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README
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Maintainer/Enhancer
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Bryan Stansell (bryan@conserver.com) of Certainty Solutions, Inc. -
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formerly Global Networking and Computing (GNAC).
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Big new version released!
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7.0.0 is out! What's so great about 7.0.0? GNU's autoconf has been
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integrated by Mark Roth (roth@feep.net)! I met Mark at the [1]LISA
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conference last December and he (quite quickly) provided the patches.
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I've been dragging my heels getting it out to others, but it's now
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available.
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Now that I have autoconf capabilities, I've taken out the need to edit
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the conserver/cons.h file - everything is now a --with or --enable
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configure argument (makes sense, doesn't it!?!). As with any X.0.0
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release, I may have introduced something bad into the code for systems
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I don't have access to, so be careful.
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I've successfully built 7.0.0 on Solaris and Linux. I've been told the
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client has built successfully under cygwin on NT (progress on the NT
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front!). Last report shows FreeBSD as a failure (any coders out there
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with FreeBSD have time to send me patches?). If anyone successfully
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builds and installs the software under other operating systems, I'd
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love to hear about it.
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Finally, a FAQ!
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Here's the start of a conserver [2]FAQ. Got any additions? Let me
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know.
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Mailing Lists
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There are currently two mailing lists available.
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[3]announce@conserver.com is an announcement-only mailing list for
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informing of new versions, major developments, etc.
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[4]users@conserver.com is for general Q&A, discussions, ideas, etc
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for conserver users. You can sign up my sending a message to
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list-request@conserver.com with a subject of "subscribe" or head
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over to the online [5]web pages.
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Origin
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The console server software found here is a heavily modified
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version originally written by Tom Fine (fine@head-cfa.harvard.edu)
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and then Kevin S Braunsdorf (ksb+conserver@sa.fedex.com). Patches
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from Robert Olson (olson@mcs.anl.gov) were then applied to get
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network console support.
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Arnold de Leon (arnold@corp.webtv.net) then fixed various bugs and
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added enhancements while at Synopsys. I then took the result and
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continued fixing things and adding features we found useful.
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Certainty Solutions has been supporting my coding efforts (in too
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many ways to list) since 1996.
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The conserver.com Distribution
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The result is a combination of many people's work. This version is
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being released in hopes that it will help others. There is no
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warranty or support implied by the distribution of the software.
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As of version 6.1.7, the packaging and numbering scheme has
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changed. I used to package conserver as conserver-GNAC-v.vv. Since
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GNAC (now [6]Certainty Solutions) has changed it's name I've
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decided to drop the GNAC portion and use a 3 digit version number
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(conserver-v.v.v). Why change the version numbering? I need to
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differentiate this thread of the code from the original authors and
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I couldn't come up with a good replacement for the GNAC name - sad,
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but true.
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Downloading
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The latest version can be found at http://www.conserver.com/.
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Other Good Information
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Zonker Harris has fabulous documents regarding the hookup of
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consoles to terminal servers and other such devices. His
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[13]Greater Scroll of Console Knowledge is a great place to start.
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References
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1. http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa2000/
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2. http://www.conserver.com/FAQ
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3. mailto:announce@conserver.com
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4. mailto:users@conserver.com
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5. https://www.conserver.com/mailman/listinfo
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6. http://www.certaintysolutions.com/
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#
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# $Id: README,v 1.14 2001-02-18 22:49:41-08 bryan Exp $
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