User:Robert

Robert Scheck

Hello, my name is Robert Scheck. Some of the Red Hat people and Fedora contributors maybe know me from my Bugzilla reports after updating my development system to Fedora Rawhide. Personally, I'm now 22 years old and of course, I've got also non-technical hobbies like meeting my friends, reading exciting books, playing billiard, swimming or just listen music.

Professionally, I'm a programmer at Linux and ERP environments working for a young and tiny IT company called ETES GmbH. Some time before I did my apprenticeship to IT specialist field systems integration at Hewlett-Packard Germany as result of my personal interest in computers started in December 1998. And in July 2004, I did my certification as Red Hat Certified Technician - during my apprenticeship, but paid by me! ;-)

Below you'll find a list of Open Source Projects I was involved in the past. At the end of this page, there are Fedora and EPEL packages listed I'm maintaining or co-maintaining since I got sponsored by Hans de Goede in June 2006. In March 2007, I got Fedora Ambassador with the initial goal to support the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany. I'm also part of the Fedora Websites Team for translating the content of the Fedora websites into German. Currently I'm maintaining the German static websites of fedoraproject.org on my domain www.fedora.de .

Some information

• E-Mail: robert AT linuxnetz DOT de
• Websites: www.robert-scheck.de, www.linuxnetz.de & www.fedora.de
• Location: Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Time zone: UTC +01:00 (CET) or UTC +02:00 CEST
• Languages: German, English
• GPG key : 0xCE3E1F56

IRC and Instant Messaging

• Freenode: #fedora-devel, #fedora-de and #rpm channels with nickname rsc
• IRCnet: #fedora.de, #redhat.de, #linux.de and #linuxger channels with nickname rsc_
• Jabber: rsc AT jabber DOT org

Area of Interest

I've got an own 1U rack server housed in Frankfurt/Germany, which is my "remote desktop", working and development system. So there are an Apache web server (httpd), FTP server (vsftpd), OpenSSH (sshd), mail services (Sendmail, MIMEDefang & UW IMAP), Network Time Protocol synchronisation (ntpd) and SELinux, too.

As the machine is a HP ProLiant DL360 G3 server, lm_sensors unfortunately doesn't support (yet?) the used ServerWorks GC-LE chipset, which is the reason, that I've got to merge and integrate needed things myself from the closed source HP Advanced Server Management. But there's still hope for me, because a working patch supporting HP SmartArrays in smartmontools was finished in April 2006 - finally after a very long time.

For monitoring the system, I'm using HotSaNIC. It is completely written in Perl and I wrote an own module to get the temperature and fan information from the non-standardized HP software. Another important point (or interest) is SELinux which had to be modified in the past a couple of times for example to support the very useful pam_abl.

The textbased e-mail client mutt(1), an IRC to other chat networks gateway called BitlBee together with the terminal based IRC client Irssi and screen(1) are completely fulfilling my need of "remote desktop" as already mentioned above. It's enough for me to read or write an e-mail (or even an instant message) from everywhere in the world and just requiring a SSH client at a computer...

Fedora Events and Fedora Ambassador

• FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin/Germany during the LinuxTag 2008
• LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin/Germany as ambassador to support the booth
• Fedora Ambassador Day LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin/Germany
• Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2008 in Chemnitz/Germany as ambassador
• FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels/Belgium as ambassador and visitor
• LinuxTag 2008 Preparation Meeting in Rheinfelden/Germany
• Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA 2007 in Rheinfelden/Germany
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany during the LinuxTag 2007
• LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany as ambassador to support the booth
• Fedora Ambassador Day LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany
• LinuxTag 2007 Preparation Meeting in Karlsruhe/Germany
• FUDCon II in Karlsruhe/Germany during the LinuxTag 2005

Open Source Projects

• rpm2python - Web-based tool similar to rpm2html
• mod_auth_useragent2 - Unsafe authentication using the User-Agent
• ntpdate - Small replacement for the ISC NTP ntpdate
• sip-redirect - Tiny IPv4 and IPv6 SIP redirect server
• elem - Periodic table of the elements
• rpm - The RPM Package Manager
• jwhois - Jonas' Internet whois and nicname client

Fedora and EPEL Packages

I'm maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
{o} I'm co-maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
This package is under review and will be imported to this branch
{X} Package can't be imported to this branch for different reasons

Please notice, that only active branches are listed below. The Fedora Package Database also contains the inactive and retired branches, which are out of date:

Package	Description	EL-4	EL-5	F-7	F-8	devel
php-idn	PHP API for GNU LibIDN
php-magickwand	PHP API for Image Magick	{X}
tcpick	TCP stream sniffer, tracker and capturer
eggdrop	World's most popular Open Source IRC bot
perl-Net-LibIDN	Perl bindings for GNU LibIDN
mimedefang	E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter interface	{X}
librsync	Rsync libraries
bitlbee	IRC to other chat networks gateway
duplicity	Untrusted/encrypted backup using rsync algorithm
libopm	Blitzed open proxy monitor library
digitemp	Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
mksh	MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
popt	C library for parsing command line parameters	{X}	{X}	{X}
beldi	Belug Linux Distribution Burner	{X}	{X}
perl-Razor-Agent	Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages
lzop	Real-time file compressor			{o}	{o}	{o}
arj	Archiver for .arj files			{o}	{o}	{o}
nomarch	GPLed Arc de-archiver			{o}	{o}	{o}
freeze	Freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities			{o}	{o}	{o}
perl-Convert-UUlib	Perl interface to the uulib library			{o}	{o}	{o}
iftop	Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
pexpect	Pure Python Expect-like module
python-GnuPGInterface	A Python module to interface with GnuPG
python-boto	A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
phpMyAdmin	Web based MySQL browser written in PHP	{o}	{o}	{o}	{o}	{o}
libnids	Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System
dsniff	Tools for network auditing and penetration testing
gkrellm-top	GKrellM plugin which shows 3 most CPU intensive processes	{X}
perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI	Speed up perl scripts by running them persistently
ddclient	Client to update dynamic DNS host entries			{o}	{o}	{o}
perl-ccom	Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement
unicap	Library to access different kinds of (video) capture devices	{X}
beecrypt	An open source cryptography library	{X}	{X}
bind-libbind	Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) libbind resolver libraries		{X}	{X}	{X}	{X}
sip-redirect	Tiny IPv4 and IPv6 SIP redirect server written in Perl
ucview	Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit	{X}
gnokii	Linux/Unix tool suite for various mobile phones	{X}		{o}	{o}	{o}