Free automated software for linux

NACE is a generic query engine used to automatically create host and service definitions for hosts on the network.

It is intended to be used in a shell script at regular intervals by an experienced Nagios administrator to perform a query against the supplied host list. It then creates host and service definitions using the parameters supplied in the query.

Aargh is a code generator, written in C++ and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It generates C++ code to parse a command line, using the getopt() facility available in UNIX and UNIX-like environments.
Automated Argument Helper project supports command-line options with integer arguments, string arguments, and no arguments. The generated code is commented and carefully indented for readability.
Its nice to have lots of command line options, but its a real pain to code for them.
Not that its difficult. Its just tedious, time-consuming, error prone, and no fun. I used to wince at the thought of adding command line options.
Not any more. All I have to do is define the options I want in a small XML file, and run it through aargh. Instantly I have C++ source code that I can compile and link into my program.
If I need to add another option, or otherwise change the rules, I can edit the XML and regenerate the code. No muss, no fuss. Now I can spend more time on the interesting parts of the project.
To use aargh, write an XML file to describe the options you want. When aargh reads the file, it generates two C++ files.
One file is a header that declares a class to represent the options. By default this class is named "Opts," but you can specify a different name. The other file is the implementation of Opts, or whatever you decide to call it. The Opts class provides member functions to parse the command line and return the results.
In your own code, declare an instance of Opts and call Opts::get() to parse the command line, passing it the argc and argv arguments from main(). Opts::get() returns zero if the command line follows the rules that you have outlined in the XML file, or non-zero otherwise. If the parsing is successful, the Opts object stores the results and makes them available to your program by a series of accessor functions.
Main features:
- You can enforce upper and/or lower limits on the number of non-option arguments.
- You can distinguish between options that take arguments and those that dont.
- You can specify that an option is required.
- You can require that the argument to an option be a non-negative integer.
- For an integer argument you can enforce upper and/or lower limits.
- For a string argument you can enforce upper and/or lower limits on the string length.
- For a string argument you can call a function of your own to validate the argument.
- You can allow multiple occurrences of the same option. In that case the generated code builds an STL vector to hold the arguments. By default the generated software allows only one occurrence of any given option.
Enhancements:
- You can now specify the location of the generated header file independently of its name.
- This feature may make it easier to incorporate aargh into complex build environments.

Njudge is an automated judge for Diplomacy games, based on Ken Lowe software.
Installation:
1. Create a system user account (i.e. judge) and its home directory
(i.e. /home/judge) It is recommended to lock the password for this
account as you should never need to login as this user.
2. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type
`./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre
using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type
`sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute
`configure itself.
By default it will set up the judge in /home/judge as user judge with
an email address of judge@localhost and sendmail in /usr/sbin.
If you chose a different user and directory in step 1, or if judge
email should come from a different domain, you can give the configure
script flags to override the defaults. The flags are:
--with-dir=DIR
--with-user=NAME
--with-domain=DOMAIN
--with-sendmail=SENDMAIL
for example to set up the judge in /home/jaldhar/dip as user
jaldhar and email judge@braincells.com and sendmail in /usr/ucb, you
would do:
./configure --with-dir=/home/jaldhar/dip --with-user=jaldhar --with-domain=braincells.com --with-sendmail=/usr/ucb
There are many other flags you can give (type ./configure --help
for a full list) but these are the main ones youre likely to use.
Running `configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some
messages telling which features it is checking for.
3. Type `make to compile the package.
4. If this is a new install:
Type `make install to install the programs, any data files and
documentation. You will have to edit a few configuration files
before the judge will become operation.
If this is an upgrade from an older version;
Type make upgrade to install the new programs only.
*Note* compiled programs will not be stripped of debug and other extra
information. If you want to make compiled programs a little smaller,
you can type make install-strip or make upgrade-strip instead. This
may give a few harmless errors (when it tries to strip scripts) but you
can ignore them.
If you just want to rebuild the map files (because e.g. you added a new
variant,) type make remap.
5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the
files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for
a different kind of computer), type `make distclean.
Enhancements:
- Major bugfixes

WWW::OpenSVN is an automated interface for the OpenSVN online Subversion repositories service. At the moment it allows one to backup the dumps of ones repositories.

eBayAgent aims to help users who are bidding in an eBay auction by giving them an automated way of bidding in the dying moments of an auction.

KlamAV provides ClamAV protection for the KDE desktop. KlamAV includes on access scanning, manual scanning, quarantine management, downloading of updates, mail scanning, and automated installation.
Main features:
- On Access Scanning
- Manual Scanning
- Quarantine Management
- Downloading Updates
- Mail Scanning (KMail/Evolution)
- Automated Installation
- Dazuko pre-package
Enhancements:
- Make compatible with ClamAV 0.90