GeoXPlanet now available at Sourceforge.net

[rocket357]

The project I linked a while back (the one that plots active tcp/ip connections in XEarth/XPlanet) has been hosted by sourceforge.net and is currently available for download:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoxplanet/

[praka123]

really a nice work @rocket357.hope i can try this sometime later.

[gary4gar]

Good work there
now i can also my desktop as mission critical control room

but just three donwloads is sad

[rocket357]

@Praka123:

Thanks, man. Let me know if you do try it out how it works for you.

@Gary4gar:

I'm listing it as "alpha" state because honestly, I haven't tested it against every distro out there. And you have to keep in mind that I just uploaded the 0.1 release less than 48 hours ago (I posted at LinuxQuestions.org and then here immediately after I uploaded it) =P I consider this to be somewhat of "specialty" software (eyecandy is eyecandy, guaranteed, but if you look at the eyecandy provided by infra_red_dude's project, you'll notice it has a LOT more "flair" to it than GeoXPlanet)...and besides, this isn't a contest heh.

Thanks for your interest, guys!

[infra_red_dude]

awesome work rocket. so finally you put it up

downloading it...........

[rocket357]

I had a list of TO DO's that was quite long...all having to do with this project. I told a friend of mine about it, and he downloaded it, studied the code, and wrote up a patch that will open the platform list up quite a bit (writing that code was #3 on my TO DO list).

If you run Windows, or *BSD, or Solaris, or whatever, it should work when I get Version 0.2+ out (developer discussion going on currently about what version should be next...guess I set a bad precedent by going with 0.1 and following that immediately with 0.2...I should've followed with 0.1.1 or whatever). I personally think the project will hit "stable" before we get to 1.0 even if we go with 0.3, 0.4, etc...but the other dev on the team is concerned...

Anyhow, be looking for 0.2.x or 0.3 tonight, as I have plans to integrate all of the new code and push out a new release (Windows/BSD support + better database integration + a few optimizations).

And just so you know, infra_red_dude, I saw that you took over Mac4Lin, and it "inspired" me to give it a shot and see if my project would get accepted...so thanks! =)

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by rocket357

I had a list of TO DO's that was quite long...all having to do with this project. I told a friend of mine about it, and he downloaded it, studied the code, and wrote up a patch that will open the platform list up quite a bit (writing that code was #3 on my TO DO list).

you haf done a pretty good job in documentation. i read it!! the version, is already 0.2...coooool...

Originally Posted by rocket357

And just so you know, infra_red_dude, I saw that you took over Mac4Lin, and it "inspired" me to give it a shot and see if my project would get accepted...so thanks! =)

hope it inspires more ppl to contribuit to the OSS movement!

[rocket357]

Version 0.3 is out now (the code has received quite a bit of functionality enhancement over the past 2-3 days), and this one is multi-platform (BSD/Windows/etc...). Running on Windows is not quite up to par with running on Linux (a few path issues), but it's useable.

[gary4gar]

downloaded the latest release( a alpha tester here)

well i simply ran by

./GeoXPlanet.py 
Reading the config file... Searching for database modules...please wait
unexpected EOF while parsing (<string>, line 1)
No module named psycopg2
No module named psycopg
No suitable database module was found!
Done reading config file
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Adding xx.xx.xx.xx from cache!
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Adding xx.xx.xx.xx from cache!
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Adding xx.xx.xx.xx from cache!
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Adding xx.xx.xx.xx from cache!
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Adding xx.xx.xx.xx from cache!
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.xx
deleting xx.xx.xx.xx
Performing lookup on xx.xx.xx.x

its not working for me!

[rocket357]

Strange...it should try to use online lookup before database lookup. Perhaps I uploaded an incorrect GeoXPlanet.conf?

Edit - There were two problems with the uploaded package. One had to do with the Windows modifications interfering with Linux, and the other was an incorrect setting in GeoXPlanet.conf (useDatabase should default to "False", but it was set to "True")

Thanks for pointing it out, gary4gar.

GeoXPlanet-0.3.1 is available with the Windows/Linux fix and with a *correct* GeoXPlanet.conf file.

Edit #2 - When you say "it's not working for me", do you mean it isn't performing lookups, or it isn't plotting the locations in XPlanet/XEarth? Given the output, it appears to be performing lookups...so if you know for a fact it isn't performing lookups, please let me know!

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by rocket357

Strange...it should try to use online lookup before database lookup. Perhaps I uploaded an incorrect GeoXPlanet.conf?

Edit - There were two problems with the uploaded package. One had to do with the Windows modifications interfering with Linux, and the other was an incorrect setting in GeoXPlanet.conf (useDatabase should default to "False", but it was set to "True")

Thanks for pointing it out, gary4gar.

GeoXPlanet-0.3.1 is available with the Windows/Linux fix and with a *correct* GeoXPlanet.conf file.

Edit #2 - When you say "it's not working for me", do you mean it isn't performing lookups, or it isn't plotting the locations in XPlanet/XEarth? Given the output, it appears to be performing lookups...so if you know for a fact it isn't performing lookups, please let me know!

You guess it right its looking up & but does not plot anything

will test version 0.3.1 now

[edit]

still the same problem rocket
it does look up but does not map anything

[vish786]

great work dude. Thumbs up 2 u !!!!

[praka123]

firewall?@gary?

[infra_red_dude]

rocket, even i'm facing some problems.

i haf both xearch and xplanet installed. i edit some paths in gnome.sh and its works fine (xplanet as the desktop background). but on running ur script, it doesn't proceed to the 2nd step. its stuck at first: Reading the config file... Done reading config file

thats it... won't go further. upon breaking it (ctrl C), it gives this msg: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./GeoXPlanet.py", line 254, in <module>
time.sleep(delay)
KeyboardInterrupt

i'm clueless.....

[rocket357]

gary4gar: do you have xearth/xplanet pointing to the correct markerfile? Check the README that comes with it...towards the bottom there's an example command to make xearth/xplanet plot with the markerfile...(also, if you run GeoXPlanet on Windows, be aware that there are known issues!)

infra_red_dude: it does that until you connect to something. Try connecting to aol/msn/yahoo/whatever or surfing to a website while it's running and see if it spits out "Performing lookup on <ip address>" If it still doesn't, then something's wrong, and I'd like more info (if you could).

Thanks guys, for testing! Let me know if you have any other problems...

Edit - if you're having issues with plotting, please check to see if there's a file called "markerFile.txt" in your GeoXPlanet-<version> folder. If there IS, then look at the contents of it. If it contains something *other than* a line such as:

"32.447 -93.845 "Home" align=above color=0xffffff"

Then it's doing what it's supposed to (this project just generates the markerfile!). If it IS generating that file and it's still not plotting the points, then please set "titles=True" in GeoXPlanet.conf and make sure your XPlanet/XEarth is pointing at the GeoXPlanet-<version>/markerFile.txt markerfile. Until I write the code to allow for the marker file to reside *outside* of the GeoXPlanet directory, you'll have to use that location (usually $HOME/GeoXPlanet-<version>/markerFile.txt). Currently the project writes the markerfile to the GeoXPlanet directory!

I'll post more as the codebase evolves (particularly when you can place the markerfile wherever you want!)

[infra_red_dude]

oh stupid me!

it works like a charm, Jon!

[rocket357]

infra_red_dude: Is it plotting in XPlanet, too? Just curious...I want to make sure that part is working right...

Edit - the README is available on sourceforge now...

[infra_red_dude]

yeah, i'm using it on xplanet only. not xearth

[vish786]

How to use it.
installed both xplanet/xearth also.
command : geoplanet.py
error: command not found.

and i didnt see any windows related files in downloaded files, then how can it run in win

[mehulved]

In Installation section of README, I can't find anything about making the GeoXPlanet.py file as executable. And the file wasn't executable too. I extracted the tarball with

sudo tar xjpvf GeoXPlanet-0.3.1.tar.bz2

A small quirk but it may confuse new users.

[rocket357]

Originally Posted by vish786

How to use it.
installed both xplanet/xearth also.
command : geoplanet.py
error: command not found.

and i didnt see any windows related files in downloaded files, then how can it run in win

The project is coded in Python. You need to have Python installed for it to run (Python runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, etc...). If you do have Python installed the underlying OS doesn't matter (other than paths for finding file names, availability of certain tools outside of Python, a very few Python internals, etc...)

What you need to do is this:

If you're on Windows, download GeoXPlanet-0.3.1.zip, if you're on *nix, download the GeoXPlanet-0.3.1.tar.bz2. *These archives are EXACTLY the same files!!*, the zip is provided as a convenience for Windows users (WinZip/7zip/etc... can open tar.bz2 files, but some people don't know that). Once you download the archive of your choice, extract it to a directory of your choice (for Windows users, Desktop is probably best, since there is a compatibility issue with winXPlanetBG that's currently unresolved (I'll get to it this weekend, if I can)). Once you've extracted it, enter the directory where you extracted the project, and run "./GeoXPlanet.py" for *nix (Note the "X" in the name, and the capitalization!), and for Windows "python.exe GeoXPlanet.py" (assuming python.exe is on your PATH), though you might be able to type simply "GeoXPlanet.py". On my XP machine at work when I double click the GeoXPlanet.py file, it opens a command prompt and runs it. Perhaps I have a setting that needs to be outlined in the README?

Once the script is running, it should display "Performing lookup on <ip address>", but it's obviously only going to do that if you have active connections. I have a modification planned (implemented on my machine at home) that spits out a "Waiting for connections..." statement if no connections are found on the first pass, and that will be released soon with fixes for a few other issues.

By 0.4 I hope to have the Windows support working much better =\

Originally Posted by mehulved

In Installation section of README, I can't find anything about making the GeoXPlanet.py file as executable. And the file wasn't executable too. I extracted the tarball with

sudo tar xjpvf GeoXPlanet-0.3.1.tar.bz2

A small quirk but it may confuse new users.

ACK!

Thanks for pointing that out! If you're running GeoXPlanet on *nix, you need to run:

chmod 700 GeoXPlanet.py

and if you run gnome, you need to run:

chmod 700 gnome.sh

My apologies if this caused any confusion! This will be fixed in later releases...

EDIT -

GeoXPlanet-0.3.2 is out...

This release includes arcs, colors, and titling the points with the port numbers of the connections.

http://sourceforge.net/project/scree...roup_id=205209

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ downloading that... will check it out in sometime

[rocket357]

GeoXPlanet-0.3.3 has been released, and this is a major step forward! Now, the script launches xplanet/xearth automatically (so you don't have to figure out paths, configuration options, etc...) while allowing you to control xplanet/xearth via the GeoXPlanet.conf file. Also new in this release is port-number color coordination (for instance, all IM protocols are shown in teal, whereas http connections are shown in purple), and marker size can be changed via the config file. It's most likely broken on Windows for the time being, but I plan on having it working again within the next two days (at least by Tuesday!)

[infra_red_dude]

plotting the connections is perfect in xplanet! but few bugs in there.. i'm in bangalore, india. but it sayz my home's somewhere in Africa!!!

[rocket357]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

plotting the connections is perfect in xplanet! but few bugs in there.. i'm in bangalore, india. but it sayz my home's somewhere in Africa!!!

The home LAT/LONG need to be hardcoded (so you can modify it as you see fit) in the GeoXPlanet.conf file (Under "Display"). I set the defaults to (0, 0), which is somewhere off the western coast of Africa (near the ivory coast, I think?).

At any rate, I have a doc on sourceforge that covers the config file and all of the options that you can set for it...I haven't publicly announced that yet, but it's there. I've been unbelievably busy these past few days...

It's tough sometimes to view your own project like someone else would (because you're so familiar with the code and what it can/cannot do), so each time you guys point something out like this it *really* helps me. Thanks!

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by rocket357

The home LAT/LONG need to be hardcoded (so you can modify it as you see fit) in the GeoXPlanet.conf file (Under "Display"). I set the defaults to (0, 0), which is somewhere off the western coast of Africa (near the ivory coast, I think?).

At any rate, I have a doc on sourceforge that covers the config file and all of the options that you can set for it...I haven't publicly announced that yet, but it's there. I've been unbelievably busy these past few days...

i'll just check it out Jon

Originally Posted by rocket357

It's tough sometimes to view your own project like someone else would (because you're so familiar with the code and what it can/cannot do), so each time you guys point something out like this it *really* helps me. Thanks!

very true!

[mehulved]

README mentions of gnome.sh file. I don't see any such file in version 3.3
XPlanet is not showing up on my GNOME desktop.
Is this http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/FAQ.php#gnome2 used as gnome.sh?

[rocket357]

Originally Posted by mehulved

README mentions of gnome.sh file. I don't see any such file in version 3.3
XPlanet is not showing up on my GNOME desktop.
Is this http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/FAQ.php#gnome2 used as gnome.sh?

Yeah, that's the gnome.sh script (though I'd modified it somewhat). It shouldn't be required anymore, however, since the GeoXPlanet.py script should handle it. Do you get any error output if you launch the main script from a terminal? Look in the GeoXPlanet-0.3.3 directory and tell me if the script is generating two images (should be GeoXPlanet0.jpg and GeoXPlanet1.jpg). If those files exist after you run the script, then something is wrong with setting the background. If they don't exist, then something is going wrong during launching xplanet. Check to make sure you have gnome=True (under "General") and useXEarth=False (under "XPlanet") set in your GeoXPlanet.conf and post any errors you get here.

Just out of curiousity, has anyone tried out setting up the MaxMind database? I'd like to know if the README is clear enough on that...

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by rocket357

Yeah, that's the gnome.sh script. It shouldn't be required anymore, however, since the GeoXPlanet.py script should handle it.

I don't see XPlanet/XEarth on my desktop. Surely a problem with XPlanet/XEarth, not the project.

Originally Posted by rocket357

Do you get any error output if you launch the main script from a terminal?

Nope.

Originally Posted by rocket357

Look in the GeoXPlanet-0.3.3 directory and tell me if the script is generating two images (should be GeoXPlanet0.jpg and GeoXPlanet1.jpg).

Yes they're there.

Originally Posted by rocket357

If those files exist after you run the script, then something is wrong with setting the background.
If they don't exist, then something is going wrong during launching xplanet.

Yeah background is still the same, XEarth/XPlanet don't appear.

Originally Posted by rocket357

Check to make sure you have gnome=True (under "General") and useXEarth=False (under "XPlanet") set in your GeoXPlanet.conf and post any errors you get here.

That's fine

[rocket357]

mehulved,

Can you launch xplanet manually? Try running this:

xplanet -arc_file /path/to/GeoXPlanet/arcs.txt -marker_file /path/to/GeoXPlanet/markerFile.txt -longitude 0 -latitude 0 \
-projection mercator -config /path/to/GeoXPlanet/xplanet.conf.example -geometry 1280x1024 -wait 15.0 &

and tell me what it outputs...

EDIT -

GeoXPlanet-0.3.4 is out. This release fixes a bug in which GeoXPlanet would "hang" on non-gnome systems, and adds automated localhost ip lookup, a statement to inform the user that the code has entered a waiting state (waiting for initial connections), and a check system to prevent multiple xplanet instances running simultaneously.