Free fetches software for linux

Fetch and deliver mail is a simple, lightweight replacement for mail fetching, filtering, and delivery programs such as fetchmail and procmail.
It can fetch using POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS, or stdin, and deliver to a pipe, file, maildir, mbox, or SMTP server, based on a set of regexps.
Fetch and deliver mail can be used for both single user and multiuser setups, and is designed with privilege separation when running as root.
Enhancements:
- Mostly configuration file enhancements and code cleanup were done since 1.2. ifdef/endif blocks and inline shell commands are allowed in the configuration file.
- A built-in string cache using TDB was added.
- Some extra default tags were added. NNTPS fetching was implemented.

bbweather is a tool which displays the current weather conditions in an decorated window, simulating the look of the Blackbox toolbar (Blackbox is a Windowmanager for X11). bbweather is heavily based on "bbdate" by John Kennis.

Furthermore, bbweather was inspired by wmWeather by Michael G. Henderson, from where I grabbed the perl-script that fetches the weather-conditions from your local station.

dkftpbench application is an FTP benchmark program inspired by SPECweb99. The result of the benchmark is a number-of-simultaneous-users rating; after running the benchmark properly, you have a good idea how many simultaneous dialup clients a server can support. The target bandwidth per client is set at 28.8 kilobits/second to model dialup users; this is important for servers on the real Internet, which often serve thousands of clients on only 10 MBits/sec of bandwidth.
The final result of the benchmark is "the number of simultaneous 28.8 kilobits/second dialup users". To estimate this number, the benchmark starts up a new simulated user as soon as the last one has finished connecting. It stops increasing the number of users when one fails to connect, fails to maintain the desired bandwidth, or the limit specified by the -n option is reached. It runs the simulated users until the amount of time specified by the -t option has elapsed since the last simulated user birth or death; the final score is the number of users still alive at the end.
Main features:
- Compiles and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris (or did, last I tried)
- fetches many files in parallel
- waits for each connect to finish (and then a bit) before starting next one; slows down to < 1 connect/second when it reaches 75% of desired number of users. This spreads out user activity more evenly.
- checks bandwidth continuously during each file fetch, stops adding users if any fetch too slow
- throttles each fetch to use only the specified bandwidth
- search for the max number of supported users
- Displays verbose error message when any user fails
- Aborts if it detects the client system running out of resources
- Aborts if connecting to the server takes > 5 seconds
- Aborts if it takes longer than 5 seconds to get first packet of a file
- Uses new Poller class for scalability; you can specify which Poller to use on the commandline
- Supports slow datarates (before, it only handles rates above 80kbits/sec on some systems)
- Lets you set how picky it is about datarates (before, its must be faster than threshold was fixed at 3/4 the target bandwidth)
- Supports alternative readiness notification methods like O_ASYNC and O_ONESIGFD
- Provided both as a standalone executable, and as a Corba object. (Thanks to http://corbaconf.kiev.ua/ for the Corba autoconf macros.
- Switches to BINARY mode after login. (The client API lets you choose; edit robouser.cc to skip the START_TYPE state if you want to use ASCII.)
Example:
After unpacking the sources, configure them for your system with the command
./configure
This will generate Makefile from Makefile.in.
To make sure the sources arrived intact and work properly on your system, type
make check
It will build all unit tests, and fail if any unit test fails. You must be connected to the Internet, as this will try to download a file from ftp.uu.net.
To build the system tuning tool dklimits, type
make dklimits
Run it on both the client and the server machine; make sure that the number of files it can open is about three times the desired number of users, and that the number of ports it can bind is higher than the desired number of users. You should not be running X Windows or any other programs on the client and server machines when running the benchmark.
To build the benchmark, type
make
This produces the executable dkftpbench, the tuning program dklimits, and a bunch of unit tests (executables with names ending in _test) that you can ignore for now.
Heres a simple use of dkftpbench:
./dkftpbench -n1 -hftp.uu.net -t15 -v
This tells bench to simulate one user fetching the default file from ftp.uu.net repeatedly, and stop after fifteen seconds. The program produces this output:
Option values:
-hftp.uu.net host name of ftp server
-P21 port number of ftp server
-n1 number of users
-t15 length of run (in seconds)
-b3600 desired bandwidth (in bytes per second)
-uanonymous user name
-probouser@ user password
-fusenet/rec.juggling/juggling.FAQ.Z file to fetch
-m1500 bytes per packet
-v1 verbosity
1 users
User0: fetching 22708 bytes took 6.530000 seconds, 3477 bytes per second
User0: fetching 22708 bytes took 6.530000 seconds, 3477 bytes per second
Test over. 1 users left standing.

camwatch is a very lightweight program for Unix / X Windows that fetches, displays, and optionally archives pictures from webcams.
It requires recent versions of imlib (not imlib2) and libcurl. I develop it under Red Hat Linux. I havent intentionally put anything Linux-specific into it, but I dont test it anywhere else, and Im not intimately familiar with the subtle differences between libcs and such, so YMMV.
camwatch works for me but poorly. It will probably work even worse for you. Let me know.
camwatch was originally written by cblack, but his website has disappeared and his last known email address bounces. So, Ive appropriated the project; if anyone knows this cblack and want to direct me to him, Id love to get in touch and see if he wants it back or wants to pass it to me more formally.
There are big future plans for camwatch, but I tend to do things in fits and spurts, so I finally decided to call my hackings version 0.1 and release it, so here it is. Update: Another fit and spurt; version 0.2 exists now.
Enhancements:
- Fixed broken -s flag for selecting archive dir
- Fixed bug where window was showing image previous to current
- Made s keystroke save current image without forcing reload
- Made window auto-resize to the actual size of fetched image
- Added verify_image; currently only checks that filesize != 0
- Added version and filename to window title

Cisco IP Accounting Fetcher is a set of Perl scripts that allows you to fetch IP accounting data from Cisco routers. There is the only one config file - "getdata.conf for configuration.
Main features:
- fetch accounting data from the router
- generate the HTML statistics

Sethi Yahoo News Grabber is a small script used for fetching news from Yahoo.

Quick and dirty routine to get Yahoo news

Should save result to a text file and then SSI the sucker where you want

Yet Another Autoresponder (yaa) is an email (vacation) autoresponder that is able to fetch autoresponse data from various sources, using separate plugins for each source type.
Yes, i wrote yet another mail autoresponder daemon. Why? Becouse i was looking for mail autoresponder daemon, which would be easily extendable and would work with Postfix virtual delivery daemon virtual(8). Unfortunatly i was not able to find something like that on the internet, thats why I wrote it in Perl.
Main features:
- Fetches autoresponder data (subject, message, etc...) using plugins
- Currently developed plugins: SQL, LDAP, DB_File, BerkeleyDB, PCRE, STATIC
- It can forward entire original message to the per-recipient custom tunable email address
- Doesnt respond to mailing list posts and posts, that could couse autoresponder deadlock.
- Autoresponse messages can be in any charset.
- Single, all-in-one configuration file
- Can act as SMTP or LMTP server in daemon mode