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Proxy auto-config. A proxy auto-config ( PAC) file defines how web browsers and other user agents can automatically choose the appropriate proxy server (access method) for fetching a given URL . A PAC file contains a JavaScript function FindProxyForURL(url, host). This function returns a string with one or more access method specifications.
Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol. The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Protocol is a method used by clients to locate the URL of a configuration file using DHCP and/or DNS discovery methods. Once detection and download of the configuration file is complete, it can be executed to determine the proxy for a specified URL.
Auto-configuration. Auto-configuration is the automatic configuration of devices without manual intervention, without any need for software configuration programs or jumpers. Ideally, auto-configuring devices should just "plug and play". Auto-configuration has been made common because of the low cost of microprocessors and other embedded ...
configure script. A configure script is an executable script designed to aid in developing a program to be run on a wide number of different computers. It matches the libraries on the user's computer, with those required by the program before compiling it from its source code . As a common practice, all configure scripts are named configure.
Puppet is a software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. It is being developed by Puppet Inc., founded by Luke Kanies in 2005. Its primary product, Puppet Enterprise, [3] is a proprietary and closed-source version of its open-source Puppet software.
Autoconf. GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing, and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available. Autoconf is agnostic about the programming languages used, but it is often used for projects using C, C++, Fortran, Fortran 77, Erlang, or Objective-C .
Leiningen, a tool providing commonly performed tasks in Clojure projects, including build automation. Mix, the Elixir build tool. MSBuild, the Microsoft build engine. NAnt, a tool similar to Ant for the .NET Framework. Ninja, a small build system focused on speed by using build scripts generated by higher-level build systems.
Spacewalk. Spacewalk is an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution [buzzword] and is the upstream project for the source of Red Hat Network Satellite. Spacewalk works with RHEL, Fedora, and other RHEL derivative distributions like CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc.