qrz.com/XML/index.html for more info.
1025 2. Remove (bodged) forced encoding to iso-8859 on incoming text. More
1026 subtle handling will be required.
1027 3. Add CTY-1922 prefixes
1028 14Nov09=======================================================================
1029 1. Add CTY-1921 prefixes
1030 2. allow -SSID values on set/badnode
1031 27Aug09=======================================================================
1032 1. Add CTY-1913 prefixes
1033 2. Limit Route::config to 10 levels (as default)
1034 08Jul09=======================================================================
1035 1. Add CTY-1912 prefixes
1036 26Jun09=======================================================================
1037 1. Add CTY-1911 prefixes
1038 14Jun09=======================================================================
1039 1. Add CTY-1910 prefixes
1040 04Jun09=======================================================================
1041 1. removed warnings from debug.c from the C Client.
1042 2. Add CTY-1909 prefixes
1043 02Jun09=======================================================================
1044 1. Add CTY-1908 prefixes
1045 29May09=======================================================================
1046 1. Add CTY-1907 prefixes
1047 19May09=======================================================================
1048 1. Add CTY-1905 prefixes
1049 15May09=======================================================================
1050 1. Add CTY-1904 prefixes
1051 2. Accommodate "official" git command syntax in issue.pl
1052 29Dec08=======================================================================
1053 1. Add show/motd command as requested by Ian G0VGS.
1054 2. add CTY-1817 prefixes
1055 17Nov08=======================================================================
1056 1. Fix sh/425 to work with new server
1057 2. add CTY-1814 prefixes
1058 21Oct08=======================================================================
1059 1. Add CTY-1811 prefixes
1060 04Oct08=======================================================================
1061 1. set $main::maxconnect_node = 0 as default. It's causing too much aggro..
1062 02Oct08=======================================================================
1063 1. Add set/maxconnect command to allow the defaults to be overridden for
1064 individual users/nodes.
1065 2. Make sure that the check really is for incoming connections only...
1066 01Oct08=======================================================================
1067 1. added CTY-1809 prefix data
1068 2. added new config variables to allow an incoming users to have (as default)
1069 up to 2 other connections to other nodes and incoming nodes up to 8 other
1070 parents. Note that you can switch off this behaviour by setting
1071 $main::maxconnect_user or $main::maxconnect_node = 0 (or set them to whatever
1073 28Jun08=======================================================================
1074 1. Made buddies work again on PC92.
1075 26Jun08=======================================================================
1076 1. added show/ik3qar command by Leo IZ5FSA. See comments in perl/Internet.pm
1077 for setup instructions (note that you will have to copy these lines to
1078 local/Internet.pm before it will work).
1079 2. Send talks to every node a user is logged onto.
1080 24Jun08=======================================================================
1081 1. Change the route finding algorithm completely. No more recursion. No more
1082 tree searching. It now gives you answers even on a partial cluster map. Oh
1083 and the answers are correct, instead on completely random.
1084 2. Put back (maybe some of) US State handling.
1085 3. Add CTY-1806 prefix data
1086 28May08=======================================================================
1087 1. remove "recursion limit" message from Route.pm
1088 28May08=======================================================================
1089 1. Improve the detection of short exact callsigns that are out of prefix area
1090 (eg K7A) (thank you FCC).
1091 2. Improve long line handling on console.pl
1092 3. Add CTY-1805 cty.dat
1093 26May08=======================================================================
1094 1. Put a hard limit on the depth of searching for routes
1095 2. Add CTY-1804 prefix changes
1096 13May08=======================================================================
1097 1. add disc users|nodes|all so that each of these classes can be disconnected
1098 in one command. From a request by Luigi IK5ZUK.
1099 12May08=======================================================================
1100 1. add 'exact' keyword on sh/dx to allow for an exact match to a callsign.
1101 From a request by Robert HB9DZA.
1102 10May08=======================================================================
1103 1. add some privileges to (un)set/bad* and show/bad* commands. Thanks to
1104 Mauro IV3SCP for pointing this out to me.
1105 06May08=======================================================================
1106 1. Finally made the incompatible change of changing DXUser->get* to
1107 DXUser::get*. This will break any third party addons or commands use these
1109 2. Change version to 1.55
1110 3. Drop the lower limit of 60m to 5100 after Dave G7RAU pointed out usage.
1111 (see http://www.bandplans.com/index.php?band=60)
1112 22Apr08=======================================================================
1113 1. Added two Xmas Is calls.
1114 15Apr08=======================================================================
1115 1. added CTY-1803 changes
1116 25Mar08=======================================================================
1117 1. Include some cty.day changes
1118 19Mar08=======================================================================
1119 1. Include CTY-1802 cty.dat changes from Jim AD1C
1120 29Feb08=======================================================================
1121 1. Fix crash on rcmd of an invalid command.
1122 25Feb08=======================================================================
1123 1. Arrange for AGWMsg to retry connection either if the AGW engine isn't
1124 loaded on startup or it disappears for some reason and restarts.
1125 19Feb08=======================================================================
1126 1. Added CTY-1801 cty.dat data.
1127 2. Fix problem with entering non-ascii data and then executing commands that
1128 are guessed from the "cleaned up" version of the string. Now if you enter
1129 commands with invalid characters, it will error immediately.
1130 3. fix a problem detecting IPV4 localhost on IPV6 enabled systems.
1131 10Feb08=======================================================================
1132 1. sort sh/node output. Also show more information.
1133 05Feb08=======================================================================
1134 1. Added a Windows only BPQ interface from the man himself: John G8BPQ.
1135 See some instructions in /spider/txt/spiderBPQ_en.txt for how to use it.
1136 07Jan08=======================================================================
1137 1. more changes to cty.dat
1138 07Jan08=======================================================================
1139 1. added TO5FJ to cty.dat (under orders from Jim AD1C :-)
1140 05Jan08=======================================================================
1141 1. Made necessary change to get DXSpider to (seem to) work in perl 5.10
1142 27Dec07=======================================================================
1143 1, added CTY-1711 prefix changes (and new wpxloc.raw) from Jim AD1C.
1144 25Nov07=======================================================================
1145 1. Fix a crash on receiving an rcmd from an new node.
1146 21Nov07=======================================================================
1147 1. Added CTY-1710 prefix changes
1148 19Nov07=======================================================================
1149 1. change MRTG graphs to be based on GMT, not localtime. This allows one to
1150 more easily compare debug data with traffic graphs.
1151 2. Add a create/user command to just add a plain user.
1152 17Nov07=======================================================================
1153 1. Add Local::ann() as requested by Felipe PY1NB.
1154 16Nov07=======================================================================
1155 1. add CTY-1709 prefix changes
1156 2. added extra checking for the time stamp on PC9x sentences. These must now
1157 be within 15 minutes (configurable) of this node's time to be accepted.
1158 3. made show/newc terminal width aware.
1159 24Oct07=======================================================================
1160 1. Added CTY-1708 prefix changes
1161 23Oct07=======================================================================
1162 1. Added CTY-1707 prefix changes
1163 15Oct07=======================================================================
1164 1. prevent PC61 from propagating outside spider boxes.
1165 2. simplify the regex for sh/contest to allow it to work on perl < 5.8.x.
1166 09Oct07=======================================================================
1167 1. Added *VERY* important change to prevent loops on PC9x sentences.
1168 06Oct07=======================================================================
1169 1. added the possibility of having a motd_ax25 especially for sending to
1170 radio connections after a suggestion by Paolo YV1DIG.
1171 05Oct07=======================================================================
1172 1. Handle PC61 from VE1CC clusters as PC11.
1173 01Oct07=======================================================================
1174 1. fix .gtkconsole_data creation bug.
1175 27Sep07=======================================================================
1176 1. Fixed gtkconsole to split out all the windows. See
1177 /spider/gtkconsole/README for installation and usage instructions. This
1178 program will work on both Windows and Linux provided the extra Gtk2 perl
1179 libraries + dependencies are installed. Instructions for getting them are in
1181 25Sep07=======================================================================
1182 1. Fix mrtg command so that it does not require /var/lock (which anyway gets
1183 removed and recreated on boot - and the debianised mrtg does not recognise
1184 that) nor /var/lib/mrtg for the confcache (whatever that is).
1185 24Sep07=======================================================================
1186 1. fix error message on disconnect and, BTW, fix the cause of premature
1187 disconnections in the new PC92 code.
1188 22Sep07=======================================================================
1189 1. fix mrtg script so that it sets LANG='C', in addition, it appears that you
1190 will need to create a /var/lock/mrtg and /var/lib/mrtg directory, both with
1191 chmod 01777 /var/lock/mrtg /var/lib/mrtg. They may already exist but without
1192 the correct permissions.
1193 15Sep07=======================================================================
1194 1. Add *optional* INET6 connectivity. In order to use this you must load
1195 IO::Socket::INET6 and its dependencies from CPAN or get the distro's packaged
1196 versions. I used 'sudo aptitude install libio-socket-inet6-perl' for ubuntu
1197 (which should work for debian as well), for fedora/rpm based systems
1198 'sudo yum install perl-IO-Socket-INET6' or near equiv should work. This has
1199 been done quite simplistically, but it seems to work.
1200 10Sep07=======================================================================
1201 1. Remove warnings for EINPROGRESS etc for Windows perl 5.8.
1202 2. Try to see if using just one lastid is viable in all situations. If it is
1203 then this will cure the talk problem.
1204 20Aug07=======================================================================
1205 1. add cty.dat + wpxloc.raw changes for CTY-1706.
1206 31Jul07=======================================================================
1207 1. extend 60m band slighty and add ssb section.
1208 2. add a new cty.dat (CTY-1705) from Jim AD1C.
1209 27Jul07=======================================================================
1210 1. Added Angel's changes to Messages for Spanish (finally).
1211 25Jul07=======================================================================
1212 1. don't clear out routing tables on shutdown. This should speed that up.
1213 24Jul07=======================================================================
1214 1. Try to target PC93 (the combined talk/ann/chat sentence) better. Prevent
1215 PC12 chat going to non-dxspider and non-ak1a nodes. None of the others seem to
1216 handle it correctly (Lee VE7CC: do you?).
1217 2. a few other tidyups,
1218 see: http://www.dxcluster.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=spider.git
1220 18Jul07=======================================================================
1221 1. Change the meaning of set/isolate. Set/isolate now works in both directions
1222 in that an isolated node will only have its local config remembered and will
1223 only be sent this nodes local config. This is exactly equivalent to both
1224 ends setting set/isolate. If that is already the case then there should be
1225 no noticeable change. Any extra that the far node sends, over and above its
1226 local config will now be ignored.
1227 17Jul07=======================================================================
1228 1. remove dupefile on startup and on ending the node. Add clear/dupefile
1229 command to allow people to do it at runtime as well.
1230 12Jul07=======================================================================
1231 1. Change disconnection code so that nodes that are no longer routable are
1233 2. Add help for sh/band and also allow query of individual band or regions.
1234 11Jul07=======================================================================
1235 1. improve speed of sh/c/n
1236 2. remove all $Id$ strings from cmd tree
1237 09Jul07=======================================================================
1238 1. remove check for PC93 from legacy nodes. This will allow PC10s to be
1239 propagated correctly. Probably.
1240 08Jul07=======================================================================
1241 1. put in a temporary fix to the crashing on incoming PC10 talks, whilst I
1242 try to work out how it is happening.
1243 06Jul07=======================================================================
1244 1. re-arrange id checking so that it is more logical and check that config
1245 records, that can be an hour coming, are not thoughtlessly ignored, thus
1246 causing nodes to time out.
1247 2. Make sure that the 'over midnight' distance calculation actually does what
1249 3. Tart up version number reporting in sh/node.
1250 4. Pass the correct number of parameters in pc93 -> pc12 conversions which
1251 should stop returning PC12s coming out as SYSOP announces.
1252 05Jul07=======================================================================
1253 1. Try to make sure that the node config broadcasts are actually sent...
1254 03Jul07=======================================================================
1255 1. fix unwanted dupe notifications if a PC12 comes back in on a loop.
1256 02Jul07=======================================================================
1257 1. Add a new command to show the contents of the cmd_cache. This allows those
1258 people whom develop their own commands to see which version they are using.
1259 It is called show/cmd_cache (or sh/cmd for short).
1260 2. Add some extra info to the links command. Show whether a link is isolated
1261 and also whether it has filters (if applicable) and whether these are
1262 personalised ('Y') or the default node_filter ('D').
1263 29Jun07=======================================================================
1264 1. If a node is set/isolated then make sure that a) pc9x is not advertised
1265 and b) pc9x is ignored.
1266 2. Add (un)set/wantpc9x command (but please don't use them without talking
1267 to me first), here be dragons!!
1268 25Jun07=======================================================================
1269 1. make sure that a C record is sent for node call every update period.
1270 2. make announces work again (probably).
1271 3. Fix long standing possibility of a crash with a new user.
1272 4. Add continuous chatting (like talk with no message eg 'chat #9000' just on
1273 its own with no message).
1274 24Jun07=======================================================================
1275 1. Fix the routing algorithms to allow route selection in the face of
1276 incomplete trees of nodes (trees as produced by sh/newc).
1277 2. Fix the obscount issues which mean that many nodes get timed out after 3hrs.
1278 3. Extend 4m to 70631 to cover CT.
1279 23Jun07=======================================================================
1280 1. fix basic deduping algorithm
1281 2. rearrange node startup protocol to avoid issuing unnecessary PC92 and also
1282 to spread the PC92Cs out for dependent nodes.
1283 3. increase the PC92C update time to 1 hour.
1284 4. fix sh/route, with a view toward replacing Route::alldxchan.
1285 5. downgrade a link advertising pc9x if no PC92C forthcoming from it back to
1286 old style protocol and carry on, rather than disconnecting (protocol facist
1288 6. Fix isolated pc9x nodes so that they remain in oldstyle protocol.
1289 22Jun07=======================================================================
1290 1. Fix Alias for sh/mydx (so it isn't the same as sh/myfdx).
1291 2. Fix sh/c/n uninitialised variable message
1292 3. Fix (and improve) sh/newc gb7 problem
1293 4. Fix broken set/sys_qra command
1294 21Jun07=======================================================================
1295 1. merge back SIMPLEROUTE branch to issue as official 1.54.
1296 18Jun07=======================================================================
1297 1. add a optional dependency on Encode (included in 5.8.x) to encode strings
1298 to latin1 for deduping purposes, hopefully getting rid of some dupes.
1299 2. add a default INPUT filter for a node (by_dxcc <node's country>) if no
1300 specific or default INPUT node exists.
1301 14Jun07=======================================================================
1302 1. prepare for git repository and moving of anon cvs repository to
1304 13Jun07=======================================================================
1306 2. change all the version / build numbering.
1307 11Jun07=======================================================================
1308 1. Change the frequency normalisation for DX Spot dupe checks so that any
1309 decimal part is thrown away (in other words: truncate the freq to integer khz)
1310 20May07=======================================================================
1312 08Apr07=======================================================================
1313 1. add CTY-1703 cty.dat
1314 2. alter the way the dupefile deletion is done.
1315 18Mar07=======================================================================
1316 1. change URL in show/425.
1317 04Mar07=======================================================================
1318 1. add CTY 1702 prefix data files
1319 22Feb07=======================================================================
1320 1. add show/myfdx to Aliases.
1321 15Feb07=======================================================================
1322 1. allow convkeps.pl to parse NORAD keps files.
1323 22Jan07=======================================================================
1324 1. disable default propagation of PC9x sentences
1325 2. simplify PC17 handling
1326 16Jan07=======================================================================
1327 1. back ported a change to PC16 handling so that a locally connected node's
1328 info clears out and generally overrides any residual PC16 info gathered from
1330 15Jan07=======================================================================
1332 07Jan07=======================================================================
1333 1. use IO::Socket blocking where available and switch off or ignore all
1335 05Jan07=======================================================================
1336 1. increase default ephemeral deduping on PC15 to 6 minutes (from 2).
1337 23Nov06=======================================================================
1338 1. added wrapping to over length lines in console.pl.
1339 03Nov06=======================================================================
1340 1. add CTY-1609 changes
1341 2. add back Geo::Taf code with submitted mods
1342 3. add new version of the sh/425 code using the new database location.
1343 09Oct06=======================================================================
1344 1. fix problems with bad filters pointed by Thomas DL3SBB.
1345 27Jul06=======================================================================
1346 1. merge in official issue version of wpxloc.raw (with one change: 4U1V).
1347 26Jul06=======================================================================
1348 1. incorporated Jim AD1C's spiffy new, unified, wpxloc.raw and version
1350 21Jul06=======================================================================
1351 1. Added the (now) all new gtkconsole program, with all the changes needed in
1352 dxspider to run it (yet another cmd interface (sigh)). You will need gtk2-perl
1353 installed (most modern linux distros do this automatically). The big news is
1354 that this will work on Windows boxes as well if you install the Gtk libraries
1355 as per: http://gtk2-perl.sf.net.
1356 03Jun06=======================================================================
1357 1. Added changes to wpxloc.raw (prefixes) suggested by Jim AD1C.
1358 2. Made a change to prevent xml data being interpreted unless we are
1360 3. Change the buddy messages after a suggestion from Angel EA7WA.
1361 02Apr06=======================================================================
1362 1. incorporated cty-1604 data.
1363 29Mar06=======================================================================
1364 1. fix sh/muf that I broke in the previous change
1365 26Mar06=======================================================================
1366 1. Arrange for any online buddies to be displayed when a user logs on.
1367 2. Try to reduce the amount of POSIX stuff that is loaded to just that which
1369 23Mar06=======================================================================
1370 1. Added cty-1603 data.
1371 2. On the advice of Jim AD1C I have changed around some things in wpxloc.raw
1372 that affect 8J,CT2,KC4,KG4,KG6,ZK1 and ZS2. These should now show the more
1373 likely canonical prefix.
1374 3. On the advice of Tom WB8ZRL, I have made BW an alias for BV (Taiwan) and
1375 made some other changes to affect the selection between the mainland and the
1376 island more reliable.
1377 10Mar06=======================================================================
1379 2. Add new Spanish translations by Angel EA7WA.
1380 07Mar06=======================================================================
1381 1. Add the node call to remote tell_login and tell_buddie calls.
1382 06Mar06=======================================================================
1383 1. Fix warning on empty PC19s.
1384 2. Add new command set/local_node to allow people to see logins/outs on other
1386 3. Add new command set/buddy to allow people to see when their favorite
1388 4. Arrange filter reading so that the following order is followed for users:
1389 callsign, callsign less ssid, user_default. Nodes are unchanged.
1390 14Feb06=======================================================================
1391 1. Turn R and SFI around in mrtg.pl.
1392 13Feb06=======================================================================
1393 1. Updated prefixes with cty-1601 data.
1394 2. Fixed qth in show/muf so that it shows the correct qth (if known).
1395 3. Try to make the state machine in convkeps.pl deal with more variations
1396 of the 2 line keps sets that are available on line. Also give a sensible
1397 error message if no keps were actually decoded.
1398 4. Update the base keps to the latest set of AMSAT keps 06033.
1399 04Feb06=======================================================================
1400 1. Explicitly ignore spots with lower case characters in the spotted call
1401 01Feb06=======================================================================
1402 1. Explicitly ignore spots with blank spotted callsigns
1403 26Jan06=======================================================================
1404 1. Fix divide by 0 error in DXBearing (how come this has taken so long to
1406 22Jan06=======================================================================
1407 1. Remove +<prefix> from the fronts of comments to fix LoTW dupes.
1408 18Jan06=======================================================================
1409 1. Fix spurious announce from previous year appearing in sh/ann.
1410 15Jan06=======================================================================
1411 1. Fix some obviously long standing problems with create_sysop.pl and also
1412 with initialising the User file.
1413 2. Fixed the problem with certain things not being shown in sh/log (because of
1414 a regex that rejected too many things).
1415 3. Speeded up sh/log quite a bit at the same time.
1416 4. Add a default limit of the last 36 months for sh/log querys.
1417 14Jan06=======================================================================
1418 1. undo frequency rounding change, it causes more problems than it solves.
1419 11Jan06=======================================================================
1420 1. Fixed problem with badspotters doing ann/full as pointed out by Luigi
1422 07Jan06=======================================================================
1423 1. Fixed problem with the standalone 'showdx' program pointed out by Leo,
1425 2. Fixed rounding problem on entering spots as pointed out by Ron N5IN.
1426 3. Fixed problem with badspotters sending DX as pointed out by Luigi IK5ZUK.
1427 4. Added some extra logging for swearing so that we can see what lines used
1428 which swear words. Hopefully this will allow sysops to refine their swearing
1429 filters more easily.
1430 06Jan06=======================================================================
1431 1. Fix problem with rcmd <call> sh/fdx
1432 27Dec05=======================================================================
1433 1. put some more flesh on the SQL stuff (which may turn out to be a bit of a
1434 red herring as it doesn't appear to be significantly faster (for spots) than
1436 21Dec05=======================================================================
1437 1. Add start of optional SQL working.
1438 2. Fix BadWords so that the simple word check splits words on word boundaries.
1439 13Dec05=======================================================================
1440 1. upissue version no to 1.52
1441 07Nov05=======================================================================
1442 1. Fix warnings on filtering spots where the filter was looking at US states
1443 and there is no US state in the spot.
1444 2. Fix the dupes caused by having a prefix in the last characters of the
1446 01Nov05=======================================================================
1447 1. add log2csv.pl for printing out logfiles
1448 25Oct05=======================================================================
1449 1. Incorporated the cty.dat from Jim dated today (25Oct05).
1450 08Oct05=======================================================================
1451 1. Reject PC11s with blank spot callsigns
1452 01Sep05=======================================================================
1453 1. Change the logic of propagating WWV broadcasts. Now all non-input filtered
1454 PC23s will be sent on. Previously only the first successful new WWV was
1456 2. fix the problem with by_dxcc and origin_dxcc not working on WWV.
1457 29Aug05=======================================================================
1458 1. try something else to resolve/prevent more of these spot dupes. It appears
1459 that there is software out there chopping off variable amounts from the ends
1460 of comment fields. This makes the task of detecting dupes that much harder.
1461 10Aug05=======================================================================
1462 1. trim dx spot duplicate length after normalisation
1463 2. Do the same for announces
1464 08Jul05=======================================================================
1465 1. new CTY.DAT encorporated
1466 27May05=======================================================================
1467 1. change copyright in dbg message at startup.
1468 25May05=======================================================================
1469 1. Added a means to import a script of arbitrary commands to allow external
1470 programs to do stuff.
1471 23Mar05=======================================================================
1472 1. fix (un)set/badspotter so that it only stores non-ssid calls.
1473 2. mention action on talk and ann/full in help.
1474 22Mar05=======================================================================
1475 1. Fix ? so it works again.
1476 2. Fix Aliases for sh/c so they are correct
1477 3. Fix sh/connect for AGW ports and other niffnaffs.
1478 22Mar05=======================================================================
1479 1. fixed sh/c/node sh/c/a and sh/newc/n.
1480 21Mar05=======================================================================
1481 1. log AGW port on connection
1482 2. merge in latest (2Mar2005) cty.dat
1483 3. fix command searching so it does not pick up false positives for commands
1484 with / in them in directories that don't have that.
1485 4. Important security change.
1486 5. add missing input filter for WWV
1487 16Mar05=======================================================================
1488 1. make the correct correction to the DL entry in wpxloc.raw (left out the
1489 'N' of 'North' in the latitude).
1490 2. Severely reduce the dupes caused by some of the badly configured / written
1491 spot suckers out there.
1492 13Mar05=======================================================================
1493 1. There has been a mix up in the Aranea1 branch. I have managed to merge a
1494 change that I have been meaning to do for ages. I have now made that change
1496 27Feb05=======================================================================
1497 1. fix duping on bad spot suckers that copy the prefix that is put at the end
1498 of the comment section by AR-C nodes becoming the whole comment.
1499 26Feb05=======================================================================
1500 1. Added show/grayline command from Steve K9AN. This is also aliased to
1502 2. fix spot dupe ambiguity on spotter having an SSID (remove it).
1503 25Feb05=======================================================================
1504 1. Changed the way spot deduping is done. This is likely to make deduping much
1505 stricter. In essence a person cannot spot the same call on the same frequency
1506 more than once an hour (configurable) unless he makes a (non-duped) comment
1508 2. Added Swains Island
1509 3. Added TO4G for Glorioso
1510 19Feb05=======================================================================
1511 1. changed ssb allocation on 40m to add missing 5Khz.
1512 2. Change sh/425 to Leo, IZ5FSA's requirements.
1513 08Feb05=======================================================================
1514 1. possibly fixed the multiple condition problems on sh/dx
1516 05Feb05=======================================================================
1517 1. Fix a long standing (ie since the first bulletin was sent) bug with old
1518 mail not being deleted until a restart was done.
1519 2. As well as a duplicate check on existing bulletins, I have added a check
1520 the message is not (already) too old.
1521 3. fix problem for perl < 5.6 in Thingy.pm
1522 03Feb05=======================================================================
1523 1. Added latest Spanish translations courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1524 2. Force all languages to use pr in en in Messages, as the prompt is
1526 19Jan05=======================================================================
1527 1. More Spanish changes by Angel, EA7WA.
1528 2. add language dependant motd files. You can now have motd_{lang} and
1529 motd_nor_{lang} (eg for Spanish: motd_es and motd_nor_es) for normal and
1530 non-registered (if you use registration) users respectively. Based on an idea
1532 18Jan05=======================================================================
1533 1. Added missing Spanish translation courtesy of Angel EA7WA.
1534 2. Really incorporate latest cty.dat (11Dec04) as opposed to merely thinking
1535 I had (and still add 3X0Y as well).
1536 3. fix ? all in non english language
1537 4. Alias sh/st and sh/sta back to show/station from show/startup.
1538 17Jan05=======================================================================
1539 1. Added 3Y0X to Peter Island 3Y in cty.dat.
1540 16Jan05=======================================================================
1541 1. Added the changes to Canadian Prefixes so that usdbraw.gz from Charlie
1542 K1XX's website (http://dxc.k1xx.com/download) dated after 1Jan05 will include
1543 Canadian city and province data as well the existing US data.
1544 2. Improve the apropos command to take better account of language and do
1545 a better job of only showing english stuff for commands where there really is
1546 no local language version.
1547 15Jan05=======================================================================
1548 1. knocked over a few possible ways of people annoying other people thru
1550 2. Fixed problem in DXCommandmode with an indirect call that did not work
1552 3. Add Spanish translations of new scripting commands in help, from Angel
1554 13Jan05=======================================================================
1555 1. Fixed prompting in languages other than English.
1556 2. Fixed language problem with spoof, but that simply hides a whole can of
1557 worms that I shall have to address later.
1558 3. Added make clean to src Makefile (!!!)
1559 12Jan05=======================================================================
1560 1. Add $main::bumpexisting variable which allows a new connection for a user
1561 call to disconnect an existing connection with the same call. The default for
1562 this variable is 'true' (1). This means that existing behaviour has changed.
1563 set/var $main::bumpexisting = 0 to return to original behaviour.
1564 2. Remind a user every hour (as default) that they have new messages.
1565 set/var $DXCommandmode::msgpolltime = 3*3600 to set it to 3 hours.
1566 3. Allow some substitutions in set/prompt (call, date, time and
1567 cluster call) and add dxspider just before the > as standard.
1568 4. Add $main::allowdxby variable so that sysops can switch off the
1569 'DX BY <othercall' command. It is set to 0 (ie disabled) by default. This
1570 is for sysops who don't want to bump privilege to allow it. That still works
1572 5. Fix the bug in 'dx by <call>' that causes only the first word of the
1573 comment to be recorded.
1574 6. Fix bug counting backwards over a leap year in Julian.pm which meant that
1575 sh/dxstats doesn't start at 'yesterday' anymore.
1576 7. Added set/startup and show/startup commands to allow users and sysops
1577 to create and display startup scripts. There is also an unset/startup to
1579 27Dec04=======================================================================
1580 1. add improved VE data from Charlie K1XX. You should update usdb as well.
1581 22Dec04=======================================================================
1582 1. Changed all the names of US prefixes to be prepended with their State code.
1583 thus "Alaska-KL7" becomes "AK-Alaska-KL7".
1584 21Dec04=======================================================================
1585 1. added AGW port no after an example by IW5DEZ.
1586 2. modified links command to suggestions by Charlie K1XX.
1587 3. added show/groups command to show recently used chat groups by Tommy
1589 4. fixed T8 / V6 ambiguity (at least basically).
1590 20Dec04=======================================================================
1591 1. updated create_prefix.pl to only use (supplied) wpxloc.raw and cty.dat
1592 2. Added IG9, GM/S, 4U1V and some other detail changes to make it compatible
1594 3. regenerated prefix_data.pl with updated wpxloc.raw and cty.dat 11Dec04.
1595 17Dec04=======================================================================
1596 1. add undocumented special command for VE7CC.
1597 10Dec04=======================================================================
1598 1. Included fixes sent in by David, N9KT for the new DB0SDX site.
1599 2. removed redundant "rm *bys" and "rm *cys" from Spot::init().
1600 09Dec04=======================================================================
1601 1. fix show/mydx properly this time (and test the fix!)
1602 2. fix the default in show/qrz
1603 06Dec04=======================================================================
1604 1. fix show/mydx if there is no defined spotfilter
1605 07Oct04=======================================================================
1606 1. added the ability for people to import chat from external programs.
1607 create a directory called /spider/chat_import, make sure it is writable
1608 by any applications that might dump stuff in there (chmod 1777
1609 /spider/chat_import on *nux). Put a file with a sensible name in there;
1610 the first part of the name will be the chat group to whom the message will
1611 be sent. So solar.txt.12325 = SOLAR. Announces can also be sent to local, all
1612 and sysop (ie files whose name begins with those names). Each line in the
1613 file becomes a chat line or an announce. See importwwv.pl for an example.
1614 DO NOT USE importwwv.pl, I am already using it and if you do as well, people
1615 will get duplicates which will ANNOY THEM!!! It is just an example.
1616 23Aug04=======================================================================
1617 1. add the start of an alternative routing engine (RouteDB)
1618 20Aug04=======================================================================
1619 1. Added new protocol specification to techdoc
1620 17Aug04=======================================================================
1621 1. change 'fo' alias in Aliases
1622 31Jul04=======================================================================
1623 1. add a load of .cvsignore lines to reduce the updating noise
1624 30Jul04=======================================================================
1625 1. make sure that // is not converted to / in command lines.
1626 28Jul04=======================================================================
1627 1. backported 'Investigate' from NP branch so that only pingable nodes
1629 2. added missing entries in Internet.pm for sh/contest
1630 26Jul04=======================================================================
1631 1. added extra variables to Internet.pm to allow the various internet query
1632 commands to alter the url that they use.
1633 2. Added show/425 command from Leo, IZ5FSA.
1634 05Jul04=======================================================================
1635 1. fix rspfcheck on pc27
1636 23Jun04=======================================================================
1637 1. Add zone, by_zone, itu, by_itu, state and by_state searches to sh/dx
1638 2. Update manuals for CVS and new commands
1639 22Jun04=======================================================================
1640 1. Add the show/mydx command which *may* filter your spots using your
1642 17Jun04=======================================================================
1643 1. alter processing of PC17 to see if they get distributed more than now.
1644 14Jun04=======================================================================
1645 1. fix previous fix of sh/dx
1646 09Jan04=======================================================================
1647 1. removed PC90 which was breaking various filtering things.
1648 2. added realtime spot formats to sh/dx (at least in basic form), this is
1649 activated by using either of the keywords 'real' of 'rt' on the command
1650 line. Also added sh/fdx as an alias.
1651 01Jan04=======================================================================
1652 1. move position of USDB init to get rid of an obscure bug pointed out by
1654 2. Remove redundant documentation.
1655 31Dec03=======================================================================
1656 1. alter remote database handling to 'new standard'.
1657 30Dec03=======================================================================
1658 1. updated website to make it clear(er) that it all works under Windows (like
1659 wot Charlie said...).
1660 2. made the changes to the German Messages that Thomas DL3SBB sent me a
1662 3. made 'dx by' require at least privilege 1.
1663 29Dec03=======================================================================
1664 1. updated dxoldtonew.pl so that it takes an AK1A DX.DAT file (argument on
1665 command line or a default of /spider/data/DX.DAT and outputs the standard
1666 DXSpider format spot files. Please be warned that if any of these files
1667 already exist, the data will be appended onto the end of the file. Please
1668 make sure you have backups or at least be aware that this may give strange
1669 results which may be 'out of order'.
1670 24May03=======================================================================
1671 1. Added more french translations from Robert (HB9BZA) and we now have some
1672 french help as well (also from Robert). A splendid effort. Thank you.
1673 16May03=======================================================================
1674 1. Correct Windows section of the Addendum file! (g0vgs)
1675 06May03=======================================================================
1676 1. Add Portuguese language courtesy of David CT1DRB (set/lang pt)
1677 2. Add French language courtesy of Robert HB9BZA (set/lang fr)
1678 02Apr03=======================================================================
1679 1. Fix some minor problems with the manuals (g0vgs)
1680 01Apr03=======================================================================
1681 1. Update filtering primer, changes by N3RD (g0vgs)
1682 28Mar03=======================================================================
1683 1. Added an excellent document on filtering to the manuals from Jim, W3BG
1684 2. started to remove old documents (g0vgs)
1685 27Mar03=======================================================================
1686 1. play around with sh/reg, sh/iso, sh/node and sh/lock to make them work
1687 slightly better with the new user format.
1688 2. update manuals (g0vgs)
1689 26Mar03=======================================================================
1690 1. add some ak1a compatibility changes to chat
1691 2. added help text for chat, join, leave and sh/chat.
1692 18Mar03=======================================================================
1693 1. minor corrections to manuals (g0vgs)
1694 17Mar03=======================================================================
1695 1. changed the regex determining what is a callsign to be more comprehensive.
1696 I would suggest re-running create_qsl.pl and then restarting.
1697 2. Fix chat so that output appears to users again and PC sentence conforms
1698 to standard. Add kludge to remove rewritten chats if I see them.
1699 3. Only send chat PCs to spider or AK1A boxes
1700 12Mar03=======================================================================
1701 1. added HC and QRZ.com to possible QSL locations, if you want to pick up
1702 historical info (ie start again), run create_qsl.pl after update and restart
1703 the node (which you will need to do anyway).
1704 2. changed the dbcreate command so that you can say:
1705 dbcreate dxqsl cmd show/dxqsl
1706 which will allow local and remote users to execute commands as though they
1707 are Databases. You can also include these databases in chains. What you do
1708 with this, is ofcourse a moot question.
1709 3. Update manuals (g0vgs)
1710 11Mar03=======================================================================
1711 1. Changed the name of show/qsl to show/dxqsl.
1712 2. Alter Commands_en.hlp to match new name and issue manual updates (g0vgs)
1713 10Mar03=======================================================================
1714 1. added show/qsl command. This command basically takes the normal output of
1715 sh/dx qsl and stores it in a database. In order to enable this command you
1716 will require the Storable module to be loaded (you will already have done
1717 this with a bit of luck for the new DXUser interface). The suggested
1718 procedure is (after the update) to run /spider/perl/create_qsl.pl (this may
1719 take a long time), then immediately it finishes, restart the node. The node
1720 will then keep the database up to date automatically. If you are not
1721 interested in historical data then you can leave this step out.
1722 2. added show/contest command from Tommy SM3OSM via Rene OZ1LQH.
1723 08Mar03=======================================================================
1724 1. Added chat, join, leave commands to allow general purpose conferencing
1725 on arbitrary subjects. [Translators: added e34,e35,join,leave]. There is
1726 currently no help. There is also sh/chat.
1727 28Feb03=======================================================================
1728 1. Charlie K1XX fixed the sh/iso, sh/reg and sh/node commands
1729 25Feb03=======================================================================
1730 1. backported switch processing for PC sentences
1731 24Feb03=======================================================================
1732 1. add the 'run' command and the 'privilege' command to allow sysops to
1733 create scripts for people.
1734 2. fix show/user so that it doesn't moan about uninitialised variables
1735 23Feb03=======================================================================
1736 1. Added show/wm7d command (a US only callbook server) [by K1XX].
1737 2. Added a prototype show/db0sdx command (w.i.p).
1738 3. Added set/dxcq and set/dxitu zone commands [Translators: I have added
1739 dxcqu, dxcqs, dxitus and dxituu to Messages].
1740 4. Add new Commands to manuals (g0vgs)
1741 5. make sure that none of the above set/dx... commands are defaulted on
1742 22Feb03=======================================================================
1743 1. changed qrz.com address
1744 2. added Charlie's [K1XX] new wpxloc.raw data stuff to get WA1, KC3 type
1745 callsigns to work better.
1746 3. added in set/usstate command which prints any US state information
1747 available on both the spotted (LHS of time) and spotter (RHS of time).
1748 [Translators: I have added usstates and usstateu to Messages].
1749 4. Merged in the new (faster) DXUser.pm.
1751 [NOTE] this version will require Storable to be installed. On the
1752 other hand the code may work without, in a compatible way. This bit hasn't
1753 been very well tested (the 'no Storable' condition that is).
1755 [*** NOTE ***] make sure that you do an 'export_user' BEFORE restarting
1756 you node. (Yes I know this is like a shrinkwrap licence, but I can't
1759 It will take several minutes for the node to restart when it does the
1760 conversion from .v2 to .v3 user file. Please go and have a good strong cup
1761 of tea whilst this is happening.
1763 If it fails then you will need to edit your latest user_asc file on (or about)
1764 line 25 it says: $ref = decode($f[1]); you will need to change that to
1765 $ref = asc_decode($f[1]); and then do: perl user_asc
1767 DO MAKE SURE THAT you include subdirectories in your CVS update
1769 21Feb03=======================================================================
1770 1. moved the export of the users file to Wednesday night (GMT) to avoid
1771 possible crashes and/or delays during a contest weekend.
1772 14Feb03=======================================================================
1773 1. some major changes to the structure of the manual documentation. To bring
1774 the manuals into line, they now have the language tag (like
1775 installation_en.html). Hopefully someone will translate the manuals
1776 eventually :-) I have left the old files in CVS for now to allow
1777 everyone to change any symlinks etc to the new filenames. I will remove the
1778 old files shortly, please update your links! (g0vgs)
1779 2. docs makefile updated and commands2sgml.pl added from M0AZM. This script
1780 inserts the helpfiles automagically from Commands_en.hlp into the relevant
1782 3. Commands_en.hlp adjusted slightly to ensure at least one space before
1783 examples for the purposes of the above script. (g0vgs)
1784 4. Amend index.html to the right document names. (g0vgs)
1785 09Feb03=======================================================================
1786 1. Correct some typos in the manuals and update perl modules etc. Also
1787 amend some help files to show correct syntax, around the 'clear' commands
1788 swapping [input] and <callsign> in each case, translators please take note.
1789 Thanks to Dave N3RD for info. (g0vgs)
1790 2. update the addendum for latest build and include information on additional
1791 modules required. (g0vgs)
1792 20Jan03=======================================================================
1793 1. changed sh/c so that, by default, it only shows the caller's country nodes
1794 sh/c all will show the old style full list. "sh/c sk gb" will show the config
1795 of all the GB and SK nodes.
1796 2. changed sh/stat and sh/route for nodes
1797 19Jan03=======================================================================
1798 1. I have made a fundemental change to the way PC19s are dealt with as a
1799 result of the discussions on the mailing list. From now on, only nodes that
1800 issue PC16s will have PC19s propagated. If they *ever* issue a PC16 then from
1801 then on they are considered as being 'connected' and thus routable. No PC16
1802 and you have no route. This should stop all passive links being routed. For
1803 the few cases where you know that that is a very small node and it rarely has
1804 users, then you can do a set/routepc19 <node> to enable PC19 propagation. In
1805 the even more rare case of you wanting to prevent PC19s being routed thru
1806 your node, you can use unset/routepc19. THIS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ROUTE
1807 FILTERING!!!!! [translators: I have added wpc16s, wpc16u, wpc19s, wpc19u]
1809 BTW the first time you connect again you will notice a separate PC19 go out
1810 for each 'new' PC16 that the node sees. This is normal and will go away the
1811 second time the system needs to issue a PC19.
1812 2. Alter the export_user command to remove users that have no useful info
1813 and have not been seen for more than (default) 1 year.
1814 3. fix the problem of users on more than one node not being propagated
1815 4. remove spaces and all non-US ascii characters from PC41 for the dup check.
1816 5. put in check to see if the parent of a newly allowed PC19 is still there
1817 (this needs further investigation).
1818 17Jan03=======================================================================
1819 1. Fix problem with lines being left in the main input queue for a
1820 disconnected/ing node.
1821 14Jan03=======================================================================
1822 1. Tidy up AUTOLOAD functions
1823 2. Make sure that empty PC16s are not sent on startup to a node.
1824 12Jan03=======================================================================
1825 1. add Czech language courtesy of Milan OK1XH
1826 06Jan03=======================================================================
1827 1. add the latest changes to the spider-web java interface from Rene, OZ1LQH.
1828 Please note that there is a change to the spider.cgi file this time so that
1829 the client show 'Connected to Node_Call' instead of the hostname. You will
1830 need to update your cgi file when you update the changes. Please make sure
1831 that you back up your old files first! (g0vgs)
1832 2. yet more changes to the java client from Rene :-) Also added a makefile
1833 and a Changes file for the client in the spider-web directory.
1834 05Jan03=======================================================================
1835 1. fix some irritating messages caused by protocol loops in sh/c
1837 3. move GN from GJ to GI
1838 31Dec02=======================================================================
1839 1. Update files in the java client with fixes and additions from Rene, OZ1LQH
1840 05Dec02=======================================================================
1841 1. Fix SSID issues with AGWMsg.
1842 2. updated show/hftable, vhftable, hfstats, vhfstats and dxstats after K1XX
1843 sent in some sample code indicated new functionality he requires. Translators
1844 please note that the stat* messages have been changed and e33 added. I have
1845 also added quite a bit of extra examples and things to the relevant HELP
1846 texts. It is now possible to search from any date for up to 365 days of data.
1847 You can get the information by prefix or by callsign or for ALL spots.
1848 04Dec02=======================================================================
1849 1. updated sh/log to allow searching for more arbitrary strings such as IP
1851 08Nov02=======================================================================
1852 1. update Keps.pm to reflect which satellites now come round in the weekly
1853 updates. I suggest that you copy this file to /spider/local and do a load/kep
1854 and you should lose all the 'old' satellites (eg MIR).
1855 08Nov02=======================================================================
1856 1. made some small mods to grepdbg and spot2csv.pl
1857 2. fix a possible DOS in dx command
1858 07Nov02=======================================================================
1859 1. allow three digit longitudes
1860 2. make a small change to see if messages now stay in place.
1861 3. make keep actually stick over a reboot and take it fully into account for
1862 deletions (translators: I added m18).
1863 4. try not to delete new messages (even if this is an update that reads 'old'
1864 messages with missing fields).
1865 29Oct02=======================================================================
1866 1. make sh/log et al a bit more efficient.
1867 2. fix dupe message in dx.
1868 3. update cty.dat to the latest, add k8T, K8O to KH8 and TX5BTY to FO/A
1869 4. clear cache on reload of prefixes
1870 25Oct02=======================================================================
1871 1. remove the dupefile automatically if it becomes corrupted
1872 2. instrument the startup slightly more
1873 21Oct02=======================================================================
1875 2. make the default pinginterval and obscount variable (set/var
1876 $DXProt::pingint and $DXProt::obscount)
1877 20Oct02=======================================================================
1878 1. remove dupe check on local sysop announces
1879 2. fix format errors on sh/muf for 5.8.0
1880 3. add new version of the administration manual that includes WinCVS with
1881 thanks to K1XX (g0vgs).
1882 17Oct02=======================================================================
1883 1. added new Spanish files for help and Messages from Angel, EA7WA.
1884 16Oct02=======================================================================
1885 1. decrease the default max length of PC16/19 to around 180 characters to be
1886 slightly friendlier to ARC, which seems to have a difficulty reconstructing
1887 lines from multiple packets. Also make the value settable via set/var.
1888 2. strip off blank spaces from the ends of lines of command output.
1889 15Oct02=======================================================================
1890 1. made some detail changes to the raw USDB data and the routines that
1891 generate and operate on them. There were some bugs involving a few 'missing'
1892 callsigns which been fixed. Also there were some, for our purposes, invalid
1893 callsigns in the database which have been removed (down to about 820,000
1894 entries now). You should really update your database.
1896 The latest code now (conditionally; ie if you have it loaded it will use it)
1897 support Compress::Zlib on both *nux and Windows. The suggested procedure
1900 1. Download the corrected database from
1901 http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz to somewhere like /tmp.
1903 3. Restart (on linux, just stop the node and *don't* restart on Windows).
1904 4. remove /spider/data/usdb.v1
1906 6. (perl) create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw.gz (or wherever you put it)
1907 6a. If you don't have Compress::Zlib loaded then you will need to gunzip
1908 it manually and do: create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (not Windows :-)
1909 7. on linux, in a console window do: load/usdb, on windows: restart the node.
1911 2. Added set/usdb command to add adding or changing of a callsign in the USDB
1912 3. Stop dupe spots from the same spotter (with or without comment corruption)
1913 14Oct02=======================================================================
1914 1. added show/usdb command as a simple, direct interface to the information
1915 available in the USDB stuff.
1916 13Oct02=======================================================================
1917 1. A large change has occurred. There is now some (optional) US state recog-
1918 nition. This is in its early stages but appears to work for me. You will need
1921 1. download the database at http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz
1922 2. save it somewhere (/tmp, anywhere).
1923 3. Decompress it using your favorite program (gunzip / winzip) [call it
1924 usdbraw if winzip]{BE WARNED, some browsers may decompress it on the
1925 fly for you, you can tell; if it is 5Mb it is compressed - 16Mb not}.
1926 4. remove any /spider/data/user.v1 files lying around (at least for this
1929 6. perl create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw (ie the UNCOMPRESSED file)
1930 7. Wait, I suggest some cups of tea are in order.
1933 You don't need Compress::Zlib anymore, I assumed it was universal.
1935 You will be able do this while the node is running somewhen. There is a
1936 planned method of keeping the US DB up to date with smaller (ie < 15Mb) patch
1937 files once a week but you will have to wait a bit for the code to bed down
1938 first. You can filter on routes, spots and announces using 'call_state' or
1939 'by_state' and a comma separated list of state codes. The HELP has been
1940 updated (which may help...).
1942 Once you have run the create_usdb.pl you will need to restart.
1944 If you don't need this, then don't run create_usdb.pl it will simply be
1945 a waste of time. The run-time version is 30Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
1946 in it. This does not replace or supplant sh/qrz (sorry Charlie [who put me
1949 2. There are a number of other niff-naff changes which I hope will improve
1950 rather than hinder your user experience (including check forward as well as
1951 back for those speedy clocked dupes mentioned below).
1952 12Oct02=======================================================================
1953 1. attempt to improve the "check back for 5 minutes to see if this spot is
1954 the same as a previous one but for the time spotted" dupe check.
1955 2. improve the sh/vhftable and sh/hftable commands to allow you to enquire
1956 by dxcc country (using the relevant prefixes or dxcc country numbers).
1957 [note to translators, I have changed the help text and Messages tags for
1959 07Oct02=======================================================================
1960 1. fix problem with (invalid) callsigns starting with '0' (zero) eg 0f6ira.
1961 03Oct02=======================================================================
1962 1. only sysop (priv=5+) can now send to distro SYSOP, ordinary users will have
1963 their message routed to the $main::myalias callsign as a private message.
1964 29Sep02=======================================================================
1965 1. Added LRU caching to DXUsers and Prefix.
1966 2. make Timer::handler only search its chain once a second seeing as that
1967 is the minimum granularity available.
1968 3. add some separation between cfg file making, data generation and mrtg
1969 running. See /spider/cmd/mrtg.pl for some instructions...
1970 4. Added data in and out to the MRTG stats, you need to do an indexmaker
1971 to get them onto the index page, I have also added some colour to the
1972 legend to make what is being displayed a bit more obvious.
1974 See http://gb7djk.dxcluster.org/mrtg/stats.html for an example of the
1977 28Sep02=======================================================================
1978 1. Put some transparent caching into Prefix.pm to see if this has a
1980 2. Fix doing a new log open for every log file write.
1981 26Sep02=======================================================================
1982 1. added WWV and WCY to the Mrtg stats. Don't forget to do an indexmaker!
1983 25Sep02=======================================================================
1984 1. added mrtg stuff to the system as a template. In order to use this you
1985 must install mrtg onto your system and copy all the mrtg files (or at least
1986 all the images) to new directory /spider/html/mrtg. The system generates the
1987 config file for you as part of its workings. To get it to update add a line
1988 to your spider crontab like:
1990 00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * run_cmd('mrtg all')
1992 You will also need to do an indexmaker once in the html directory. I put the
1993 index page into /spider/html/mrtg/stats.html YMMV. I do:
1995 indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for
1996 GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg
1998 But all on one line.
1999 2. I have made a technical change to the way ax25 connects outward on unix
2000 boxes are done. I currently have no way of testing this. I think it still
2002 22Sep02=======================================================================
2003 1. Add changes to the installation manual for Windows users from K1XX
2004 21Sep02=======================================================================
2005 1. make some detail changes for connects out in Msg.pm
2006 17Sep02=======================================================================
2007 1. Added shu command for Charlie's (K1XX) benefit (together with the rest of
2008 our butterfingered sysops) who miss the '/' out of sh/u frequently enough
2009 to curse. 'shu' simply types out a message saying 'type SHUT' to shutdown the
2010 node. Added 'shu' to /spider/perl/Messages. No need to restart, just
2011 load/mess and load/alias after doing a CVS.
2012 21Aug02=======================================================================
2013 1. added 'warc' and 'contesthf' to the regions in bands.pl (K1XX).
2014 20Aug02=======================================================================
2015 1. fix lines containing just the character '0' in messages (and console.pl)
2017 2. remove all newline characters from AGW data, thus treating it like a
2018 'normal' ax25 connection where the 'newline' convention is just carriage
2020 06Aug02=======================================================================
2021 1. added 5.5Mhz band as '60m'.
2022 29Jul02=======================================================================
2023 1. Changed max R value in wcy to 500 from 300.
2024 2. Got rid of warnings on startup using 5.8.0
2025 28Jul02=======================================================================
2026 1. stick the invalid key deletes in an eval loop in export_user
2027 18Jul02=======================================================================
2028 1. Make additions and changes to manuals. (g0vgs)
2029 16Jul02=======================================================================
2030 1. Add changes to the spider-web java web client. Thanks to Rene, OZ1LQH. It
2031 should now be easier to install and run for all systems. (g0vgs)
2032 11Jul02=======================================================================
2033 1. NP work has now started in ernest ([ed]who he?). You will need to download
2034 Digest::SHA1 and any dependant packages to run this release. HOWEVER tempted
2035 you are, please don't set/newprotocol on any nodes. It won't work.
2036 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
2037 2. Make the cluster node registered on from startup (from Mark HB9DBM).
2038 3. Make the 'export_users' process *MUCH* more robust. It should now accept
2039 funny characters and not rely on an absolutely 'perfect' user file to work.
2040 Errors are displayed (and logged if done from the cluster) and then ignored.
2041 Invalid callsigns are removed.
2042 09Jul02=======================================================================
2043 1. make the is_qra more accurate (from Mark HB9DBM).
2044 04Jul02=======================================================================
2045 1. added another fix to Prefix.pm so that it resolves Japan callsigns again
2046 also you can 'set/debug prefix' to see what it is trying to do.
2047 03Jul02=======================================================================
2048 1. Added the DEMONSTRATE command which allows a sysop to demonstrate a
2049 command to a user (from a request by Charlie K1XX).
2050 2. added message e31 (xxxx is not a user)
2051 02Jul02=======================================================================
2052 1. Fixed the problem with badspotter or badnode being set to baddx if either
2053 of the data files are missing.
2054 25Jun02=======================================================================
2055 1. as predicted there was an error in the Prefix routine, I have improved it.
2056 24Jun02=======================================================================
2057 1. make set/badspotter non SSID sensitive. Set/badnode is left to be SSID
2059 2. added 3XA(=3X) and K1B(=KH1) also changed the logic of sh/prefix. This
2060 may break things, please test it.
2061 19Jun02=======================================================================
2062 1. make set/badspotter and set/badnode apply to announces and talks as well
2064 12Jun02=======================================================================
2065 1. fixed (un)set/wwv and (un)set/wcy so they don't issue spurious messages.
2066 Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
2067 07Jun02=======================================================================
2068 1. fix messages in DXDb.pm to point to the correct ones. Thanks Rene (oz1lqh)
2069 2. add missing wcys and wcyu messages to Messages. Thanks Rene (again)
2070 3. upissue version number to 1.50 (finally)
2071 16Apr02=======================================================================
2072 1. allow the rest of PC19 to continue if it contains a reference to a locally
2073 connected node. Thank you Tommy SM3OSM.
2074 19Mar02=======================================================================
2075 1. fix problems with ephemeral dup checking on PC16,17,19,21
2076 2. perturb the problem with national character sets.
2077 15Mar02=======================================================================
2078 1. add help for 'accept' and 'reject'. (g0vgs)
2079 2. adjustments to the manuals (g0vgs)
2080 3. make changes to reflect the correct output of sh/sun and sh/moon based
2081 on information from Steve, K9AN. (g0vgs)
2082 23Feb02=======================================================================
2083 1. remove old satellites from keps.
2084 2. Add information on setting up the ax25 utils to the installation manual
2086 19Feb02=======================================================================
2087 1. move the PC11 dup check after the input filter
2088 06Feb02=======================================================================
2089 1. changes to manuals to (hopefully) improve documentation and alter my email
2091 02Feb02=======================================================================
2092 1. changed sh/qrz to the latest incarnation of the command at qrz.com.
2093 29Jan02=======================================================================
2094 1. add VP8GEO to South Georgia
2095 27Jan02=======================================================================
2096 1. make save work in cron context
2097 2. try to get the C client to handle closes on its standard input better
2098 3. put some validation in cluster.pl to check that people have set it up
2100 4. fix the long callsign checking
2101 22Jan02=======================================================================
2102 1. limit spot dupe checking to first 12 characters
2103 13Jan02=======================================================================
2104 1. changed the backstop termination alarm routing in the C client so that
2105 it flushes the input and output buffer and then commits suicide.
2106 12Jan02=======================================================================
2107 1. put setsockopts into eval block to allow some of them to fail
2108 11Jan02=======================================================================
2109 1. Make M$ TCP connx blocking again, sigh...
2110 2. backed out ALL the M$ speedup and make nicer changes :-(
2111 3. cope with data coming in during the disconnection process. Don't worry
2112 Earth people, this will take no longer than 15 of your Earth seconds...
2113 10Jan02=======================================================================
2114 1. set SO_LINGER = 0 to try to prevent the system sending data on a closing
2115 socket. This MAY help some of the hanging problems (but I am now beginning
2117 2. do the same on the C client (which means DON'T FORGET to make it).
2118 3. set no nagling on the output from the node.
2119 4. set KEEPALIVE on TCP connections for both the node and C Client (you will
2120 have to make the C client again) and you will need to restart.
2121 5. It appears that it IS possible to set non blocking on M$ you just need to
2123 6. Fix problem with load/cmd_cache core dumping the system
2124 08Jan02=======================================================================
2125 1. altered sh/qrz to point to the new server
2126 2. alter the character set handling a bit to make it better for spanish
2127 06Jan02=======================================================================
2128 1. fix leading space removal from messages input from the keyboard
2129 2. make some mods to allow perl 5.7.2 to run
2130 3. create $DXProt::eph_restime to allow variable slugging of ephemeral dups
2131 4. create $DXProt::eph_info_restime to allow a long dupe time for these
2132 5. create $DXProt::eph_pc34 to allow a short anti dupe slug for rcmd loops
2133 6. Add a new sysop cmd 'save' which will save the output of any command (or
2134 list of commands in "<cmd>") to a file.
2135 7. Add a new command "echo" which echos its argument to the screen (useful
2136 for titling in the save command above.
2137 8. Increase interval between logins causing for/opernam to 60 days (from 30)
2138 + a random factor between 0 and 9.
2139 9. Added Italian translation of Messages from Luca IT9ROT (thank you
2141 10. Added the /<cmd> feature (as in talk) to execute a cmd whilst typing a
2142 message, then enhanced it so that if you do //sh/dx (for instance) it will
2143 put the result into the message (as well as show it to you).
2144 11. Added the // feature to talk as well.
2145 02Jan02=======================================================================
2146 1. updated the copyright dates
2147 2. modernised and extended the Windows instructions a bit.
2148 3. added a TODO file which is the list of things that I need to do. Please
2149 badger me to put YOUR enhancement on this list. It will then get done.
2150 31Dec01=======================================================================
2151 1. Make a couple of changes to the Installation Manual and add a FAQ on msg
2153 2. Fix unset/register so it works (g0vgs)
2154 30Dec01=======================================================================
2155 1. make PC21 coming from the channel's node call then treat it as a PC39 and
2157 2. Send the client a 'Z' command (shutdown) to see if this has any effect on
2159 26Dec01=======================================================================
2160 1. make some detail changes to help texts
2161 2. Added 'all' to the Band's region table to allow 'acc/spot on all/cw'
2162 23Dec01=======================================================================
2163 1. allow sh/dx on 1000/4000 (or 1000-4000).
2164 2. merge sh/dx and sh/dxcc commands (Alias sh/dxcc to sh/dx dxcc). You can
2165 now do things like 'sh/dxcc oq2 by w dxcc'.
2166 20Dec01=======================================================================
2167 1. Fix 'not' in filtering
2168 2. alter default max spots to 100 and the no of WWV to 5
2169 17Dec01=======================================================================
2170 1. added new satellite stuff from Steve K9AN. Fixed upper/lower problem
2172 2. enhanced load/keps to accept a message no. This will create a new keps
2173 file from a msg (hopefully containing 2 Line Nasa keps) and then load - all
2174 in one step. Added load/keps to the help files
2175 3. Updated spanish Messages
2176 4. Improve wcy command from Stephan DK8LV's input
2177 5. Added set/prompt (and unset/prompt) command so that Stephan can fool some
2178 external programs into thinking it is talking to clx.
2179 15Dec01=======================================================================
2180 1. added superfluous spaces back into PC73 for the benefit of clx
2181 14Dec01=======================================================================
2182 1. make Spanish in set/lang & Messages 'es' instead of 'sp'
2183 2. added prototype WCY and WWV commands (for qualified users only)
2184 3. Added Commands_es.hlp contributed by Angel EA7WA
2185 12Dec01=======================================================================
2186 1. added Commands_de.hlp contributed (in record time) by Stephan DK8LV.
2187 2. fixed help command so it uses it!
2188 11Dec01=======================================================================
2189 1. make PC17 generation more unconditional
2190 08Dec01=======================================================================
2191 1. added unset/hops command
2192 02Dec01=======================================================================
2193 1. Fix spurious 'new message for you' messages if things are deleted but
2195 2. stop remote passive nodes (those with version numbers of 0000) from
2196 poluting the nodes table. Maybe this will make things slightly more stable.
2197 3. Take off rspf checks on announces and spots and allow the dupe filters
2199 4. Move the dupe checking AFTER the input filtering for announces and spots.
2200 5. Changed the checking of PC19/21 that it doesn't alter the wrong node
2201 6. Alter the storage of messages so that illegal characters are stored as '.'
2202 in an attempt to stop such messages from hanging.
2203 26Nov01=======================================================================
2204 1. Make changes to the installation manual to show making the client before
2205 actually trying to use it! Thanks to oz1lqh. Also add a line for SuSE
2207 22Nov01=======================================================================
2208 1. finally fix DELETE = ^H = Backspace in console.pl
2209 21Nov01=======================================================================
2210 1. altered the PC16/17 generation slightly to see whether this cures Roland's
2212 19Nov01=======================================================================
2213 1. added Ducie Island to prefixes
2214 17Nov01=======================================================================
2215 1. updated the Java Web Interface from Ian, m0azm to allow passwords. If
2216 a user with no password enters anything, including null, it is happily
2217 accepted and ignored.
2218 2. added the German language to the Messages file from Stephan, dk8lv
2219 14Nov01=======================================================================
2220 1. make the number of characters of the dx comment dependant on the type of
2221 connection. This should mean that 'legacy' user programs can cope.
2222 2. move the handling of unprintable characters out of IntMsg
2223 07Nov01=======================================================================
2224 1. fix is_pctext so that it actually catches corrupt spots and announces.
2225 2. fix console.pl so that you can type in '0' again
2226 3. Fix problem with reply disappearing up its own bottom.
2227 4. Added Steve's latest sh/moon stuff
2228 06Nov01=======================================================================
2229 1. fix read so that sysop reading doesn't increment the read counter for
2230 private mail not addressed to them.
2231 2. fix console.pl to show blank lines more reliably.
2232 3. fix msgs so that 2 R: lines are only stored on initial entry (not just
2234 04Nov01=======================================================================
2235 1. Allow the user to equal the node in RSPF checks (this allows spots and
2236 stuff with the origin and spotter to be the same (although it is STRONGLY
2237 recommended that they are NOT!!! [hint hint]).
2238 2. make the send command rather more sensitive to what is allowed. Basically
2239 it will only allow TO addresses that are bull addresses (if not private) or
2240 vaild callsigns (if private). Bull addresses are the ones in
2241 /spider/msg/forward.pl with a 'T' flag on them. If there is no forward
2242 file it will only allow 'ALL' and 'DX' as valid Bull TO addresses. You may
2243 use commas as callsign separators if you like.
2244 02Nov01=======================================================================
2245 1. fixed some Aliasing problems, but this whole area will have to be addressed
2246 more comprehensively.
2247 2. Changed talk logging so that it hopefully is more consistant and maybe even
2249 3. Altered the mechanism of the personal emailing so that it uses lower level
2250 components and should be therefore available on M$ platforms. You will need
2251 to install a version of libnet (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then install Net::SMTP).
2252 I believe all 5.6.x perls have this built in (ie M$ should have this). If you
2253 are on M$ or you want to use an MTA via SMTP in linux then you need to declare
2254 the dns name of the MTA by: set/var $DXMsg::email_server = 'post.fred.net'
2255 (or whatever the MTA is called). You can also use local programs other than
2256 sendmail by: set/var $DXMsg::email_prog = '/usr/bin/postfix ..' or whatever.
2257 Finally you can alter the 'from' address using: set/var $DXMsg::email_from
2258 = 'FBloggs@msn.com' (\@ if you use " and ") - bewarned that you may be
2259 prevented from using just any old address. You can place these commands in
2260 /spider/scripts/startup for permanent use.
2261 01Nov01=======================================================================
2262 1. added information on registration, login scripts and passwords to the
2263 26Oct01=======================================================================
2264 1. If $main::reqreg = 1 then set/register will allow 'registered' users
2265 full access, if $main::reqreg = 2 then registered users will be 'read-only'
2266 (ie the opposite). If $main::reqreg = 0 then registration and its effects
2268 25Oct01=======================================================================
2269 1. added unset/password command to allow sysops (only) to completely delete
2270 and remove a user's password.
2271 2. make 'read' increment the 'no of times read' for all messages.
2272 3. give a read receipt for everybody that reads a message so marked.
2273 4. enhance set/email so that if you set email address(es) with this command
2274 it will send any messages to your callsign as they come in. unset/email
2275 will disable forwarding.
2276 24Oct01=======================================================================
2277 1. added (un)set/register, show/registered commands which when a 'set/var
2278 $main::reqreg = 1' is done in the startup script will require users to
2279 be 'registered' in order for them to have 'write' access to the node. Non-
2280 registered users will only be allowed to TALK or SEND PRIVATE to the cluster
2282 2. Added password interrogation to the ExtMsg connections. If a user comes
2283 in via telnet and this is being done with the internal listener and a pass-
2284 word has been set for that user - he will be asked for it. You can force
2285 a password interrogation (for ALL users) with a 'set/var $main::passwdreq = 1'
2286 in the node's startup script. It is anticipated that if you are using
2287 registration you will also issue passwords to those registered users.
2288 3. set/password has been changed so that users already with passwords can
2290 4. A non-registered user will get the /spider/data/motd_nor file instead of
2292 5. made the BadWord regexes slightly less aggressive WARNING this may let
2293 some constructions thru, but hopefully will also allow more legitimate
2294 foreign (mainly) things thru as well.
2295 19Oct01=======================================================================
2296 1. Allow DELETE (0x7f) for backspace in console.pl
2297 2. redo prefix table using latest cty.dat
2298 14Oct01=======================================================================
2299 1. Add the shortform SH/ST like display to sh/user <call> to make it more
2300 AK1A compatible (G0RDI+G4PDQ pace).
2301 12Oct01=======================================================================
2302 1. make del nnn delete messages again (fix system Aliases file)
2303 2. substr the subject so that the dup works for stuff coming back via AK1A
2304 09Oct01=======================================================================
2305 1. change Aliases to allow shutdown as a command again. If you have changed
2306 /spider/cmd/Aliases and you update from CVS you may find it better to remove
2307 this file and then do another 'cvs update'. Otherwise you may get conflicts
2308 and the Aliase file will not load properly. The cvs update will recreate
2309 the (now) missing file.
2310 2. Remove the 'please don't use XXXX on here' messages to prevent people
2311 from exploring the 'bad words space'. Three bad words will still disconnect
2313 3. Sending dx spots/announces with bad words will succeed - but only back to
2314 the sender. These two mods are designed to annoy the perpitrators of the
2315 sort of filth as much as possible whilst not inconveniencing 'normal' users.
2316 4. Add expunge feature to kill. Deleting messages now marks a msg for
2317 deletion two days hence. To have the old behaviour, do a 'kill exp' or use
2318 the standard alias "expunge". This will cause the message to be deleted at
2319 the next queue message cycle.
2320 5. Put in prototype echo handling for direct connections using ExtMsg and
2322 6. fix msgs to g1tlh-2 (as opposed to g1tlh)
2323 04Oct01=======================================================================
2324 1. allow a residence time of (default) 2 days before actually deleting a msg.
2325 2. reduce the number R: lines on a bull from a bbs to 2 (the origin and the
2327 3. ignore deleted messages for queuing purposes
2328 4. store deleted status across restarts!
2329 5. make callsign checking more rigorous
2330 6. dup check PC49 (kill full)
2331 7. improved the regex matching of badwords (more efficient, better coverage)
2332 8. added default badword and badw_regex tables (as .issue files) which will
2333 activate unless there is one there already. It will NOT overwrite an existing
2334 file - so if you change it your changes will remain intact.
2335 03Oct01=======================================================================
2336 1. don't allow @WWW to become a 'TO' field...
2337 2. handle @gb7tlh.#35.eu type addresses as well
2338 02Oct01=======================================================================
2339 1. fixed the 'ever lengthening msg' syndrome and probably made the whole
2340 thing more reliable at the same time.
2341 2. do some restructuring of the msg system and upissue the version no.
2342 3. fix @xxxx syntax for bbs input
2343 01Oct01=======================================================================
2344 1. made login info not the default
2345 2. change the looping protoection for PC16/17/19/21 and also be more rigorous
2346 in who we accept which PC16/17/21's from.
2347 3. fix MAJOR disconnect bug introduced accidentally in the NP work.
2348 4. Try each badword with an S on the end as well and also check for 'f.u c'
2349 type things as well (this only works for a few wellknown english ones).
2350 5. Go back to the old way of caching commands (but without the silly warnings
2351 because I know better what I am doing now). This allows symbolic debugging
2352 of commands again without coredumps. Hurrah!
2353 6. Add badword handling for messages. Users will get rude messages back if
2354 they try to send naughty words in msgs. Incoming messages with badwords will
2355 be dropped on receipt and their contents logged.
2356 7. and if you swear 3 or more times you are unceremoniously logged out.
2357 30Sep01=======================================================================
2358 1. made some small bug fixes in rspf checking and also messages.
2359 23Sep01=======================================================================
2360 1. I have incorporated Steve's (K9AN) lastest sh/sun and sh/moon stuff which
2361 copes much better with some of the end effects that occur in these calc-
2362 ulations. You can now also see up to a year into the past or future. The
2363 results compare favourably with the US Naval Obs (unlike certain other
2364 software's output which "I would not want to use their results to aim my
2365 moon rocket..."). It also fixes some ambiguity about which day the results
2367 21Sep01=======================================================================
2368 1. fix set/lockout so that it is possible to lock out all SSIDs except those
2369 specifically unlocked and so that you don't need to lock the non-SSID call in
2370 order to lock an SSID call. So set/lock g1tlh will lock out all instances of
2371 g1tlh, g1tlh-1, g1tlh-15 etc except (for instance) unset/lock g1tlh-9.
2372 2. show/lock allows partial callsign matching so sh/lock gb7 will only show
2373 GB7* calls that are locked.
2374 3. Had a grand shift around for the start of NP.
2375 19Sep01=======================================================================
2376 1. put in some rudimentory rsfp checking for various things
2377 2. tried to do some fixes on console.pl - YOU WILL REQUIRE Curses 1.06 from
2378 CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell, then at cpan> install Curses).
2379 17Sep01=======================================================================
2380 1. Fixed help and apropos commands so that they default to english if
2381 the language is not english and help in the 'not english' language isn't
2383 2. added some help text for sh/newc.
2384 15Sep01=======================================================================
2386 2. found 1st bug, fixed unset/logininfo reseting itself after logout
2387 14Sep01=======================================================================
2388 1. added the start of script files on login/startup. You can now add
2389 commands (for example to set variables) to a file called
2390 /spider/scripts/startup. You can also put in scripts for a callsign which
2391 will be executed when that callsign logs on. A sample script is in the
2392 directory (you did remember to do cvs update -d?). User settable versions
2393 of this will happen when the general mechanism for doing that is available.
2394 2. Added set/unset/anntalk commands. If you unset/anntalk then you will
2395 no longer see many of the of talk like announces. Unfortunately you may
2396 miss the odd useful one as well (but since everything is repeated many times
2397 you probably won't :-)
2398 3. centralise the invalid callsign check so that g1tlh1 and similar calls
2399 will not be allowed to login anymore.
2400 4. Fiddle with the lockout mechanism so that set/login g1tlh also locks out
2401 g1tlh-1 -> g1tlh-15 UNLESS one of these is specifically unlocked.
2402 5. Make sh/log only show stuff that sh/ann, sh/talk, sh/rcmd doesn't.
2403 6. Make the scripts look for user and node_default files if there isn't a
2405 7. add the blank command which prints nn blank lines (default 1), this cmd
2406 can also print lines of characters: see help for examples.
2407 13Sep01=======================================================================
2408 1. did some work on making talk more intelligent and fixed a>b problem.
2409 2. fixed a nasty problem on input when being hit with full buffers of
2410 data (eg at init time with large lists of node/users on fast links).
2411 3. fixed realtime input filter changing.
2412 4. added announce->talk conversion for routable calls when announces of the
2413 form 'to g1tlh hello', 't g1tlh hello' or 'g1tlh hello' appear.
2414 This also suppresses similar announces for users whose callsign is not the
2415 one in the announce.
2416 5. Change the badwords interface to be the same as baddx, badspotter et al.
2417 added set/badword, unset/badword and show/badword. This routine will auto
2418 convert (and delete afterwards) the old badwords file.
2419 6. fix intermittant bullitin mail forwarding?
2420 11Sep01=======================================================================
2421 1. added IP address logging of connections
2422 10Sep01=======================================================================
2423 1. clear/* node_default and user_default now work.
2424 2. in acc or rej/* you can now use (comma separated) prefixes as well as lists
2425 of numbers for things like *_dxcc, *_itu and *_cq (eg: by_dxcc ve,w); just
2426 remember that countries like ve and w have lots of zones and itus!
2427 3. Added all the clear/* commands to help and added some comments about 2.
2428 4. All filters (including *_default ones) are now reinstalled on channels in
2429 realtime, so changing a filter does NOT require a disconnect and reconnect
2431 09Sep01=======================================================================
2432 1. Add show/dxstats command
2433 2. Add show/hfstats command
2434 3. Add show/vhfstats command
2435 4. Add show/hftable command
2436 5. Add show/vhftable command (BE WARNED, the first time you run one of these
2437 commands it will take some considerable time to complete, thereafter it will
2439 08Sep01=======================================================================
2440 1. Update the sgml docs on filtering a bit.
2441 06Sep01=======================================================================
2442 1. prevent nodes appearing as users from incoming PC16s
2443 2. Change ping averaging to be like TCP and become a smoothed RTT.
2444 3. Make all the Prompts in stat/* like output appear in alphebetical order
2445 4. Fix problem with 17m spots not appearing in sh/dx
2446 5. pump up eph dups everytime they re-occur and increase life to 180 secs
2447 04Sep01=======================================================================
2448 1. add delete/user command
2449 03Sep01=======================================================================
2450 1. make spot dups look back 5 mins.
2451 2. strip the top off each character in any text field of a Spot for duping.
2452 3. Try to make the routing tables more accurate for users that login to
2454 4. Make PC50s come out in one heap on all channels every 14 mins, instead of
2455 on the 14th minute in the connection time for each channel. This should
2456 reduce (slightly) the dups that are dumped.
2457 5. Speed up input queue processing (a lot).
2458 6. make set/isolate and acc/route mutually exclusive (and issue appropriate
2459 error messages) and fix set/iso on PC18 input.
2460 7. Improve stat/route_node and stat/route_user for diagnostics.
2461 8. strip top bit of comments in ann/spots.
2462 9. fix the announce filtering problem.
2463 10. Fix the double announcement of node disconnections?
2464 01Sep01=======================================================================
2465 1. Change build number calc (hopefully for the last time)
2466 27Aug01=======================================================================
2467 1. make rej/wwv and rej/wcy work
2468 26Aug01=======================================================================
2469 1. make all newly learned nodes locked out by default.
2470 2. add lock_nodes.pl which locks out all the nodes in the user file whose
2471 privilege is 1 or less and which isn't mentioned as an argument to the
2472 command on the command line.
2473 3. make set/node, set/spider and their friends unlock a node as well as make
2475 4. Make sh/log et al more efficient / less memory hungry (and the display
2476 the correct way round!)
2477 24Aug01=======================================================================
2478 1. Allow badmsg to reject on interface callsign ('I')
2479 20Aug01=======================================================================
2480 1. protect against PC41s with field[3] == field[2]
2481 2. Redo Julian stuff as proper objects
2482 3. Make the various Log display come out forwards instead of backwards
2483 4. Add the dbgclean routine to system cron to clear out all debug files
2484 more then 10 days old.
2485 19Aug01=======================================================================
2487 2. make isolation when there are no filters present work again?
2488 3. dup check PC16/17/19/21 !
2489 17Aug01=======================================================================
2490 1. Sort out PC41 handling to include type 5 records for QRA locators and also
2491 remove all filtering (but retain ephemeral dup checking).
2492 2. Improve format checking in latlong and qra locators.
2493 3. Sort sh/st so that sh/st by itself displays only the local call not the
2494 whole lot (all 17000+ users records in my case). SH/ST ALL does this.
2495 16Aug01=======================================================================
2496 1. send a forward/opernam for a logged in user once a month (when they next
2498 2. rearrange rcmd stuff to be more maintainable and also be certain that
2499 they are translated in both directions correctly for clx and ak1a style.
2500 3. Allow PC41s to be propagated and hope that the ephemeral dup filters
2502 15Aug01=======================================================================
2503 1. fix problem with talks not coming out anymore
2504 13Aug01=======================================================================
2505 1. fixed problem of dxspots not being echoed back to spotter (announces too)
2506 02Aug01=======================================================================
2507 1. correct manual and help references on accept/route and reject/route. Thanks
2508 to ea1dav for pointing out the errors
2509 2. make sure that the actual line is printed in grepdbg & watchdbg esp. with
2510 ALL the '^' and leading space characters as they really are
2511 30Jul01=======================================================================
2512 1. changes to manuals to add links etc. (g0vgs)
2513 23Jul01=======================================================================
2514 1. made ann,dx spots,wwv,wcy,wx more 'object oriented'.
2515 2. allow for 'enhanced clients' and tell them what sort of thing is being
2517 3. Allow debug info to be sent via interface to an enhanced client.
2518 21Jul01=======================================================================
2519 1. started a gtkconsole program. It appears to sort of work. Requires Gtk-
2521 2. start doing some spot statistical stuff.
2522 19Jul01=======================================================================
2523 1. changes to Admin Manual to reflect route filtering. Some alterations to
2524 the help files (g0vgs)
2525 09Jul01=======================================================================
2526 1. fix cron so that it allows stuff to be executed on the hour (ie min=0)
2527 06Jul01=======================================================================
2528 1. fix talk and routing problems to mycall
2529 2. add unset/privilege command to relinquish any sysop privileges you might
2530 have for the current session.
2531 05Jul01=======================================================================
2532 1. disconnect channels whose route node has disappeared
2533 29Jun01=======================================================================
2534 1. fix merge command
2535 28Jun01=======================================================================
2536 1. fix problems with users on more than one node
2537 27Jun01=======================================================================
2538 1. try adding an ARC mail hack
2539 2. slug the not here messages so they can't loopback
2540 25Jun01=======================================================================
2541 1. added automatic 'not here' message
2542 21Jun01=======================================================================
2543 1. fix (some) problems with 'init'
2544 2. fix stat/msg a bit more
2545 3. small change to PC28 generation to make sure that the subject always
2546 contains at least a blank
2547 16Jun01=======================================================================
2550 14Jun01=======================================================================
2551 1. changed debug api to (potentially) use less cpu time
2552 2. changed the spider.cgi in Arnold's borrowed java client to Ian's perl
2554 3. Added input route filtering
2555 4. put back the set/isolate logic into routing which is now overridable with
2556 filters whcih means a default filter is no longer generated. If you want the
2557 OLD behaviour, do rm /spider/filter/route/*.pl*, restart and try again.
2558 5. Add http_proxy to Internet.pm and allow sh/qrz to use an HTTP Proxy
2559 13Jun01=======================================================================
2560 1. fix init cnd rinit cmds
2561 2. add missing clear/route cmd
2562 10Jun01=======================================================================
2563 1. fix set/here and unset/here
2564 2. fix indirect routing to users two hops away
2565 09Jun01=======================================================================
2567 2. add set/debug filter so that you can see why your filters aren't working
2569 3. add ephemera deduping for all those PC41,24,50 etc etc broadcasts
2570 4. Fix a problem with the connect text being sent on outgoing connections
2571 (this confuses db0fhf amongst other things)
2572 5. catch deep recursion bugs before you run out of memory.
2573 6. Make sure that PC16|17|19|21 update as well as add and delete
2574 7. local announces by the sysop will always be displayed
2575 08Jun01=======================================================================
2576 1. first cut with new routing code. Created NEW_ROUTE branch
2577 2. added acc/route and rej/route commands
2578 3. added stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands to look at the routing
2580 07Jun01=======================================================================
2581 1. move userconfig.pl and nodeconfig.pl to stat/
2582 2. fix problem with locally connected users not being removed from the
2584 3. Fix the build calc to take into account subdirectories
2585 06Jun01=======================================================================
2586 1. add stat/route_node and stat/route_user commands
2587 2. add sh/userconfig command (to show backward links to nodes)
2588 3. add sh/nodeconfig command
2589 05Jun01=======================================================================
2590 1. add set/bbs command
2591 2. more work on Routing code.
2592 3. status/msg on its own will print the status of the msg system.
2593 4. add sh/newconfig command
2594 03Jun01=======================================================================
2595 1. Fix the problem with ExtMsg and unresolvable IP addresses, hopefully
2597 15May01=======================================================================
2598 1. set/lockout now prevents any outgoing connection taking place.
2599 2. Started the new routing stuff which will run in parallel for a while.
2600 3. changed the msg timeout arrangements so that it might not get stuck so
2602 4. add $DXMsg::bulltopriv global to make msgs to known callsigns private
2603 14May01=======================================================================
2604 1. fix problem with re-reading in db definitions for remote databases.
2605 2. try to prevent situations where two can (semi) successfully login, probably
2606 under load, and get a 'tried to connect whilst already connected' abort.
2607 3. change the max number of days to search for spots to 100
2608 11May01=======================================================================
2609 1. allow stat/msg on priv 1
2610 07May01=======================================================================
2611 1. set/page 0 switches off paging
2612 03May01=======================================================================
2613 1. It appears that for ages now, not enough PC19 and PC16s are being sent
2614 if you have more than one of them. Sigh..
2615 02May01=======================================================================
2616 1. put an upper limit on the number of concurrent errors allowed in command
2617 mode (20). This should disconnect runaway spot suckers....
2618 28Apr01=======================================================================
2619 1. fix an occasional problem with 'sorry connected to' messages
2620 23Apr01=======================================================================
2621 1. fix very long standing bug in storing and transmitting spots. The decimal
2622 point was left off :-(
2623 22Apr01=======================================================================
2624 1. Sysops can now have full privileges if there is a ExtMsg listener on
2625 localhost (or everything) and they telnet to localhost and login with their
2626 callsign. This means that they don't need a client anymore (for local access)
2627 2. added input spot filtering.
2628 3. Added run_cmd to DXCron which allows you to run any command on the system
2629 from the crontab. (Dunno why I didn't do this before).
2630 18Apr01=======================================================================
2631 1. added Ian M0AZM's Java Client (SpiderConsole)
2632 17Apr01=======================================================================
2633 1. made a slight speedup on write in Msg.pm (about doubled it)
2634 16Apr01=======================================================================
2635 1. make the correct error messages come out on reject/accept when people
2636 leave out keywords like 'on'.
2637 2. Fairly major changes to the documentation tree. Split the admin manual
2638 into 2 sections, Installation and Admin and merge the Windows stuff.
2639 15Apr01=======================================================================
2640 1. made some mods to the sgml documentation for 1.47
2641 2. added show/connect command
2642 11Apr01=======================================================================
2643 1. fixed more of the "xxx disappeared from yyy" messages
2644 2. altered the build no logic so that it always checksums the same files
2645 regardless of whatever else you might have in the directory.
2646 3. made shortcut at shutdown so that you don't get a storm of PC21s on busy
2647 nodes as each connection goes down. Just send a pc39 to each interface and
2649 4. changed action of SIG{INT} and SIG{TERM} so that they now work on MSWin32
2650 10Apr01=======================================================================
2651 1. altered PC21 logic somewhat to eliminate dup PC21s
2652 2. disconnect should remove dangling local users in the routing table.
2653 3. fixed nasty recursive timer bug
2654 4. added some extra info to make connect tracking a bit easier.
2655 5. improved docs on connect scripts a bit (to include agw connects)
2656 09Apr01=======================================================================
2657 1. changed lockfile name to cluster.lck (from .lock) for MSWin's benefit
2658 08Apr01=======================================================================
2659 1. added a quick installation guide to the admin manual and removed references
2660 to client.pl (g0vgs)
2661 01Apr01=======================================================================
2662 1. changed agwrestart semantics. You need to use main::agwrestart() in your
2663 crontabs rather than AGWMsg::init();
2664 2. try to thread winclient.pl for MSWin32.
2665 31Mar01=======================================================================
2666 1. added agwrestart command
2667 2. add Iains Windoze installation manual (g0vgs)
2668 3. various alterations to adminmanual and initial version of the CVS changes
2670 30Mar01=======================================================================
2671 1. fix errors on accept in ExtMsg and in Msg
2672 2. fix the non-blocking problems of connects (and other things in general).
2673 non-blocking only works for unix implementations at the moment.
2674 3. add rinit command (sends a PC20)
2675 4. improve debuging so that stuff is always escaped and a new 'raw' debug
2676 mode that shows everything sent and received in glorious hex and characters
2677 29Mar01=======================================================================
2678 1. add better tracking of AGW circuits (possibly)
2679 2. add set and unset/agwmonitor (ing) [for all the notice it seems to take]
2680 28Mar01=======================================================================
2681 1. AGW engine stuff now accepts incoming calls and at least attempts to do
2682 outgoing ones. YMMV.
2683 2. fixed 'always' telnet on a client line in a connect script
2684 27Mar01=======================================================================
2685 1. add first cut at an AGW Engine. Copy /spider/perl/AGWConnect.pm to
2686 /spider/local and edit it appropriately. You shouldn't need a login and passwd
2687 if you are using the default setup. It may allow incoming connects (and then
2688 again it may not - I don't have a reliable infrostructure to test with at the
2689 moment). The AGW Engine is a M$ thingy, but that don't preclude you connecting
2690 to it from a unix box.
2691 22Mar01=======================================================================
2692 1. edit the helpfile for set/debug and add help for show/debug
2693 2. Allow ^Z again on messages
2694 3. Added back onboard support for ax25 OUTBOUND connections. You will need
2695 exactly the same facilities as before (ie netrom_call, ax25_call suid root
2696 etc) but it is called direct from the cluster.pl - client.pl is DEAD!
2697 19Mar01=======================================================================
2698 1. Add 'not allowed' messages into sh/filter with callsign and reduce priv
2699 2. decode %xx characters in winclient.pl
2701 18Mar01=======================================================================
2702 1. minor changes to user and admin manuals. Added revsion numbers
2703 17Mar01=======================================================================
2704 1. put block check back in, try a work around for EWOULDBLOCK/EINPROGRESS
2706 16Mar01=======================================================================
2707 1. integrate build number into main cluster and change the PC18 to show
2708 version and build in the text portion
2709 14Mar01=======================================================================
2710 1. first cut at outgoing ax25 /external program connects
2711 2. slight change of interface to connect
2712 3. added a build number to sh/version
2713 13Mar01=======================================================================
2714 1. implemented first cut at non blocking connect
2715 2. removed memory leakage in connects
2716 3. add link IP address if available on who
2717 4. made the \r\n work correctly on External connections
2718 5. removed client.pl
2719 6. fixed memory leakages in DXMsg
2720 7. fixed pc39/21 handling
2721 8. fixed routing table issues and general disconnection tidy up
2722 10Mar01=======================================================================
2723 1. minor changes to the admin manual to reflect differences in distibutions
2724 thanks to pa3ezl (g0vgs)
2725 2. add (finally) the first draft of the usermanual (g0vgs)
2726 05Mar01=======================================================================
2727 1. do some major surgery on the connect logic to shorten the possibility of
2728 duplicate connects happening
2729 2. fix stupid error on sh/qrz queries that don't work
2730 04Mar01=======================================================================
2731 1. allow fallback to english for help
2732 03Mar01=======================================================================
2733 1. allow incoming and outgoing IP connects direct to cluster.pl
2734 2. fixed (long standing)a hole in PC17 handling
2735 3. added winclient.pl (actually just a very basic client) from Iain G0RDI
2736 4. Added Spanish as a language (thanks ea1dav) (g0vgs)
2737 5. ignore BUST(ED) spots
2738 28Feb01=======================================================================
2739 1. allow sh/c gb7 (ie show the config of all gb7 nodes)(for example)
2740 2. get rid of spurious DXHash 'uninitialised' messages if no corresponding
2742 3. changed policy of $censorpc in DXProt.pm so that badwords are looked for
2743 in all text announces etc.
2744 4. Unpad (remove excess spaces from) spotted callsigns in PC11.
2745 5. test for opertaing system in various places and do different if M$
2746 27Feb01=======================================================================
2747 1. allow partial node callsigns on sh/c (eg sh/c gb7)
2748 2. Changed Msg.pm to allow a more generalised interface with more than one
2750 3. Added IntMsg.pm to implement the internal connection management that is
2751 currently scattered about the cluster code.
2752 25Feb01=======================================================================
2753 1. Fixed watchdbg so that simple arguments work again
2754 22Feb01=======================================================================
2755 1. Added platform name to sh/version
2756 2. changed client.pl so that it send \r\n instead of \n on telnet connects
2757 3. added lineend '\r\n' command to connect scripts so you can override
2759 03Feb01=======================================================================
2760 1. Changes and additions to the manual and added a help file for sh/log (g0vgs)
2761 13Jan01=======================================================================
2762 1. Documentation alterations to match new commands etc (g0vgs)
2763 08Jan01=======================================================================
2764 1. Changed the way that badnodes, baddx etc work. There is a new general way
2765 implemented (dunno why I didn't do this before - hey ho...) as a consequence
2766 there are set/unset/show baddx (for bad dx callsigns) badnode (for dx from
2767 bad nodes) badspotter (for bad spotters of dx eg VE2STN). Expect more of
2768 this sort of thing...
2769 2. Added one to the copyright dates...
2770 06Jan01=======================================================================
2771 1. Fix set/obscount so it actually works.
2772 2. Allow different number formats for set/pingint eg: 5m for 5 minutes and
2773 120s for 120 seconds (and 1h for 1 hour).
2774 03Jan01=======================================================================
2775 1. Added a txt directory for txt versions of manuals (g0vgs)
2776 2. Various documentation changes
2777 02Jan01=======================================================================
2778 1. added a help file for forward/latlong and updated the admin manual to
2780 2. Add spot2csv.pl to convert spot files into tab delimited .csv format.
2781 3. Add show/route to see which interface a station is connected on.
2782 31Dec00=======================================================================
2783 1. add lat/long info to show/prefix
2784 30Dec00=======================================================================
2785 1. added latest version of the admin manual from Ian G0VGS.
2786 23Dec00=======================================================================
2787 1. don't route anything back down the channel it came from.
2788 2. and, in the process, fix some silly errors in routing converted rcmd PCs
2789 3. changed all occurrances of 'freq' in filter help to 'on' and corrected
2790 some errors (eg freq/ssb).
2791 4. added latest admin manual.
2792 18Dec00=======================================================================
2793 1. fix double printing of DB results
2794 2. add new style filtering for WWV and WCY to complete the set
2795 3. got the field nos right (hopefully) on Announces for filters
2796 05Dec00=======================================================================
2797 1. fix frequency hinting routine so it correctly handles things like 'on 23cm'
2798 where digits are the 'wrong' way round.
2799 2. made default max days to search for spots 3 months.
2800 3. added hex decodes for those pesky 'national' characters that aren't really
2801 in grepdbg and watchdbg.
2802 4. decide that we are using Latin-1 and therefore characters 0x80-0x9f are
2804 5. fix the announces so that they are all UPPER CASE for poor old DXTelnet.
2805 03Dec00=======================================================================
2806 1. change grepdbg and watchdbg so that you can see a number of lines before
2807 the condx that you are looking for so:-
2810 will show both the LOOP line and the preceeding 2 lines.
2811 2. add PCPROT to all error condx lines in DXProt.pm so that you can watch
2812 for them more easily.
2813 30Nov00=======================================================================
2814 1. remove %nn strings from dups of announces and spots
2815 2. remove check for ssids on PC41s
2816 29Nov00=======================================================================
2817 1. make some small changes to DXmsg to try to track delete problems?
2818 2. fix ann/full so it doesn't dup
2819 27Nov00=======================================================================
2820 1. alter sh/wcy output slightly
2821 26Nov00=======================================================================
2822 1. made it possible for sysop calls to be used on other nodes and still have
2823 anti loop checking on PC16/17.
2824 25Nov00=======================================================================
2825 1. -l <nnn> now works on C client
2826 2. -e toggles echo cancelling (normally on) on C client
2827 20Nov00=======================================================================
2828 1. added even more checking to PC16,17 and 39
2829 19Nov00=======================================================================
2830 1. improve reaping code a bit more.
2831 2. put some extra checking in the PC16,17,19,21 code.
2832 3. fix problem with the aliased user disappearing and loads of 'unitialised'
2833 messages coming out.
2834 16Nov00=======================================================================
2835 1. Alter the process reaping code in cluster.pl to use waitpid
2836 12Nov00=======================================================================
2837 1. Fix lack 't' action in Filter.pm
2838 08Nov00=======================================================================
2839 1. fix cosmetic errors in for/oper for 'users'.
2840 07Nov00=======================================================================
2841 1. removed sh/call because the owner isn't happy about us using it.
2842 2. change sh/qrz to the new interface. MUCH QUICKER! you will need a user id
2843 and password from qrz.com to use it and you will have to copy the
2844 /spider/perl/Internet.pm to /spider/local and alter it accordingly. Do
2845 remember to set $allow=1 as well! The new interface comes courtesy of Fred
2846 LLoyd, the proprietor of http://www.qrz.com
2847 06Nov00=======================================================================
2848 1. Added sh/qrz to the list of callbook services
2849 05Nov00=======================================================================
2850 1. 75% speed up on sh/dx !, lower memory usage as well!
2851 2. Fixed problem with clear/spot 0 (how did this one last so long!!!)
2852 3. add 'on' in accept/reject spots as synonym for 'freq'
2853 4. add the same speed up to general log printing
2855 04Nov00=======================================================================
2856 1. fix sh/filter so ity now works for any callsign (and not just connected
2858 2. Have only one is_callsign and not an iscallsign as well.
2859 3. Add set/hops and show/hops commands.
2860 4. Add unset/badnode command and put some help in for these commands
2861 03Nov00=======================================================================
2862 1. allow - in filter strings
2863 2. store only the filter expression NOTE BENE: you will need to clear all
2864 your existing filters and re-enter them!!!!!!
2865 3. Added announce filtering
2866 4. Fixed problem with announce filtering on output to the node
2867 02Nov00=======================================================================
2868 1. updated filtering logic. You will need to RECREATE your filters (clear/spot
2869 all, then start again) for testing.
2870 2. allow PC73 for DXNet
2871 3. added some help text for filtering and filtering spots in particular.
2872 01Nov00=======================================================================
2873 1. put PC11 field 2 check back to m for pc text.
2874 2. improve 'simple' callsign checking
2875 3. Added the first cut of the new user/sysop filtering code. This cut works
2876 for spots and the syntax is:-
2878 accept/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2879 reject/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
2882 freq 0/30000 | hf | hf/cw | 6m,4m,2m
2893 channel GB7DJK,GB7BAA
2895 You can simply string these together on one line one after the other and
2896 there is an implied 'and', you can also string together with 'or' 'not' (or
2897 '!') and '(' and ')' - in otherwords an arbitrary expression.
2899 You can see what you have done with:
2901 show/filter [<call>]
2903 You can clear your work with:
2905 clear/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>|all]
2907 Have fun and someone please write the documentation.
2908 4. Added show/msg_status.pl sysop command (shows some info on what is busy in
2910 31Oct00=======================================================================
2911 1. add 0x8e to the list of characters we clobber (make xterm go into graphics
2913 30Oct00=======================================================================
2914 1. put in new Filter::it code and tested it. Now all we have to do is write
2915 the user access routines (oh and the help files!).
2916 29Oct00=======================================================================
2917 1. put in echo cancelling measures into the clients. This doesn't mean you
2918 shouldn't take steps to prevent echoing on node links, but it may help where
2919 (whatever you do) it still bloody echos! This is experimental.
2920 2. store dxchan and mynode as callsigns (and not references) in the routing
2921 tables and do some checking in accessors to see if we can capture some errors.
2922 3. tart up the stat/chan etc display to give more useful debugging info
2923 28Oct00=======================================================================
2924 1. updated show/sun and show/moon from stuff sent by Steve Franke K9AN
2925 2. added show/call which queries jeifer.pineknot.com for any call in the
2926 world (as opposed to UALR which only does US calls). Inspired by a bit of
2927 perl sent to me by Steve Franke (again!) and also Angel EA7WA who gave me the
2928 pineknot ip address.
2929 3. fixed clients so that they accept -0 as a valid SSID and then strip it off
2930 as though they had come in without (why has this taken so long to appear? How
2931 long have we been running this code ??????).
2932 27Oct00=======================================================================
2933 1. alter the code in clean_old of DXMsg system to see if we get some different
2934 behaviour with random crashing
2935 26Oct00=======================================================================
2936 1. if there is a 'connected' file in /spider/data then the client will send
2937 it out to the user after connection.
2938 25Oct00=======================================================================
2939 1. fix catchup and uncatchup commands so that they accept ranges
2940 24Oct00=======================================================================
2941 1. added cty.dat from http://www.k1ea.com/cty/index.htm to the prefix_data.pl
2942 data file and modified create_prefix.pl accordingly.
2943 2. the 'no text line' messages should now propagate correctly
2944 3. added the dxcc, itu and cq zone numbers for announcer and origining node
2945 on announce filters - see the /spider/filter/ann/*.issue files for more info.
2946 4. you can now specify a 'user_default.pl', 'node_default.pl' and
2947 'in_node_default.pl' in each of the filter directories
2948 23Oct00=======================================================================
2949 1. Added K5K as Kingman Reef
2950 1. Added K7K as Kure
2951 17Oct00=======================================================================
2952 1. force frames to go down the local interface when doing a route. This is
2953 particularly important for pings!
2954 16Oct00=======================================================================
2955 1. add a ':' after 'G7BRN de G1TLH' in a talk message.
2956 2. added /J to the list of things to ignore (as in G1TLH/J) in prefix
2957 processing (ie /J mean Jota not /JA [Japan]).
2958 3. change all INCOMING 00-08 0A-1F and 9B characters that make it past the
2959 intermediate client->server protocol to '.'.
2960 04Sep00=======================================================================
2961 1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
2963 02Sep00=======================================================================
2964 1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
2966 2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
2967 /spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
2968 ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
2969 sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
2970 are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
2971 ...k, ...ker, ...king).
2972 3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
2973 01Sep00=======================================================================
2974 1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
2975 28Aug00=======================================================================
2976 1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
2977 2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
2978 trying to disconnect themselves).
2979 3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
2980 (and transparently for spider nodes).
2981 26Aug00=======================================================================
2982 1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
2983 2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
2984 3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
2985 4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
2987 25Aug00=======================================================================
2988 1. moan about and then delete empty message files
2989 24Aug00=======================================================================
2990 1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
2991 automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
2992 23Aug00=======================================================================
2993 1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
2994 announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
2995 2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
2996 20Aug00=======================================================================
2997 1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
2998 2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
2999 and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
3000 3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
3001 19Aug00=======================================================================
3002 1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
3003 2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
3004 18Aug00=======================================================================
3005 1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
3006 2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
3007 not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
3008 3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
3009 15Aug00=======================================================================
3010 1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
3011 14Aug00=======================================================================
3012 1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
3013 2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
3014 13Aug00=======================================================================
3015 1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
3016 better for longer...
3017 05Aug00=======================================================================
3018 1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
3019 03Aug00=======================================================================
3020 1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
3022 2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
3023 (as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
3024 02Aug00=======================================================================
3025 1. put back hex check exception for PC29
3026 01Aug00=======================================================================
3027 1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
3028 generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
3029 execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
3030 2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
3031 31Jul00=======================================================================
3032 1. try to fix paging problem.
3033 2. added help for spoof and set/forward
3034 3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
3035 4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
3036 30Jul00=======================================================================
3037 1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
3038 2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
3039 3. bomb proofed the type command.
3040 4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
3041 5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
3042 6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
3043 7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
3044 8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
3045 9. Increase default hop counts all round.
3046 10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
3047 11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
3048 29Jul00=======================================================================
3049 1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
3050 and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
3052 2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
3053 sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
3055 3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
3056 28Jul00=======================================================================
3057 1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
3058 date/time translation to leave just the time.
3059 27Jul00=======================================================================
3060 1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
3061 2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
3062 3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
3063 4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
3064 5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
3066 6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
3067 7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
3068 8. Added sgml files into the source tree
3069 9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
3070 26Jul00=======================================================================
3071 1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
3072 2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
3074 3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
3075 4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
3076 duplicates and possibly corruptions.
3077 5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
3078 export the user data in ascii from cron.
3079 6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
3080 7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
3081 8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
3082 9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
3084 10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
3085 11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
3086 update the current user file.
3087 12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
3088 cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
3089 a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
3090 /spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
3091 13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
3092 14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
3093 15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
3094 corruptions and duplicates.
3095 25Jul00=======================================================================
3096 1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
3097 2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
3099 3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
3100 20Jul00=======================================================================
3101 1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
3102 2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
3103 3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
3104 4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
3105 5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
3106 blanks at the end of lines.
3107 25Jun00=======================================================================
3108 1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
3109 channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
3110 2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
3111 Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
3112 19Jun00=======================================================================
3113 1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
3114 2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
3115 via telnet in client.pl
3116 18Jun00=======================================================================
3117 1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
3118 actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
3119 Client.pl has got to go....
3120 2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
3121 17Jun00=======================================================================
3122 1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
3123 2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
3124 3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
3125 information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
3126 4. Added node type to links and who
3127 5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
3128 rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
3129 14Jun00=======================================================================
3130 1. fixed sh/node crash
3131 2. fixed RTT in who.pl
3132 13Jun00=======================================================================
3133 1. fixed looping bug in C client on ending.
3134 12Jun00=======================================================================
3135 1. Added RCMD for clx
3136 2. Added WCY processing
3137 3. Added new node types (clx, spider, dxnet, arcluster)
3138 4. Store echo settings
3139 5. Store pagelth settings
3140 6. sort out source of DXVars for callbot.pl
3143 11Jun00=======================================================================
3144 1. removed extraneous DXDebug from DXUtil
3145 2. added help for set/echo
3146 3. Centralised all spot, wwv and ann dup handling into respective packages.
3147 4. Created new AnnTalk package (for above and OOing announce and talk
3149 5. Fixed problem with outputting lines with | in them to console.pl.
3150 10Jun00=======================================================================
3151 1. got rid of some more nasty bugs in sh/qra.
3152 2. fixed 9A3xx to always be Croatia (and not Haiti!).
3153 09Jun00=======================================================================
3154 1. change some print commands in DXMsg to dbg('err'...
3155 2. overloaded confess, croak et al into DXDebug and removed Carp from
3156 everywhere and checked that the necessary debugging really does go into
3157 the debug files now.
3158 3. changed print statements in cluster.pl to dbg('err',... so they go into
3159 the debug files as well.
3160 4. Altered the logic around duplicate spots, reduced the length of comment
3161 checked to 20 characters (this should solve some problems including those
3162 people sucking ar-cluster spots with prefixes in the extreme rh end).
3163 08Jun00=======================================================================
3164 1. fixed problem with binary characters from cluster->client
3165 2. added set/echo and unset/echo commands
3166 3. echo login characters on login: prompt for C client
3167 4. Send \r\n on telnet connections for C Client
3168 5. Make echoing the default option (for M$ telnet clients :-()
3169 11May00=======================================================================
3170 1. fixed looping in Msg.pm (at last)
3171 10May00=======================================================================
3172 1. wrote a cross between 'tail -f' and grepdbg so that you can watch the
3173 debug files for particular strings and only have them print out.
3174 05May00=======================================================================
3175 1. rewrote parts of Msg.pm and client.c so that the messages no longer use
3176 a length word at the front of each one. They are simply strings of characters
3177 separated by a \n. No binary characters are allowed (they are encoded as %nn)
3178 a la HTTP. This hopefully cures Arnold's problem and also make it more
3179 secure anyway. It also paves the way for the ax25/ip multicast client.
3180 30Apr00=======================================================================
3181 1. put some extra checks and balances in to message send routine in Msg.pm to
3182 see if I can prevent the error seen by Arnold (which I think is only likely to
3183 appear in heavily loaded sites).
3184 25Apr00=======================================================================
3185 1. Changed reply so that you can reply to more than one address privately
3186 31Mar00=======================================================================
3187 1. fixed nnn-mmm in kill (erase/delete) msgs so that mmm is also deleted and
3188 not just nnn -> mmm-1.
3189 2. Added an autosplit to message importing so that messages are split
3190 automagically into bits if the filename used in the import directory starts
3191 with "split". This will add a [1/5] type string on the the end of the subject.
3192 3. dedupe more aggressively on the text of Spots so that only the 1st 27 chars
3193 of text are considered (as opposed to the whole lot).
3194 30Mar00=======================================================================
3195 1. altered client.pl connect code so that it doesn't falsely recognise
3196 /spider/src/client as a 'client' instruction.
3197 28Mar00=======================================================================
3198 1. Added buffering to client
3199 2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
3200 27Mar00=======================================================================
3201 1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
3202 2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
3203 3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
3204 4. A more robust version of the C client.
3205 5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
3206 6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
3207 7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
3208 be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
3209 26Mar00=======================================================================
3210 1. first cut of C client
3211 18Mar00=======================================================================
3212 1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
3213 08Mar00=======================================================================
3214 1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
3215 2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
3217 10Jan00=======================================================================
3218 1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
3219 08Jan00=======================================================================
3220 1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
3221 2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
3222 into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
3223 it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
3224 allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
3225 03Jan00=======================================================================
3226 1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
3227 2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
3228 of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
3230 3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
3231 01Jan00=======================================================================
3232 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
3234 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
3235 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
3236 "external" interface routines.
3237 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
3238 11Dec99=======================================================================
3239 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
3240 10Dec99=======================================================================
3241 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
3242 02Dec99=======================================================================
3243 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
3244 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
3245 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
3247 01Dec99=======================================================================
3248 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
3249 2. added www.qrz.com
3250 3. added www.buck.com
3251 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
3252 28Nov99=======================================================================
3253 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
3254 DXCluster->get_exact.
3255 24Nov99=======================================================================
3256 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
3257 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
3258 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
3259 for a field or test on a field and set another.
3260 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
3261 unread private mail does.
3262 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
3263 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
3264 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
3265 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
3266 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
3267 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
3268 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
3269 6. Added show/time command
3270 21Nov99=======================================================================
3271 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
3272 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
3273 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
3274 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
3276 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
3277 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
3278 20Nov99=======================================================================
3279 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
3280 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
3281 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
3282 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
3283 means disable pinging (not recommended).
3284 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
3285 level or passwd in stat/user.
3286 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
3287 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
3288 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
3290 19Nov99=======================================================================
3291 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
3292 2. Added rtt to who.
3293 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
3294 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
3295 18Nov99=======================================================================
3296 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
3297 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
3298 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
3299 after 12 minutes of nil response.
3300 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
3301 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
3302 17Nov99=======================================================================
3303 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
3304 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
3305 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
3306 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
3307 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
3308 14Nov99=======================================================================
3309 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
3310 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
3311 12Nov99=======================================================================
3312 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
3313 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
3314 08Nov99=======================================================================
3315 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
3316 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
3317 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
3318 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
3319 07Nov99=======================================================================
3320 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
3321 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
3323 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
3324 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
3325 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
3326 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
3327 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
3328 enquire on a local or remote database.
3329 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
3330 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
3331 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
3332 04Nov99=======================================================================
3333 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
3334 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
3335 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
3336 03Nov99=======================================================================
3337 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
3338 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
3339 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
3340 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
3341 31Oct99=======================================================================
3342 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
3344 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
3345 input spot filtering works.
3346 24Oct99=======================================================================
3347 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
3348 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
3349 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
3351 22Oct99=======================================================================
3352 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
3353 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
3354 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
3355 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
3356 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
3357 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
3358 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
3359 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
3360 to them as you get requests.
3361 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
3362 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
3363 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
3364 21Oct99=======================================================================
3365 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
3367 2. implemented sh/muf command.
3368 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
3369 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
3370 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
3371 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
3372 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
3373 20Oct99=======================================================================
3374 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
3375 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
3377 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
3378 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
3379 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
3380 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
3381 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
3382 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
3383 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
3384 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
3385 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
3386 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
3387 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
3388 18Oct99=======================================================================
3389 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
3390 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
3391 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
3392 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
3393 (request from G8TIC)
3394 21Sep99=======================================================================
3395 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
3396 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
3397 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
3398 30Aug99=======================================================================
3399 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
3400 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
3401 29Aug99=======================================================================
3402 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
3403 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
3404 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
3405 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
3406 if they have been sent as bulls.
3407 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
3408 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
3409 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
3410 25Aug99=======================================================================
3411 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
3412 24Aug99=======================================================================
3413 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
3414 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
3415 17Aug99=======================================================================
3416 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
3417 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
3419 19Jul99=======================================================================
3420 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
3421 and will look for the appropriate strings.
3422 17Jul99=======================================================================
3423 1. Started database integration.
3424 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
3425 16Jul99=======================================================================
3426 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
3427 embedded %XX characters).
3428 15Jul99=======================================================================
3429 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
3430 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
3432 10Jul99=======================================================================
3433 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
3434 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
3435 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
3436 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
3437 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
3438 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
3439 05Jul99=======================================================================
3440 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
3441 the msg and cluster node tables.
3442 04Jul99=======================================================================
3443 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
3444 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
3445 01Jul99=======================================================================
3446 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
3447 29Jun99=======================================================================
3448 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
3449 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
3450 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
3451 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
3452 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
3453 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
3455 28Jun99=======================================================================
3456 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
3457 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
3458 3. added colours to things.
3459 27Jun99=======================================================================
3460 1. added WWV filtering
3461 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
3462 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
3463 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
3465 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
3466 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
3467 messages queued up that are probably old.
3468 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
3469 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
3470 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
3471 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
3473 21Jun99=======================================================================
3474 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
3476 20Jun99=======================================================================
3477 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
3478 18Jun99=======================================================================
3479 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
3480 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
3481 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
3482 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
3483 that channel before re-initialising.
3484 4. add init command.
3485 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
3486 15Jun99=======================================================================
3487 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
3488 and dates of incidents).
3489 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
3491 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
3492 14Jun99=======================================================================
3493 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
3494 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
3495 08Jun99=======================================================================
3496 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
3497 03Jun99=======================================================================
3498 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
3500 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
3501 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
3502 dropped from those broadcasts.
3503 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
3504 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
3505 01Jun99=======================================================================
3506 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
3507 31May99=======================================================================
3508 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
3509 the channels that they are supposed to.
3510 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
3511 connecting node's privilege level).
3512 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
3513 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
3514 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
3515 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
3516 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
3517 25May99=======================================================================
3518 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
3519 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
3520 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
3521 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
3522 4. Added who command
3523 23May99=======================================================================
3524 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
3526 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
3527 23May99=======================================================================
3528 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
3529 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
3530 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
3531 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
3532 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
3533 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
3534 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
3535 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
3536 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
3537 and from callsigns etc.
3538 22May99=======================================================================
3539 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
3540 2. added show/files and type commands
3541 21May99=======================================================================
3542 1. made set/nodx work again.
3543 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
3544 18May99=======================================================================
3545 1. Added announce dup checking.
3546 2. Added system announce filtering.
3547 08May99=======================================================================
3548 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
3549 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
3550 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
3551 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
3552 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
3553 or user lines as input.
3554 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
3555 05May99=======================================================================
3556 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
3557 02May99=======================================================================
3558 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
3559 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
3560 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
3561 30Apr99=======================================================================
3562 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
3564 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
3565 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
3566 26Apr99=======================================================================
3567 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
3568 very little checking.
3569 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
3571 25Apr99=======================================================================
3572 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
3573 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
3574 20Apr99=======================================================================
3575 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
3576 corruptions/missing users less likely.
3577 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
3578 3. check dates much more rigourously.
3579 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
3580 15Mar99=======================================================================
3581 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
3582 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
3583 3. Added sysop command
3584 02Mar99========================================================================
3585 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
3586 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
3587 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
3588 25Feb99========================================================================
3589 1. added NL language stuff.
3590 2. added set/language
3591 21Feb99========================================================================
3592 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
3593 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
3594 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
3595 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
3596 17Feb99========================================================================
3597 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
3598 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
3599 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
3600 15Feb99========================================================================
3601 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
3602 14Feb99========================================================================
3603 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
3604 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
3605 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
3606 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
3607 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
3608 11Feb99========================================================================
3609 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
3610 local configs to new connections.
3611 08Feb99========================================================================
3612 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
3613 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
3614 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
3615 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
3616 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
3617 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
3618 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
3619 30Jan99========================================================================
3620 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
3622 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
3623 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
3624 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
3626 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
3627 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
3628 18Jan99========================================================================
3629 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
3630 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
3632 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
3633 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
3634 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
3635 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
3637 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
3638 the -M semantics are rather strange!
3639 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
3640 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
3642 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
3643 the call is connected to the node.
3644 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
3645 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
3646 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
3648 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
3649 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
3650 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
3652 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
3653 17Jan99========================================================================
3654 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
3655 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
3656 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
3658 3. Started filter and Database code.
3659 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
3661 07Jan99========================================================================
3662 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
3663 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
3664 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
3666 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
3667 06Jan99========================================================================
3668 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
3669 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
3670 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
3671 them)(thank you G0RDI).
3672 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
3673 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
3674 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
3675 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
3676 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
3677 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
3678 03Jan99========================================================================
3679 1. Upped the version no !!!!
3680 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
3681 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
3682 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
3683 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
3684 28Dec98========================================================================
3685 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
3686 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
3687 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
3688 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
3689 27Dec98========================================================================
3690 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
3691 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
3692 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
3694 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
3695 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
3696 23Dec98========================================================================
3697 1. Reindented various things
3698 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
3699 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
3700 22Dec98========================================================================
3701 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
3702 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
3703 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
3705 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
3706 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
3707 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
3709 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
3710 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
3711 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
3712 problems with the leading '0'!
3713 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
3714 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
3715 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
3716 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
3717 I have added a merge command.
3718 21Dec98========================================================================
3719 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
3720 2. Added more docs for client program.
3721 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
3722 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
3723 4. issue release 1.13
3724 20Dec98========================================================================
3725 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
3726 cluster and running a few commands).
3727 2. Added per node hop control.
3728 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
3729 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
3730 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
3731 19Dec98========================================================================
3732 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
3733 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
3734 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
3735 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
3736 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
3737 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
3738 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
3739 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
3740 14Dec98========================================================================
3741 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
3742 a real telnetd on port 23.
3743 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
3744 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
3745 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
3746 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
3747 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
3748 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
3749 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
3750 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
3751 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
3752 different scripts for the same callsign.
3753 8. Added sh/wwv command
3754 13Dec98========================================================================
3755 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
3756 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
3757 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
3759 4. fixed telnet connections
3760 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
3761 6. Added some more help
3763 12Dec98========================================================================
3764 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
3765 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
3766 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
3767 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
3768 disjoint cluster networks)
3769 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
3770 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
3771 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
3773 07Dec98========================================================================
3774 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
3776 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
3777 should stop clients hanging on exit.
3778 3. Added Alias support for help
3779 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
3780 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
3782 06Dec98========================================================================
3783 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
3784 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
3785 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
3786 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
3787 5. Started adding more help
3788 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
3789 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
3790 05Dec98========================================================================
3791 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
3792 04Dec98========================================================================
3793 1. Started Changes file
3794 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
3795 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
3796 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
3797 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
3798 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
3799 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
3800 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl