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16            <div id="topnav">
17              <ul>
18                <li>
19 <                <a href="#news">News</a>
19 >                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20                </li>
21                <li>
22 <                <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
22 >                <a href="#news">News</a>
23                </li>
24                <li>
25                  <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
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28                  <a href="#bindings">Language Bindings</a>
29                </li>
30                <li>
31 +                <a href="#packages">Packages</a>
32 +              </li>
33 +              <li>
34                  <a href="#development">Development</a>
35                </li>
36                <li>
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42              </ul>
43            </div>
44            <h2>
45 <            <a id="news">News</a>
45 >            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
46            </h2>
47            <p>
48 <            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
49 <            subscribe to our project over on
50 <            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
48 >            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
49 >            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
50 >            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
51 >            interfaces which can be used to access key system
52 >            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
53 >            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
54 >            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
55            </p>
49          <h3>
50            Thursday 20 May 2004
51          </h3>
56            <p>
57 <            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
58 <            Download it
59 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz">
60 <            here</a>.
57 >            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
58 >            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
59 >            DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend
60 >            this to include as many operating systems as possible.
61            </p>
62            <p>
63 <            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
64 <            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
65 <            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
66 <            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
67 <            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
68 <            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
63 >            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
64 >            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
65 >            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
66 >            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
67 >            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
68 >            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
69 >            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
70 >            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
71 >            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
72 >            to use statgrab.
73            </p>
74 +          <h2>
75 +            <a id="news">News</a>
76 +          </h2>
77            <p>
78 <            The other main change in this release is a new function to
79 <            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
80 <            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
70 <            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
71 <            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
72 <            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
73 <            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
78 >            To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not
79 >            subscribe to our project over on
80 >            <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>?
81            </p>
75          <p>
76            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
77            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
78            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
79            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
80          </p>
82            <h3>
83 <            Sunday 21 March 2004
83 >            Sunday 31 July 2005
84            </h3>
85            <p>
86 <            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
87 <            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
87 <            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
86 >            Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
87 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
88            </p>
89          <h3>
90            Wednesday 10 March 2004
91          </h3>
89            <p>
90 <            Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
91 <            Download it
92 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">
93 <            here</a>.
90 >            This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
91 >            API change. More details have been added to the file
92 >            system statistics, linux partition detection has been
93 >            reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
94 >            Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
95 >            There are also manual pages for all the tools.
96            </p>
97            <p>
98 <            This release brings new features and new platforms. We've
99 <            added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed,
100 <            etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o
101 <            errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for
102 <            OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done
104 <            to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated
105 <            privileges. See the NEWS file for more information.
98 >            The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
99 >            changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
100 >            We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
101 >            the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
102 >            defined.
103            </p>
104            <h3>
105 <            Wednesday 11 February 2004
105 >            Tuesday 26 April 2005
106            </h3>
107            <p>
108 <            Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
109 <            Download it
113 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">
114 <            here</a>.
108 >            Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
109 >            <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
110            </p>
111            <p>
112 <            The main focus of this release is adding support for
113 <            Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use
114 <            libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras
115 <            directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the
116 <            code.
112 >            Thanks to the work of
113 >            <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
114 >            libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
115 >            unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
116 >            updated.
117            </p>
118            <h3>
119 <            Wednesday 21 January 2004
119 >            Thursday 3 March 2005
120            </h3>
121            <p>
122 <            Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
123 <            Download it
129 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">
130 <            here</a>.
122 >            Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
123 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
124            </p>
125            <p>
126 <            This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file
127 <            descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant
128 <            speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along
129 <            with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the
130 <            library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now
138 <            released under the LGPL instead of the GPL.
126 >            This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
127 >            settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
128 >            full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
129 >            filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
130 >            ignored. These have all been fixed.
131            </p>
132            <h3>
133 <            Tuesday 6 January 2004
133 >            Friday 12 November 2004
134            </h3>
135            <p>
136 <            Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
137 <            Download it
146 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">
147 <            here</a>.
136 >            Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
137 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
138            </p>
139            <p>
140 <            This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial
141 <            support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk
152 <            names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names.
153 <            There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in
154 <            various places. Finally, a new function has been added to
155 <            make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab
156 <            may require on some operating systems.
140 >            This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
141 >            also fixes a few other minor issues.
142            </p>
143            <h3>
144 <            Wednesday 22 October 2003
144 >            Wednesday 25 August 2004
145            </h3>
146            <p>
147 <            Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
148 <            Download it
164 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">
165 <            here</a>.
147 >            Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
148 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
149            </p>
150            <p>
151 <            The most significant change in this release is support for
152 <            NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been
153 <            optimised, and an initialise function has been added to
171 <            allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab
172 <            needs. The list of known file systems has been increased,
173 <            and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms.
174 <            Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't
175 <            get all the statistics.
151 >            This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
152 >            adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
153 >            the tarball for more details.
154            </p>
155            <h3>
156 <            Saturday 18 October 2003
156 >            Tuesday 27 July 2004
157            </h3>
158            <p>
159 <            Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
160 <            Download it
183 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">
184 <            here</a>.
159 >            Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
160 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
161            </p>
162            <p>
163 <            This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and
164 <            some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some
189 <            fixes to saidar, and statgrab.
163 >            This release fixes a problem with the shared library
164 >            version number in the last release.
165            </p>
166            <h3>
167 <            Friday 10 October 2003
167 >            Monday 26 July 2004
168            </h3>
169            <p>
170 <            Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
171 <            You can download it from our mirror site
197 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">
198 <            here</a>.
170 >            Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
171 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
172            </p>
173            <p>
174 <            This release includes some exciting new tools, support for
175 <            FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major
176 <            bugfixes and packaging enhancements.
174 >            This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
175 >            We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
176 >            NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
177 >            that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
178 >            variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
179 >            suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
180 >            we've added error reporting functions that store errno
181 >            values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
182 >            NEWS file.
183            </p>
184            <h3>
185 <            Tuesday 09 September 2003
185 >            Thursday 20 May 2004
186            </h3>
187            <p>
188 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
189 <            libstatgrab.<br />
211 <            You can download version 0.5.1 from
212 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">
213 <            here</a>.
188 >            Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
189 >            Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
190            </p>
215          <h3>
216            Monday 25 August 2003
217          </h3>
191            <p>
192 <            We're pleased to announce a new release of
193 <            libstatgrab.<br />
194 <            You can download version 0.5 from
195 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">
196 <            here</a>.
192 >            This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
193 >            of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
194 >            this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
195 >            we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
196 >            for those who still need the old functions we have provided
197 >            compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
198            </p>
199            <p>
200 <            This release provides both documentation and examples,
201 <            which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay
202 <            tuned for the next release with some useful tools.
200 >            The other main change in this release is a new function to
201 >            provide full details on currently running processes. See the
202 >            documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
203 >            this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
204 >            process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
205 >            error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
206 >            see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
207            </p>
230          <h2>
231            <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
232          </h2>
208            <p>
209 <            libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
210 <            access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
211 <            It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
212 <            interfaces which can be used to access key system
238 <            statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
239 <            usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
240 <            network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
209 >            Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
210 >            of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
211 >            bindings - they're now available as their own project called
212 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
213            </p>
214 +          <h3>
215 +            Sunday 21 March 2004
216 +          </h3>
217            <p>
218 <            The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux
219 <            2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x,
220 <            DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to
246 <            include as many operating systems as possible.
218 >            pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
219 >            bindings, has been released. Check out it's
220 >            <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
221            </p>
248          <p>
249            The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
250            first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
251            curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
252            system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
253            interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
254            extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
255            anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
256            Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
257            <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
258            to use statgrab.
259          </p>
222            <h2>
223              <a id="download">Downloading</a>
224            </h2>
225            <p>
226              The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
227 <            our primary download
228 <            <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/">
267 <            mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our
227 >            our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
228 >            All downloads are pgp signed using our
229              <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
230            </p>
231            <p>
232              For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
233 <            files contained within the archive. If you're using
273 <            <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make
274 <            use of the
275 <            <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab">
276 <            devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you.
233 >            files contained within the archive.
234            </p>
235            <h2>
236              <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
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250              Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
251              that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
252              a binding for another language, please get
253 <            <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
253 >            <a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we
254              can add a link here.
255 +          </p>
256 +          <h2>
257 +            <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
258 +          </h2>
259 +          <ul>
260 +            <li>
261 +              <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
262 +            </li>
263 +            <li>
264 +              <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
265 +            </li>
266 +            <li>
267 +              <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
268 +            </li>
269 +            <li>
270 +              <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
271 +            </li>
272 +            <li>
273 +              <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
274 +            </li>
275 +          </ul>
276 +          <p>
277 +            These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
278 +            that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
279 +            we've missed any out, please let us know.
280 +          </p>
281 +          <p>
282 +            We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating
283 +            to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
284 +          </p>
285 +          <p>
286 +            Several attempts were made to submit a port to the
287 +            OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking
288 +            it. You can find it
289 +            <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz">
290 +            here</a>.
291            </p>
292            <h2>
293              <a id="development">Development</a>

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