 15 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, compiler warnings cleaned up
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Latest C/C++ compilers (MacOS 10.10, GCC on RHEL7 and Ubuntu) generate a large number of new
warnings about unused variables, unused functions, dead code, failure to check return values of system
calls, etc.
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 22 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ROOT support in flux
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> ROOT support in MIDAS is being reworked:
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> c) Makefile inconsistency between use of ROOTSYS and use of root-config has been identified,
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22 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ROOT support in flux
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> > ROOT support in MIDAS is being reworked:
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> > c) Makefile inconsistency between use of ROOTSYS and use of root-config has been identified,
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23 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, rootana lz4 support, mlogger improvements
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> A set of improvements to mlogger is in:
> b) test version of LZ4 high speed compression, support for bzip2 and pbzip2
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23 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mlogger improvements
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> A set of improvements to mlogger is in:
> The current test version implements the following selections of "compression":
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24 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MAX_EVENT_SIZE removed
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The define for MAX_EVENT_SIZE was removed from midas.h.
Replacing it is DEFAULT_MAX_EVENT_SIZE set to 4 MiBytes and DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
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24 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Plans for improving midas network security
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There is a number of problems with network security in midas. (as separate from web/http/https security).
1) too many network sockets are unnecessarily bound to the external network interface instead of localhost (UDP ports are already bound to localhost on |
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24 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Plans for improving midas network security
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There is a number of problems with network security in midas. (as separate from
web/http/https security).
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28 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Plans for improving midas network security
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New git branch "feature/rpcsecurity" implements these security features:
- all UDP ports are bound to the localhost interface - connections from outside are not possible
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29 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, error
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> Hello, I am new in the forum. We are running an experiment for a week with no
> problems. Now we add a detector a we found an error. Even we come back to our
> previous configuration the error continues appearing. Please, may someone help
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29 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mlogger improvements - CRC32C, SHA-2
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> A set of improvements to mlogger is in:
Preliminary support for CRC32-zlib, CRC32C, SHA-256 and SHA-512 is in. Checksums are computed correctly, but plumbing configuration is
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29 Jul 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ROOT support in flux
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The preliminary version of the .bashrc blurb looks like this
(a couple of flaws:
1) identification of CentOS7 is incomplete - please send me a patch
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10 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, bk_create change
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> bk_create()
> frontend.cpp:954: error: invalid conversion from ‘DWORD**’ to ‘void**’
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12 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Merged - improved midas network security
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> New git branch "feature/rpcsecurity" implements these security features:
Branch was merged into main midas with a few minor changes:
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12 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd HTTPS/SSL server updated
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> > > mhttpd uses the latest release of mongoose 4.2
HTTPS support is completely broken in mongoose.c between July 28th (1bc9d8eae48f51ceb73ffd918046cfe74d286909)
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14 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Merged - improved midas network security
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> [local:Online:S]RPC hosts>set "Allowed hosts[1]" "host.psi.ch"
> [ODBEdit,INFO] Reloading RPC hosts access control list via hotlink callback
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19 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Sequencer limits
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> See LOOP doc
> LOOP cnt, 10
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24 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on midas history
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27 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd HTTPS/SSL server updated
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Stefan identified a serious multi-thread locking bug in mhttpd that affects the operation of the sequencer (a race condition between db_set_record() and
db_get_record() inside the hotlink code). This is now fixed. If you use the sequencer, please update mhttpd.cxx to the latest (or to this) version.
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27 Aug 2015, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd HTTPS/SSL server updated
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> I find that I don't understand this recommendation to use secure mongoose
> instead of putting mhttpd behind an apache proxy.
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