Peter Poeml
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Involved Projects and Packages
psycopg2 is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. psycopg2 was written with the aim of being very small and fast,
and stable as a rock.
psycopg2 is different from the other database adapter because it was
designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy
lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or
UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provide full asycronous operations and support
for coroutine libraries.
pyinotify is a Python module for watching filesystems changes. By its design
pyinotify can be used for any kind of fs monitoring.
pyinotify relies on a recent Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13)
called inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are
exported from kernel space to user space. The raw interface of inotify is
compounded of three system calls. pyinotify binds these system calls and
provides an implementation on top of them offering a generic and abstract way
to use inotify with Python. Pyinotify doesn't requires much detailed knowledge
of inotify. Moreover, it only needs few statements for initializing, watching,
handling (eventually trough a new separate thread), and processing events
notifications through subclassing. The only things to know is the path of items
to watch, the kind of events to monitor and the actions to execute on these
notifications.
Note: pyinotify requires Python 2.3 and above, and Linux 2.6.13 at least.
pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows
accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.3 or
higher. It also solves the issue of ambiguous times at the end of
daylight savings, which you can read more about in the Python Library
Reference (datetime.tzinfo).
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a
network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory,
but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that
target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.
The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental
backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev
files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also,
rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe,
like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a
hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be
transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have
sensical defaults.
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.
Squid 3.2 represents a new feature release above 3.1.
The most important of these new features are:
* CVE-2009-0801 : NAT interception vulnerability to malicious clients.
* NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits
* SMP scalability
* Helper Multiplexer and On-Demand
* Helper Name Changes
* Multi-Lingual manuals
* Solaris 10 pthreads Support
* Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP
* Logging Infrastructure Updated
* Client Bandwidth Limits
* Better eCAP support
* Cache Manager access changes
First STABLE release Date: 02 Aug 2010
Latest Release: 3.2.2
Latest Release Date: 05 Oct 2012
Squidview is an interactive console program which monitors
and displays squid logs in a nice fashion, and may then go
deeper with searching and reporting functions.
If you don't know what squid is or does this program is probably not for you.
To use squidview you must at least have read access to squid's
access.log file. You may need to see your administrator for this.
Squidview uses this text log file for all operations.
It does not generate its own database for tasks
This project aims at providing stunnel packages.
The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper
between a remote client and the local (inetd-startable) or remote
server. The concept is that by having non-SSL aware daemons running on
your system, you can easily set them to communicate with clients over a
secure SSL channel. Stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to
commonly used inetd daemons, such as POP-2, POP-3, and IMAP servers,
without any changes to the program code.
innotop connects to a MySQL database server and retrieves information from it,
then displays it in a manner similar to the UNIX top program. innotop uses
the data from SHOW VARIABLES, SHOW GLOBAL STATUS, SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST, and
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, among other things.
ip4 and ip4r are types that contain a single IPv4 address and a range of
IPv4 addresses respectively. They can be used as a more flexible,
indexable version of the cidr type.
cronolog is a simple filter program that reads log file entries from standard input and writes each entry to the output file specified by a filename template and the current date and time. When the expanded filename changes, the current file is closed and a new one opened. cronolog is intended to be used in conjunction with a Web server, such as Apache, to split the access log into daily or monthly logs.
See http://cronolog.org/ for more info.
postfix, exim and the rest that drives email on the net.
Exim is a mail transport agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is
freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In
style, it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more extensive.
In particular, it has options for verifying incoming sender and
recipient addresses, for refusing mail from specified hosts, networks,
or senders, and for controlling mail relaying.
Exim is a mail transport agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is
freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In
style, it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more extensive.
In particular, it has options for verifying incoming sender and
recipient addresses, for refusing mail from specified hosts, networks,
or senders, and for controlling mail relaying.
This particular exim package is built with mysql support.
Authors:
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Philip Hazel
PostgreSQL-enabled variant of the server:mail exim package.
This daemon provides a simple greylisting implementation for use with Exim and other mail transport agents (MTAs). For an
introduction to greylisting, please refer to Evan Harris' whitepaper at:
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/
In essense, greylisting is a simple but highly effective means to weed out messages that are being delivered via spamware/
ratware tools. The idea is to establish whether a prior relationship exists between the sender and the receiver of a message.
Most of the time it does, and the delivery proceeds normally.
On the other hand, if no prior relationship exists, the delivery is temporariliy rejected (using a 451 SMTP response).
Legitimate MTAs will treat this response accordingly, and retry the delivery in a little while. In contrast, ratware will often
try to hammer on your server repeatedly within a short period of time (i.e. seconds), and/or simply give up and move on to the
next target in its address list.
The package contains a sample configuration snippet for use with Exim 4.
Authors:
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Tor Slettnes
maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop reads a
mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to your mailbox.
maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style mailboxes, and maildirs.
"maildir" is a mailbox format used by Courier and Qmail.
maildrop optionally reads instructions from a file, which describe how to
filter incoming mail. These instructions can direct maildrop to deliver the
message to an alternate mailbox, or forward it somewhere else. Unlike procmail,
maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail. However,
Authors:
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Sam Varshavchik
Unlike most monitoring tools that either focus on a small set of
statistics, format their output in only one way, run either
interatively or as a daemon but not both, collectl tries to do it all.
Ampache is a PHP-based tool for managing, updating, and playing your
MP3 files via a Web interface. It allows you to save play lists, create
user accounts, and share your music catalogs with other Ampache
servers. It uses a MySQL database.
Read the README files about configuring ampache.
This project contains PHP extensions that are not part of the PHP distribution.
It will transparently proxy your ftp clients (duh). This means that any
clients you have that are behind the proxy will believe that they are
connecting to an ftp server as normal, but will actually be connecting
to frox. Frox will do the onward connection to the remote server.
It can also be set up to do non-transparent proxying. In this case the
ftp client can connect directly to frox, but instead of logging in with
``username'' should log in with ``username@ftp.wherever.org''.
On either of these sorts of connections it can do caching of files you
download, or converting of data connections from active-->passive which
can make firewalling rules a lot easier/safer. There is also basic
support for running a virus scanner on downloaded files.
See http://frox.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
Routing related software
This project provides various shells, like zsh and others. It also serves as development project for packages around the topic of shells in the openSUSE:Factory distribution. If you want to participate you can contact us individually. Please report bugs to the respective bugowners as set.
