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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

phpautotest is a tool for conducting automated regression tests on PHP-driven Web sites. Variable values as well as HTTP output can be tested.

HTTP output is tested using regular expressions.

Open RObot COntrol Software (Orocos) framework applies software patterns in C++ to achieve real-time execution of software components and provides an infrastructure to quickly integrate them in a real-time operating system such as RTAI or RTLinux, although it can be tested on normal Linux systems.
The Orocos project started as a Free Software project for robotics, but it has outgrown its robotics-dependent roots. Hence, "Orocos" now consists of two decoupled but integrated sub-projects:
Open Realtime Control Services.
This is a hard realtime Software Framework for all possible machine control applications, fully independent of the projects original robotics focus. It is designed to run safely parallel user defined tasks, on both vanilla Linux 2.6 and hard realtime RTAI. Extensive graphical configuration support is available.
Available features: hardware abstraction, operating system abstraction, event handling, hierarchical and parallel state machines, realtime "PLC" scripting, command parsing, online property configuration, multiple time- and event-triggered threads, advanced data protection for synchronous/asynchronous data flow, strongly typed data flow, (on-line) configuration support, ...
Integration between RTAI and TAO and ACE is also part of the ongoing work towards a hard realtime distributed control infastructure based on CORBA.
Open Robot Control Software.
A set of class libraries and an application framework offering generic functionality for machine tools and robots: cascaded control loops and control components, motion generation and interpolation; kinematics and dynamics; robot-specific control algorithms; estimation and identification; etc.
The following families of applications have working implementations available: force-controlled 6R manipulator arm and Cartesian XYZ machine tools. We would welcome developers to start mobile robot and humanoid robot application(s). In those efforts, much of the material of the above-mentioned applications can be reused. In addition, detailed support is available through the Developers mailing list. So, each new application requires moderate programming effort. (Not taking into account system-dependent modules such as device drivers, or kinematic routines.)
Open RObot COntrol Software is designed to appeal to roboticists. See the Orocos project homepage for an automated download script.
Enhancements:
- Support for RTAI 3.4 and 3.5 was improved.
- Various fixes were made in the CORBA support layer.
- The example code and documentation had a review.

Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture (AQuoSA) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for supporting soft real-time applications with facilities related to timing guarantees and QoS, on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux.
At the core of the architecture there is an adaptive resource reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on their run-time requirements.
Timing guarantees are provided through an in-kernel reservation based process scheduler, whose services are exposed to applications through a well-designed API.
A supervisor performs admission control, so that admitting into the system new applications with timing guarantees does not affect the timing guarantees of already admitted applications. Also, it takes care of guaranteeing appropriate security policies in the assignment of timing guarantees to users and user groups, as configured by the system administrator.
A feedback-based QoS control layer may be optionally used by applications who want to keep their timing guarantees by using a CPU allocation that is continuously adapted according to their actual needs. This leaverages the programmer, within certain limits, to hard-code any particular reservation amount within the application, because the best allocation is found out automatically at run-time. Also, this enhances the possibilities for the system to host additional QoS controlled applications. The available control algorithms are well founded on formal scheduling models and control theoretical results.
Enhancements:
- This release introduces a couple of flags useful when creating servers. If QOS_F_PERSISTENT is enabled, a server is allowed to exist beyond detach of the last task. If QOS_F_SOFT is enabled, a server tasks are scheduled by the Linux default scheduler/policy, when outside of the server reservation.
- Also, various stability issues in destroying servers have been fixed, also thanks to a new release of the generic scheduler patch for the Linux kernel (gs-2.2).

Dial-Up Bot project aims to be a fully functional automated replacement for the /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d hierarchy. Its supposed to be started by cron at night. It cant satisfy the requirements of impatient roots. Its not designed for hosts with a permanent Internet connection.
Enhancements:
- This is the first public release since dubot reached minimal useful functionality and stability. Installation mech is minimally stable (at least for install in /usr/local hierarchy).

Balmail project is a small Perl script which sends an automated daily work report to your boss via e-mail.

balmail will email a daily report to your boss (or team leader) satisfying their need to quantify your daily technical acheivements. It can be customised to fit your typical list of one line tasks, and will automatically decide which you have done and how many each day.

Care has been taken to ensure that the e-mail does not appear to be automated, by varying the time the mail gets sent, the subject lines and the content each day.

A holiday feature ensures mail doesnt get sent whilst you are away.