I've just uploaded source and binary rpms for the ht://Dig 3.1.5 web site search engine to incoming.redhat.com, for eventual inclusion on contrib.redhat.com. I've also placed them on the htdig.org site, in http://www.htdig.org/files/binaries/. They can also be downloaded from the SCRC web site, at http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/htdig/rpms/. This is the latest stable release and is recommended for all production servers. This version in particular fixes a nasty security hole in htsearch that is present in all previous versions, including 3.1.4 and 3.2.0b1. Because of this, it is *strongly* recommended that all users update to this version. The following RPMs were built on Red Hat Linux 4.2, 5.0* and 6.0 respectively: htdig-3.1.5-0.i386.rpm htdig-3.1.5-0.sparc.rpm htdig-3.1.5-0.src.rpm htdig-3.1.5-0glibc.i386.rpm * (see note below) htdig-3.1.5-0glibc.src.rpm * (see note below) htdig-3.1.5-0glibc21.i386.rpm (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0) htdig-3.1.5-0glibc21.src.rpm (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0) Verify /etc/htdig/htdig.conf, then run /usr/sbin/rundig after installing, to (re)build all your databases. ---- Name : htdig Distribution: (none) Version : 3.1.5 Vendor: (none) Release : 0 Build Date: Fri Feb 25 14:42:33 2000 Install date: Fri Feb 25 16:18:23 2000 Build Host: cliff.scrc.umanitoba.ca Group : Networking/Utilities Source RPM: htdig-3.1.5-0.src.rpm Size : 3096247 Packager : Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.htdig.org/ Summary : A web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet Description : The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol. ---- * Note to Red Hat 5.0 & 5.1 users: There's an obscure bug in vixie-cron on Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 systems, in its SIGCHLD signal handling. It causes htmerge to fail consistently with a "Word sort failed" error, when run from a cron job. It could potentially cause similar problems with other jobs. I recommend upgrading to the latest vixie-cron from the 5.2 distribution updates: vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.alpha.rpm vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.i386.rpm vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.sparc.rpm vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.src.rpm They can be obtained from any Red Hat Linux update mirror site, or along with the htdig RPMs from my web site above. ---- Release notes for htdig-3.1.5 25 Feb 2000 This version cleans up some remaining bugs in the 3.1.4 release. As the latest stable release of ht://Dig, it is recommended for all production servers. * Fixed a nasty security hole in htsearch, which would allow users to view any file on your site that had read permission. * Fixed a bug that could cause problems with 8-bit characters on some systems. * Made some attempts to get htsearch's output to be more HTML 4.0 compliant. It quotes all HTML tag parameters, and uses ";" instead of "&" as parameter separator in URLs for next pages. Reserved characters in parameters are now encoded. * Fixed handling of SGML entities: htdig will still decode them to store as single characters in the database, but htsearch now encodes some of them back for compliant results. * Added two new formats for variables in htsearch templates, $%(var), which escapes the variable for a URL, and $&(var), which HTML-escapes the variable as necessary. * Fixed htdig's handling of robots.txt, such that only the first applicable User-agent field bearing its name will be used, rather than only the last. * Fixed htdig's handling of servers that return 2-digit years. * Fixed handling of embedded quotes in quoted string lists. * Fixed handling of relative URLs with trailing ".." or leading "//". * Fixed handling of the valid_extensions attribute, which sometimes failed in the previous version. * Enhanced the handling of local filesystem indexing with the local_urls, local_user_urls or local_default_doc attributes, which now allow multiple directory or file names to be tried. * Added the build_select_lists attribute to allow the config file to specify <select> form elements in htsearch output as a template variable, much like $(SORT) and $(METHOD). * Added support for two additional configuration attributes: max_keywords, and nph. * A variety of other bug fixes, and many documentation updates. See the ChangeLog for details. * Once again, thanks to everyone who reported bugs and bug fixes. The full ChangeLog for this release is available from: http://www.htdig.org/ChangeLog -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this.
