When trying to use Yaird 0.0.12-7 with a recent 2.6.16 release candidate kernel, I noticed that it fails for vanilla ATA devices as the logic for discovering the device node doesn’t work with changes to the sysfs tree. I opened a Debian BTS bug and included the patch below, which needs to be cleaned up greatly. I didn’t spend much time looking for the best way to integrate this into Yaird, but rather wanted to get it working quickly. Hopefully Yaird will be ready for 2.6.16 when it’s finally released.

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I updated polltc finally. I haven’t had much time to mess with traffic control, so I haven’t really been watching all the patches and bug reports streaming in. Write something for a tight niche and users will come, I guess. I fixed a pretty huge bug with a regex pattern that prevented stats from being pull for countless configurations. Thanks to Mike Hughes for his mail leading to that eventual fix, four months late. Lee Sanders also provided a valuable patch with WRR support and a memory leak fix. Thanks to everyone else that’s provided reports!

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gcupdate is a small Perl hack (~ 50 lines) that removes some of the noise from QFX/OFX payee names so they sort better in spreadsheet tables and accounting software if you wish to sort by payee and not just your assigned categories. I used Config::General to make it possible to hardcode output for entries on an individual basis for those that the simple regex doesn’t clean up nicely. I found the regex worked surprisingly well for most of my transactions, though, so it’s rarely necessary. (For some reason I am fanantical about the payee names being reasonable looking — Not sure why.) It would probably be useful to add that this script expects input on STDIN.

I finally updated polltc with a few minor changes and fixed a warning.

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Thanks to the contributions of several people, a new version of polltc is available with bug fixes. It should work on a wider range of traffic control configurations now. From the README:

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