iTools 6.5 Release Notes
Serious Tools for the Internet
10-17-2001

Welcome to Tenon's iTools 6.5! iTools 6.5 includes many new features and
enhancements. iTools is a family of tools essential for serious commercial 
content delivery. iTools for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server extends and 
enhances OS X built-in networking with ease-of-use, increased functionality, 
and performance. These tools are derived from Tenon's award winning WebTen 
software. They are based on standard and open internet protocol implementations. 
They are designed to complement and extend Apple's Mac OS X Apache to 
make it easy for webmasters to set up and support sophisticated network 
servers. With iTools, the ultimate content creation platform becomes the ultimate 
content delivery platform. 

Included In This Version

- Apache Web Server 1.3.22: World's most popular http server. iTools 
  harnesses the Apache web server to bring you the most powerful and
  flexible web content delivery suite.
- Squid Cache 2.4 STABLE2: Proxy/Cache, speeds up your website. Now
  with multi-threading, SNMP support, and user-agent and referer logging
  capabilities.
- mod_ssl 2.8.5: Apache interface to the OpenSSL libraries. Enables secure
  transactions on your website using 56 or 128 bit encryption.
- OpenSSL 0.9.5a Libraries: Strong Secure Socket Layers encryption.
- mod_perl 1.26: Embedded Perl interpreter. Speeds up your Perl based CGI's
  and web applications.
- FastCGI 2.2.10: Speeds up CGI programs by keeping them loaded in memory.
- BIND 8.2.4: Internet standard Domain Name Server.
- sendmail 8.12.0: Widely used internet mail server. Now with SSL support
   for more secure mail delivery.
- mod_dav 1.0.2: Brings DAV capabilities to iTools.
- wu-ftpd 2.6.1: Powerful multihoming ftp server.
- Tenon's Admin Server 6.5: Improved SECURE web based iTools 
   administration, and remote administration with iTools Manager.
- Net::SSLeay 1.0.7 Perl Module: For utilizing and developing secure web 
  applications with the Perl scripting language.
- Apple Apache Modules: 
        mod_hfs_apple.so: Fixes case-sensitivity security holes. 
        mod_sherlock_apple.so: Apache interface to sherlock.
        mod_macbinary_apple.so: Allows proper download of .bin files.

New in iTools 6.5

- New Multi-Package Format: iTools 6.5 introduces a new multi-package format.
   This allows for a more customized installation of the iTools suite onto your
   computer. To install, simply double-click the iTools.mpkg file located in the iTools
   directory. During the Installation Type phase of the install, you will see a Customize
   button near the bottom of the installer screen. By clicking the Customize button, 
   you are able to select which components you would like to install: iTools core, BIND,
   ipop3d-imapd, and sendmail. 

   IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have another mail server (Communigate Pro, etc.) or 
   DNS server (QuickDNS Pro) installed on the same machine that you are installing
   iTools on, and wish to preserve these software packages, you may have to de-select
   some iTools components during installation. To preserve a previously installed
   mail server suite, you will most likely want to deselect the sendmail and ipop3d-imapd
   components. To preserve a previously installed DNS server suite, you will probably
   want to de-select the BIND component package. By not doing so, iTools may 
   overwrite files integral to the proper operation of these software packages.

- iTools Manager: Maximize your remote administration capabilities with the new
  iTools Manager, an Aqua-based GUI for Mac OS X/Server! Remotely manage 
  multiple iTools servers, on any of the iTools platforms (Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server 10.X,
  Mac OS X Server 1.2, Linux) from one location.

Remote Installation of iTools

Users are able to remotely install or upgrade their iTools servers via the included
installer.sh shell script, located in the iTools directory. This option is primarily for
those who have co-located servers, and do not always have keyboard-monitor
access to their machines. In order to remotely install or upgrade your iTools server, 
please follow the simple steps below:

1. Start up Terminal.app and establish a telnet or secure shell session with your
     remote server.
2. Ftp the iTools .tar.gz file to your remote machine, and untar with the following
    command: tar zxvf iTools-tar-file.tar.gz (replace iTools-tar-file.tar.gz with the
    actual filename that you ftp'd)
3. Change into the resulting iTools directory. There you should see a file called
     installer.sh, and a Packages directory. You will not be able to install the
    iTools.mpkg file with installer.sh. Therefore, you will have to install each individual
    package within the Packages directory separately. To see which packages are
    available, type: ls Packages
4. Once you have decided which packages you would like to install, you may invoke
    the installer.sh command in your terminal with two arguments, --install followed 
    by the path to the package. For instance: ./installer.sh --install Packages/iTools.pkg
    will install or upgrade the iTools core package on your system.

Minimum System Requirements

- Apple Mac OS X (10.0+)
- PowerPC G3 or G4 Processor
- 128 MB RAM or more (256 MB RAM recommended when using WEBMail)
- Network Connection
- 20 MB Free Disk Space

Licensing Information

This version of iTools includes a built-in 14-day license. For more 
information about iTools, and to purchase a permanent license, contact 
Tenon at:

Tenon Intersystems 
1123 Chapala Street 
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone:  1-805-963-6983 
eMail:  info@tenon.com 
http://www.tenon.com