Paul Jarc's software

prj@case.edu

Pretty much everything here is useful only on Unix-style systems.

Software packages

These are licensed under the GPL, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea for you to distribute modified versions. I'd like to know if you plan to do that.

• fdtools is a set of utilities for working with file descriptors.
• guile-ldap is an extension for GNU Guile providing bindings to the OpenLDAP client library.
• idtools is a set of utilities for working with user and group IDs and other process parameters.
• mkmed automatically generates package build scripts.
• posterity is set of servers for publishing email archives.
• prjlibs is set of general-purpose libraries for C, sh, and Scheme.
• runwhen is a set of utilities for running commands at particular times.
• spftools is a set of utilities for managing foreign slashpackage installations.
• sptools is a set of utilities for managing slashpackage installations.
• svclean lets you run daemontools with clean shutdown, and with supervised logging of svscan's and supervise's output.

System configuration

Together, these three sections define almost all of the organization of my systems.

• The /fs hierarchy: how I organize my filesystems
• Running svscan as process 1: how I manage booting and shutdown
• The slashpackage-foreign system: how I manage package installation

Documentation

• Slashpackage takes the form of a package management system, but it's really about preventing wasted effort from incompatibilities in naming introduced downstream.
• Kart is an associative array structure based on Patricia.
• Sets of SQL rows are tricky to define purely in data, but it can be done.
• lintsh may become an sh interpreter that optionally warns about suspicious or nonportable constructs. For now, it's a list of constructs that would be warned about.
• An introduction to DNS.

Add-ons, patches, etc.

• qmail/mess822
• nnmaildir - a maildir backend for Gnus.
• Gnus
• djbdns
• clockspeed
• daemontools
• shttpd
• ptyget

Public mailing lists

The following mailing lists are open to the public. So information posted to them is not kept secret - X-No-Archive header fields are ignored, email addresses in message headers are revealed, etc. Currently, you can access them in two ways:

• ezmlm: to subscribe, send an empty message to listname-subscribe@lists.dogmap.org, substituting the appropriate list name. For help, send a message to listname-help@lists.dogmap.org.

In the future, I plan to add IMAP (and possibly HTTP) access, and eventually remove ezmlm. The lists are:

• prjware-announce (announcement-only): for announcements of new releases of my software, etc.
• prjware (unmoderated): for general discussion of my software, configurations, etc., not covered by more specific lists. Announcements are not copied here; read the prjware-announce list if you want them.
• spf (unmoderated): for discussion of the slashpackage-foreign project.
• mkmed (unmoderated): for discussion of the mkmed build system.

Hardware

I've described some of my experiences with computer hardware.

Quick hacks

The source is the documentation. You get what you pay for.

• A Guile Scheme script for generating index.html pages.
• A Python script for generating index.html pages.
• A Perl script for adjusting UCSPI environment variables to meet the expectations of programs that assume a particular UCSPI protocol.
• A Perl script that synchronizes maildir message name flags with Gnus marks.

Tip jar

If I've helped you, and if you're feeling generous, you can: