collie-0.15.tar.bz2

This release includes some bug fixes and a new feature.

• New grace option for pan2 scheduler.  This allows tags time to finish before being killed when the allstop flag is used.  A how-to is available.
• Remove active.h2 files when a pan2 herd finishes.
• Do better at cleaning up file descriptors
• Fix some hangs in child handling.

qarsh-1.25.tar.bz2

This release includes a few new features and a few bug fixes.

• Handle growing files better in qacp.  You can now copy /var/log/messages without getting an error.
• Add a quiet option to btimec.
• Only look up the local user when the remote user is not specified.
• Add an SE Linux policy for qarsh. This work was done by Jaroslav Kortus and allows qarsh work with SE Linux enabled. It allows us to get into the right context when we start daemons remotely.

If anyone wants to sponsor me, I’ll take over maintaining the package.  I know Jima has wanted me to do that for a while.

My workstation is a Dell Precision Workstation 470 with the stock nVidia Quadro and two Dell 1905 FP connected via DVI.  I’m running Fedora 11 with the nouveau driver and I’m really happy with it.  But I can’t escape this feeling that I could be getting a better experience with a newer video card.  I think I want an ATI Radeon card, but the last graphics card I purchased was an nVidia TNT2.

Recommendations?

  87599107-java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0
  97552966-glibc-common-2.10.1
 100008386-git-1.6.2.5
 106080469-java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.11
 112425640-texlive-texmf-fonts-2007
 227731461-openoffice.org-core-3.1.0

While I’m not surprised the openoffice.org and java take up huge amounts of disk space, I was amazed that git does.  After all, most of git is hard linked to /usr/bin/git.  I whipped up a quick awk script to add based on unique inodes.

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN { s = 0; lasti = 0 }
{ if ( lasti != $1 ) { s += $6; lasti = $1 } }
END { print s }

Then ran it on git like so:

[nstraz@tin ~]$ rpm -ql git | xargs ls -lid | sort -n | ./countsize.awk
15956998

Roughly 16MB vs 100MB.  That makes more sense.

Gxpp is a grep-like utility for XML documents.  It uses XPath expressions instead of regular expressions to query sections of XML documents.  It provides most of the standard grep command line options.

gxpp-1.1.tar.bz2

qarsh-1.24.tar.bz2

This release includes several bug fixes.

• Fix a hard to hit hang after a command completes
• Add proper return codes to btimec
• Extend the amount of time btime waits for a response
• Force IPv4 on btimed
• Fix segfaults in qacp

The new feature is the ability to set environment variables in herds.  There’s a new How-To describing how to use this feature. In combination with XIncludes, you can reduce the size of those really repetitive herd files.