"Fossies" - the Fresh Open Source Software Archive 
"Fossies" - the Fresh Open Source Software Archive 1 Wed Mar 29 2006 Ben Woodard <ben@zork.net> 2 * Made it compile on Fedora Core 5 3 * Added a patch from Jim.Wadell@bp.com to make it work with cannon 4 printers 5 6 Thu Nov 12 2002 Ben Woodard <ben@zork.net> 7 * Added serialnum feature to HP printers 8 9 Teu Dec 4 2001 Mark Benvenuto <markb@cs.columbia.edu> 10 * Worked around a bug in gcc 2.96 11 12 Teu Dec 4 2001 Ben Woodard <ben@zork.net> 13 * Many many new changes since the last log. 14 * Started cleaning up the changelog. 15 16 Tue Jan 30 2000: Ben Woodard <ben@valinux.com> 17 * 0.9 didn't work at all because the pthread create was inside of an 18 assert 19 * Fixed all of the places where inappropriate things were inside of 20 asserts. 21 * Added an entry in the severity for state 22 5="warningBinaryChangeEvent" 23 24 Thu Jan 11 2000: Ben Woodard <ben@valinux.com> 25 * Added support for the Xerox 220ST 26 27 Sat Jan 16 1999 Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 28 * Fixed various bugs that have been piling up for some time. 29 * Added support for some new printers. 30 31 Fri Jan 16 1999 Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 32 * Program is now multithreaded and can handle large numbers of 33 printers on the command line. 34 * Added reboot option 35 * Removed a bunch of options that don't work out of the man page. 36 37 Sun Nov 22 1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 38 * Changed over to automake using automake actually tried it on HPUX 39 and solaris I think that my chances of success will be much better. 40 41 11-12-1998: Ben Wodoard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 42 Pretty much swung around to petter's viewpoint on how to make it more portable 43 put in the const patch and the getopt patch. Made a missing config.h.in. const 44 patch still needs some work though. I need an autoconf option for it. Took 45 out the line that trys to add snmp to /etc/services. 46 47 11-9-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 48 Announced 0.6.4 on freshmeat a couple of days ago and got quite a few responses. 49 Finally merged in some of damian's patches as well as quite a bit of work done 50 by Petter Reinholdts to get ports working for HPUX and IRIX. Also added the 51 infostructure to add objects from the private mibs. Decided that there were 52 enough changes to call this 0.7. 53 54 55 10-5-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 56 Bugs fixed: 57 --alerts time now works properly. Had order of subtraction reversed. 58 Features added: 59 Now appears to work on a solaris boxes. 60 61 9-29-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 62 Bugs fixed: 63 --supplies asserted out when tektronix returned some out of bounds type and 64 units 65 --printmib and --hostmib didn't register properly on a Color Laserjet 5. 66 Features added: 67 made the alert time appear in the number of seconds from the unix epoch 68 rather than from the printer startup time. This way we can display the time. 69 70 9-21-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 71 Bug fixed: 72 --status returned a 2 exit value when you tried to use it on a HP 4 series 73 printer. 74 75 9-16-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 76 Note: 77 Ain't it just the way. The day after you do a release you discover a bug and 78 and a feature you need. 79 Features added: 80 --display now works on HP 4 series printers. Forgot that I would need this 81 feature when writing pquedisp.pl. Another nasty HP specific hack. 82 Bugs fixed: 83 --version now works. The code for this had somehow disappeard. 84 85 9-15-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 86 Features added: 87 --status and it even works on older HP's 88 Bugs fixed: 89 Fixed more bugs that were causing it to not report properly for any of the 90 protocol breakouts. 91 Brought a few places up to current printmib specification so that a it 92 wouldn't assert out on the 4500. 93 Changed the bits for the set flags because they didn't take into acount the 94 three reserved bits. 95 Fixed the way it determines what optparams to stick the parameter's option 96 in. 97 Made it so that 8100's are recognised as modern printers. 98 Note: 99 Discovered that setcontact doesn't work on the 5si printers but it does work 100 on the 4500. Suspect that it is a bug in the 5si firmware. Called HP and 101 they added to my previous case HP case#1420924269 102 Decided that --connection should be an undocumented probably broken feature 103 beacuse I can't seem to get it to work properly. 104 105 9-14-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 106 Bugs fixed: 107 Fixed a bug that caused it to not properly report port 9100 available status 108 Previously fixed several bugs with the connection parameter but it still 109 doesn't work. The problem seems to be the printers faulty implementation of 110 the tcp table. I put a request in with HP to fix this at least on the 4500 111 which should fix it for the rest of the EIO equipped units. 112 Features added: 113 Added the --help option especially for adam. 114 115 8-27-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 116 Note: 117 I discovered that the problem with --languages crashing 5M and 5N printers is 118 a bug in HP printers not this program. HP case#1420924269 119 120 8-26-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 121 Bugs fixed: 122 Tiny bug in write_debu_bin where the parameter was only a char and the value 123 that was being passed into it could easily exceed that. 124 Bug: 125 Discovered that --languages crashes 5M and 5N printers. 126 127 8-15-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 128 Bugs fixed: 129 Parameters that had arguments such as sets were not working. Optional values 130 were not being set. 131 Set_req_tag not correct. 132 133 8-14-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 134 Dang I need to remember to write in this file more often. 135 Features added: 136 Support for QMS printers (not much since they don't provide much) 137 Support for Some small xerox printers. 138 Added timeout for damian a while ago. 139 Added optimization in the makefile a while ago 140 More modular code. Made the main function a lot simpler. 141 Bugs fixed: 142 Fixed the problems with optimization and the old g++ compiler. 143 144 7-31-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 145 Bugs fixed: 146 SNMP log corrupted when doing --netconfig --debugsnmp k2-opsteam 147 IPaddr's were backward in snmplog 148 Made it so that strings print out non printable characters in hex. 149 Fixed a problem where it wasn't listening to sequence numbers. This made 150 it so that the SNMP library would occasionally be confused. Two identicle 151 packets were sent and then a different packet. The reply to the second of 152 the identical packets was misinterpreted as the response to the second 153 query. Also table lines were sometimes repeated. 154 Fixed a problem where the lenght of a sequence wasn't being recalculated 155 properly after something was extracted from it. This showed up when a host 156 didn't report a default gateway and we tried to resubmit the shortened 157 packet. 158 159 7-30-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 160 Hmm. Haven't edited this file in a while. Plenty has changed. This is what I 161 can remember. 162 Features added: 163 --debugsnmp now also puts a hex dump in the snmplog file 164 configure script now correctly determines if the compiler needs the 165 -fhandle-exceptions option 166 Bugs fixed: 167 Now works on big endian machines. (phew that was tough) 168 Spurrious asserts due to IPaddr's length not being set properly fixed. 169 Spurrious crashed due to decode_status fixed. 170 Known bugs: 171 Sure no shell escape characters get passed back 172 On xerox time too large in alert table make it work. 173 Model and vendor for QMS printers 174 Todo: 175 Make --shell option 176 List when a protocol or other entry is enabled. 177 Firmware revisions 178 Reboot printers 179 How was a printer's IP info configured 180 make it so that you can coorelate the time and the alert 181 make the code more object oriented. Get rid of these linked lists and use 182 a template container class STL? 183 make RPM's 184 make the scripts that turn to put this on the web. 185 186 6-19-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 187 Features added: 188 The ability to set variables to the snmp library 189 The ability to have options that have parameters 190 191 Bugs fixed: 192 Fixed a bug where it put the man page one level too far down. 193 Fixed a bug where it crashed when you gave it an hostname it couldn't lookup. 194 195 6-17-1998: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@cisco.com> 196 197 This is the first beta release of npadmin a tool for working with 198 network printers. Right now it is designed to be used in shell scripts 199 to query information about a network printer. In the future it will 200 also be able to set variables in network printers. It is primarily 201 designed to work with printers that support RFC 1759. It was developed 202 on RedHat Linux 5.0 and tested with the following printers: 203 HP 5si 204 HP 4000 205 Lexmark Optra S 2450 206 Lexmark Optra SC 1275 207 Lexmark Optra N 208 Xerox Docucenter 230 SE 209 Tektronix 560 210 211 Todo: 212 better error state passing between the library and npadmin 213 figure out how the printer's IP address was configured. 214 Is this a printer 215 firmware uploader 216 take out asserts 217 make it possible to set variables 218 printout modes html, human, shell 219 verbosity switches 220 range of ipaddr 221 filter out alerts 222 find printers on subnet 223 64bit clean 224 Do marker colorant table