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<TD colspan="2" align="center">Please pick your closest
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mirror: <A href=
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"http://planetmirror.com/pub/conserver/">Australia</A>
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<A href="http://www.conserver.com/">US
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<H3>What is conserver?</H3>
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<TD colspan="2">
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<P>From an email I once sent...</P>
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<P>Conserver is an application that allows multiple users
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to watch a serial console at the same time. It can log
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the data, allows users to take write-access of a console
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(one at a time), and has a variety of bells and whistles
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to accentuate that basic functionality. The idea is that
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conserver will log all your serial traffic so you can go
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back and review why something crashed, look at changes
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(if done on the console), or tie the console logs into a
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monitoring system (just watch the logfiles it creates).
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With multi-user capabilities you can work on equipment
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with others, mentor, train, etc. It also does all that
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client-server stuff so that, assuming you have a network
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connection, you can interact with any of the equipment
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from home or wherever.</P>
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<H3>The FAQ</H3>
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Here's the conserver <A href="FAQ">FAQ</A>. Got any
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additions? Let me know.
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<H3>Mailing Lists</H3>
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<P>There are currently two mailing lists available. <A
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href=
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"mailto:announce@conserver.com">announce@conserver.com</A>
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is an announcement-only mailing list for informing of new
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versions, major developments, etc. <A href=
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"mailto:users@conserver.com">users@conserver.com</A> is
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for general Q&A, discussions, ideas, etc. for
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conserver users. You can sign up by sending a message to
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<A href=
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"mailto:announce-request@conserver.com">announce-request@conserver.com</A>
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or <A href=
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"mailto:users-request@conserver.com">users-request@conserver.com</A>
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with a subject of "subscribe" or head over to the online
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<A href="https://www.conserver.com/mailman/listinfo">web
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pages</A>.</P>
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<H3>Origin</H3>
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<P>The console server software found here is a heavily
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modified version originally written by <A href=
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"http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/">Tom Fine</A> (<A
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href=
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"mailto:fine@head-cfa.harvard.edu">fine@head-cfa.harvard.edu</A>)
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at <A href="http://www.ohio-state.edu/">Ohio State</A>
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and then Kevin S Braunsdorf (<A href=
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"mailto:ksb+conserver@sa.fedex.com">ksb+conserver@sa.fedex.com</A>)
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at <A href="http://www.purdue.edu/">Purdue
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University</A>. Patches from Robert Olson (<A href=
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"mailto:olson@mcs.anl.gov">olson@mcs.anl.gov</A>) at <A
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href="http://www.anl.gov/">Argonne National
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Laboratory</A> were then applied to get network console
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support.</P>
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<P>Arnold de Leon (<A href=
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"mailto:arnold@corp.webtv.net">arnold@corp.webtv.net</A>)
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then fixed various bugs and added enhancements while at
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<A href="http://www.synopsys.com/">Synopsys</A>. I then
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took the result, continued fixing things, and added
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features we found useful.</P>
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<P><A href="http://www.gnac.com/">GNAC</A> (Global
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Networking and Computing - currently <A href=
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"http://www.certaintysolutions.com/">Certainty
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Solutions</A>) has been supporting my coding efforts (in
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too many ways to list) since 1996.</P>
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<H3>The conserver.com Distribution</H3>
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<P>The result is a combination of many people's work.
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This version is being released in hopes that it will help
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others. There is no warranty or support implied by the
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distribution of the software.</P>
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<P>So, what the heck is up with all the different
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conserver versions? Well, the original authors are
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continuing to distribute their own threads of the
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software so you have three main threads (as far as I
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know). First, there's Tom Fine's thread at <A href=
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"http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/console-server.html">
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http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/console-server.html</A>.
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He isn't actively developing it, however, according to
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the website. Next, there's Kevin Braunsdorf's version at
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<A href=
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"ftp://ftp.physics.purdue.edu/pub/pundits/">ftp://ftp.physics.purdue.edu/pub/pundits/</A>.
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It doesn't look like Kevin is working on his thread ony
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more either. No new versions have been out since August
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2000 (version 8.5), but maybe this info will be out of
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date by the time you read this (I last checked Feb 10,
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2004). Lastly, the conserver.com version is based on
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Kevin's "5.21-Beta" distribution, but since
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<B>HEAVILY</B> modified and enhanced (more details in the
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"Origin" section above).</P>
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<P>If I were looking for a conserver package I would
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definitely use the conserver.com distribution. Why? It's
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actively maintained, has many more features than the
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other versions (see <A href="CHANGES">CHANGES</A> for a
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semi-scary history), and has an active user community.
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Kevin's version does have UPS support (basic serial port
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line toggling bits) which is missing in the conserver.com
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version, but no one has asked me for it, so does anyone
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actually need it?</P>
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<H3>Downloading</H3>
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<P>The current version, released on Mar 11, 2004, is <A
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href="8.1.2.tar.gz">8.1.2.tar.gz</A>. You can get it via
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<A href=
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"ftp://ftp.conserver.com/conserver/8.1.2.tar.gz">FTP</A>
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or <A href="8.1.2.tar.gz">HTTP</A>. See the <A href=
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"CHANGES">CHANGES</A> file for information on the latest
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updates.</P>
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<P>As of version 6.1.7, the packaging and numbering
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scheme has changed. I used to package conserver as
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conserver-GNAC-v.vv. Since <A href=
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"http://www.gnac.com/">GNAC</A> (now <A href=
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"http://www.certaintysolutions.com/">Certainty
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Solutions</A>) has changed its name I've decided to drop
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the GNAC portion and use a three-digit version number
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(conserver-v.v.v). Why change the version numbering? I
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need to differentiate this thread of the code from the
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original authors' and I couldn't come up with a good
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replacement for the GNAC name - sad, but true.</P>
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<H3>Installation</H3>
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<P>Check the <A href="INSTALL">INSTALL</A> file for
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instructions.</P>
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<H3>Online Documentation</H3>
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<P>I've put a small set of documentation <A href=
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"docs/">here</A>. I'm hoping to expand it over time.</P>
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<H3>Systems Tested</H3>
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<P>Here's a list of systems that I've been told can
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successfully compile conserver. If anyone has more to add
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to this list (or something on the list doesn't work any
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more), please let me know.</P>
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<UL>
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<LI>AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2, native cc</LI>
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<LI>BSDI BSD/OS 3.X, gcc</LI>
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<LI>Cygwin (w2k),gcc 2.95.3</LI>
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<LI>DEC Tru64 4.0, gcc</LI>
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<LI>DEC Tru64 4.0/5.1, native cc</LI>
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<LI>FreeBSD 4.2/4.8/5.1 (x86), gcc</LI>
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<LI>HP-UX 10.20, gcc</LI>
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<LI>HP-UX 11.10 parisc and ia64, native cc</LI>
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<LI>Irix 6.15, native cc</LI>
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<LI>Linux 2.2.18 (x86), gcc</LI>
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<LI>Linux 2.4.2 (x86), gcc</LI>
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<LI>Linux ia64, native gcc</LI>
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<LI>Linux RedHat 6.2 and 7.2 (x86), native gcc</LI>
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<LI>MacOS X, native gcc</LI>
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<LI>Solaris 2.5.1 thru 9 (sparc/x86), gcc</LI>
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<LI>Solaris 7/8, native cc</LI>
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<H3>Other Good Information</H3>
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<P>Zonker Harris has fabulous documents regarding the
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hookup of consoles to terminal servers and other such
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devices. His <A href="consoles/">Greater Scroll of
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Console Knowledge</A> is a great place to start.</P>
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<ADDRESS>
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Bryan Stansell (<A href=
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