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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


IRC and Instant Messaging

  • Freenode : #fedora-devel and #rpm channels as Nick:rsc
  • IRCNet : #fedora.de, #fedora, #redhat, #linux.de and #linuxger channels as Nick:rsc_
  • Jabber : [[MailTo(rsc AT SPAMFREE 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


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

Important.png I'm maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
{o} I'm co-maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
Idea.png 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:

<tablewidth="100%"#8080FF cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> Package <#8080FF> Description <#8080FF> EL-4 <#8080FF> EL-5 <#8080FF> F-7 <#8080FF> F-8 <#8080FF> devel
php-idn PHP API for GNU LibIDN Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
php-magickwand PHP API for Image Magick {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
tcpick TCP stream sniffer, tracker and capturer Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
eggdrop World's most popular Open Source IRC bot Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
perl-Net-LibIDN Perl bindings for GNU LibIDN Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
mimedefang E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter interface {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
librsync Rsync libraries Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
bitlbee IRC to other chat networks gateway Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
duplicity Untrusted/encrypted backup using rsync algorithm Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
libopm Blitzed open proxy monitor library Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
digitemp Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
mksh MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
popt C library for parsing command line parameters {X} {X} {X} Important.png Important.png
beldi Belug Linux Distribution Burner {X} {X} Idea.png Idea.png Idea.png
perl-Razor-Agent Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
lzop Real-time file compressor Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
arj Archiver for .arj files Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
nomarch GPLed Arc de-archiver Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
freeze Freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
perl-Convert-UUlib Perl interface to the uulib library Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
iftop Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
pexpect Pure Python Expect-like module Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
python-GnuPGInterface A Python module to interface with GnuPG Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
python-boto A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
phpMyAdmin Web based MySQL browser written in PHP {o} {o} {o} {o} {o}
libnids Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
dsniff Tools for network auditing and penetration testing Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
gkrellm-top GKrellM plugin which shows 3 most CPU intensive processes {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI Speed up perl scripts by running them persistently Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
ddclient Client to update dynamic DNS host entries Important.png Important.png {o} {o} {o}
perl-ccom Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
unicap Library to access different kinds of (video) capture devices {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
beecrypt An open source cryptography library {X} {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png
bind-libbind Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) libbind resolver libraries Important.png {X} {X} {X} {X}
sip-redirect Tiny IPv4 and IPv6 SIP redirect server written in Perl Idea.png Idea.png Idea.png Idea.png Idea.png
ucview Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit {X} Important.png Important.png Important.png Important.png
gnokii Linux/Unix tool suite for various mobile phones {X} Important.png {o} {o} {o}


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