Free fedora core software for linux

glFTPd is a free FTP server for UNIX based systems. It is highly configurable and its possibilities are endless.
One of the main differences between many other ftp servers and glFTPd is that it has its own user database which can be completely maintained online using ftp site commands. glFTPd runs within a chroot environment which makes it relatively safe.
Main features:
- Virtual users and groups
- Bandwidth throttling (global and per user)
- Upload/Download ratio support
- On the fly CRC calculating of files being uploaded
- Script support on almost all commands and operations
- Online user management (add/remove/edit users using site commands)
- Built-in statistics viewable using site commands
- Encryption support through TLS/SSL integration
- ACL Support
- Many more ...
Enhancements:
- Fix: check return value of fclose when uploading file, somehow NFS likes to fail to close a file
- Fix: when upload error occured do silent zipscript check after the error was sent to client
- Fix: There where some problems with CHOWN when moving files across disks
- Fix: Installer updates by psxc (now it should also work with fedora core 3, which has no `which` command)
- Fix: few small typos in the docs
- Fix: the first abor response line had a multiline-indicator which was wrong
- Change: tls cleanup
- Fix: tls errors will now go to error.log instead of syslog
- Fix: when glftpd will no longer loop it if crashes during logout

Mozilla Quickstarter runs an instance of Mozilla in background.

As I still dont detect if there is any instance of Mozilla running, you should close all your Mozilla applications before start it.

The window of Mozilla that MozillaQs creates will show the url of your home page in Mozilla. If you dont like this you only must add about::blank in your preferences.

I have some translations pending, but I was not able to include them due to some problems with my project of kdevelop.

Also I would like to include some icons, but I have problems with them too. So you must have installed the crystal icon package for run MozillaQs perfectly.

The reason for deleting the other applications (composer, chat and addresbook) from the menu is that they cause some problems (they dont use the perfil that the user is using)and you should launch they from a new instance of Mozilla that you launch from MozillaQs (I have this problem in Fedora Core 2 without using MozillaQs and I dont know how to solve this)

Boston University Linux is based on Fedora Core Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment.

Weve added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with the way things are set up here, and added some applications that we think you might like to have.

The server edition of BU Linux provides a modern, stable, and robust server platform suitable for long-term deployment in many roles throughout the university.

Supported Hardware

Currently, only i686-class machines are supported. This includes almost everything from Intels Pentium Pro on. AMD64 and Intel EM64T systems will work fine using their 32-bit mode. Watch for a 64-bit version later this summer.

Specific Notes on Server Applications

Mail Server:

BU Linux 4.5 Server Edition (Zodiac) includes three different choices of Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for your mail server. Each of these open source servers has its unique strengths, and you can install one or more and use the utility system-switch-mail to choose which is active.

The default is IBMs Postfix, which is designed from scratch to be secure and easily configurable. On a newly-installed BU Linux machine, Postfix is configured to exchange mail on the local machine and to send mail out to other systems, but not receive mail from the network. For this reason, outgoing mail from global BU accounts (those matching valid BU login names and with the proper UID) will appear to come from @bu.edu rather than @hostname.bu.edu. Local users (including system accounts) will retain the hostname, but without reconfiguration, any replies will bounce. Changing the system to accept mail is easy; see the BU Linux web site for details.

For the maximum flexibility and for compatibility with existing configurations (and with existing expertise), we also include the traditional standard Sendmail. And, if you have particular special needs, you may find that the new Exim MTA fits your situation best.

No matter which MTA you choose, please contact us if you need any assistance. With so many options available, the situation can be confusing, and its unfortunately easy for an accidentally misconfigured system to become a target for spam relayers. We have significant expertise at configuring both Postfix and Sendmail in a variety of situations, and will be glad to help.

FTP Server:

This release of BU Linux provides two options for FTP. The first is vsftpd, which is designed to be simple and secure. This is the most appropriate for almost all situations, but if you require more power and flexibility, we also include ProFTPd, which has many more options and a configuration syntax similar to that of the Apache web server.

Please also remember that FTP is an insecure protocol and that any passwords used travel over the network in plain text. For this reason, its best to avoid anything but anonymous FTP. For user-authenticated file transfer, use SSH and SFTP. (SFTP is provided by the OpenSSH server and enabled by default.)

Web Server:

The web server software included in BU Linux is the industry-standard Apache httpd. We also include PHP 4.3 and many other useful tools for building a web server.
If you need to provide authenticated access to web services to BU users, please contact us and we will provide you with our University-standard Weblogin module. This provides a powerful and flexible means of single-signon access control for the BU user community and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to provide this for your users.

Database Server:

BU Linux includes MySQL 4.1 and PostgreSQL 7.4. For less demanding SQL applications, we also provide SQLite 3, which provides simple SQL databases without the management overhead of running a SQL server.

BCD396T Manager controls the Uniden BCD396T scanner. It supports full radio remote control, systems programming, and scanner settings.

It was written on a fedora core 3 linux system but with minor changes, could be made to run on any system that has tcl/tk installed.

Youll need a few tcl/tk helper apps in order to run BCD396T Manager:

- The Widget Callback Package: Wcb
- The Multi-Entry Widget Package: Mentry
- The Multi-Column Listbox Package: Tablelist
- You will also need the Bwidget package.

These will need to be installed in your tcllib directory, -ie- /usr/lib/tcl8.4

Installation:

Install the program by extracting the tarball into a new directory. Execute the program, bcd396t.tcl.

A quick note about editing the system files. It seems that, using the tablelist widget, you must hit Enter to finish the edit of the cell.

Program Guard allows the user of a Linux workstation to specify which application programs that are allowed TCP/IP connections to the Internet (Internet addresses are defined as any IP address not in the range of 10.0.0.0/24 or 192.168.0.0/16).

The application program names can be specified by listing them in a file (Static Mode) by querying the user (Query Mode). In Query Mode, when a program that is unknown to Program Guard attempts to access an Internet IP address, Program Guard displays the Program Guard Dialog Box.

In addition to providing connection information, this dialog box gives the workstation user the option of allowing the program to access the Internet or to be blocked from accessing the Internet. This can be done either for the current instance of the program or for this and all future instances of the program (Make Persistent checkbox).

Currently, the program names that are allowed or denied Internet access apply to all users of the workstation rather than on a per user basis. For example, if Program Guard is running in Query Mode and user A invokes a program previously blocked from Internet access by user B, the program will be blocked from Internet access for User A as well.

Connections blocked by Program Guard are logged to the Program Guard log file pgrd.log. It is located in the /var/log/pgrd directory. If desired, Program Guard can be configured to log all Internet connection attempts rather than just those that have been blocked.

Program Guard was tested on Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 3 on single processor 32 bit X86 Intel processors. It has not been tested on other distributions or on multi-processor machines. While it works on Fedora Core 1, it will not build on a standard Linux 2.4.x kernel due to task_struct definitions that were not made until Linux 2.6. If there is enough interest, a version that runs under a standard Linux 2.4 kernel may be made available.

To run in Query Mode, Gnome 2.x and Glade 2.x are required. There are no prerequisites for Static Mode.

Installation:

Program Guard consists of three components: a kernel module; a daemon; and a Gnome GUI user interface component. All files needed to build the components are in the pgrd.tgz file. An installation shell script install-pgrd is provided for Fedora distributions.

It will build/install (or remove) the kernel module and daemon as well as configure them to be started automatically when the system is booted. To invoke it, type install-pgrd < install | remove >. This script may or may not be useable as is for other Linux distributions.

If you modify the install script, please note that the module, daemon and various support files must be installed in the /opt/pgrd directory for Program Guard to work properly (this is already handled when using the install script as provided). To run in Query Mode, each user must be configured by invoking the install-pgrd_user < username > script. And by going to the Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions selection in the Fedora Main Menu and adding pgrdgui to the Startup Programs tab.

Program Guard will be started the next time the machine is rebooted. If you do not wish to reboot, you may start Program Guard manually as described below in Manual Starting And Stopping. Note: If starting manually and using Query Mode, once the daemon and kernel module are started, make sure that you log out and log back in.

rpmstrap is a tool for bootstrapping a basic RPM-based system. rpmstrap package is inspired by debootstrap, and allows you to build chroots and basic systems from RPM sources.
At present rpmstrap can build basic Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Yellowdog 4, CentOS 3, CentOS 4, Mandriva and Scientific Linux systems. It also has support for custom RPM-based systems managed by PDK.
The best way to answer this is to give a couple of quick examples of its usage:
- You are developing an application which you want to test on Fedora Core 3, but you are running Debian. Use rpmstrap to build a "heidelberg" chroot and you have a scratch Fedora Core 3 which you can test your application in.
- You are running Xen and wish to run a CentOS 4 virtual server, however you do not want to use the Anaconda installer. Use rpmstrap to bootstrap your virtual server.
- You have an application you wish to package cross-platform. You already have debootstrap for a Debian chroot, but you dont have any for Fedora Core 3 or CentOS 4. Use rpmstrap to build chroots for the two RPM distros in question and package your application inside them.
- You have a risky upgrade that could hose a production Fedora Core 2 server. You want to test the upgrade to make sure nothing will go wrong (and, if it does, you want to know how to fix it). Simply create a "tettnang" chroot using rpmstrap and configure it like your production Fedora Core 2 server. Perform your upgrade inside the chroot, using it as a guinea pig.
- You wish to install CentOS 4 across a network on a system you do not have physical access to but do have remote administrative access. SSH in, rpmstrap a CentOS 4 bootstrap into a mounted filesystem, set the new boot preferences, and reboot.
Usage:
Usage: rpmstrap [OPTION]... []
Bootstrap RPM-based systems.
--arch set the target architecture (use if no uname)
[ --arch x86_64 ]
--download-only download packages, but dont perform installation
--delay insert a friendly delay in seconds between each
attempt to download an RPM
[ --delay .5 ]
--local-source specify a local source directory for RPMS
[ --local-source /home/sam/rpm ]
--pdk-source=A,B specify a PDK workspace and component to pull RPMs
from
[ --pdk-source=workspace/path/,component.xml ]
--print-rpms print the packages to be installed, and exit
--unpack-tarball acquire .rpms from a tarball instead of http
--strip-path when unpacking from tarball, use the strip path
(See the texinfo document for tar)
--list-suites list the available suites this program knows
--suite-notes show the notes associated with a specific suite
--find-best-mirror find the best mirror (warning VERY slow, may be
better to just use a slow mirror ;-)
--try-mirrors instead of just using the default mirror, try
sequentially all of the mirrors in the event of
a failure
--force force installation of RPMs even if there are
errors
--ignorearch force installation of RPMs even if they are
for different architecture
--help display this help and exit
--include=A,B,C adds specified names to the list of base packages
--exclude=A,B,C removes specified packages from the list
--pre runs a script before the installation
[ --pre pre-install.sh ]
--post runs a script after the installation has completed
[ --post post-install.sh ]
--verbose run in verbose mode
Enhancements:
- This release updates the sl402, centos3, and centos4 suite scripts.
- It adds suite script migration utilities.
- It adds functionality for rpmstrap to act as an RPM upgrade utility.

KickstartWeb is a complete web interface for provisioning Linux machines using Kickstart and PXE booting. KickstartWeb has been tested with Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS.
It provides control over your tftp files and a complete web GUI for creating and managing Kickstart files.
You can manage multiple Linux distributions, multiple Kickstart profiles, and have default and/or MAC-specific provisioning.
Enhancements:
- perl-URI
- perl-HTML-Tagset
- perl-HTML-Parser
- perl-Compress-Zlib
- perl-libwww-perl
- perl-XML-Parser

OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for OpenVZ Virtual Private servers (VPS).
VPSs are isolated, secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict.
Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VPSs can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files. OpenVZ is a subset of Virtuozzo.
Enhancements:
- Updated to the latest FC5 kernel and the latest OpenVZ kernel (including the checkpointing/live migration feature).