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Software

VzUbcMon

A simple monitor to regularly check for UBC failcount changes in OpenVZ/Virtuozzo containers. It's designed to run as a cronjob to mail the report to the admin if there are any changes.

The source code for download can be found at https://github.com/eht16/vzubcmon.

PyWsdlGen

PyWsdlGen is a little tool to generate a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file from Python source files. It parses a given Python source file and reads all public methods defined in this file to generate a WSDL file to be used for example for SOAP services implemented in Python.

For more information please, check out the GIT repository, available at http://repo.or.cz/w/pywsdlgen.git.

Build GIT version of Xfce4

This is a little build script for Xfce4 to fetch and compile the sources from GIT (master). Short instructions:

You should start with an empty directory, where you put this script. Edit the script and modify the list of packages or modules, you want to install.

Then run the script with:

./xfce4-build.sh init

this fetches the sources from the Xfce GIT server and:

./xfce4-build.sh build

configures, builds and installs the sources. For more information read the script (it's really simple). The script can be downloaded at http://files.uvena.de/xfce4-build.sh.

About distribution bugtrackers, delays and rays of hope

We all know the fancy bugtrackers of the various distributions. I don't have a doubt the idea behind was good and for distribution specific bugs they are great.

But when it comes to concrete application specific bugs, it often happens that users report them to the distribution bugtrackers instead of to the specific software project. At this point, it depends how deep is the relation between the distribution packager of the relevant software package and the upstream authors.

Based on my personal experience, the conversation between down- and upstream is not always as good and intensive as it should ...

Vomak

Vomak is a very simple IRC bot with a few basic features. It connects to an IRC server and joins a channel. Then it waits for commands like ?? keyword. This is a built-in help system. Additionally, the bot creates a socket (Unix Domain Socket) where it accepts directly IRC messages and a few special commands, see Socket Communication.

More information and the source code for download can be found at http://www.uvena.de/vomak/.

Note

Vomak is dead. Please don't use it anymore or drop me a mail if you want to continue developing it.

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