Beats is the platform for building lightweight, open source data
shippers for many types of operational data you want to enrich with
Logstash, search and analyze in Elasticsearch, and visualize in Kibana.
Whether you're interested in log files, infrastructure metrics, network
packets, or any other type of data, Beats serves as the foundation for
keeping a beat on your data.
Packetbeat is the open source data shipper that integrates with
Elasticsearch and Kibana to provide real-time analytics for web,
database, and other network protocols.
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one
or more machines. A job is typically a single command or a small
script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The
typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, or
a list of tables.
If you use xargs today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use. If
you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to
replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running jobs in
parallel. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU Parallel will
often make the command easier to read.
GNU Parallel also makes sure output from the commands is the same
output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This
makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other
programs.
QSynergy is a comprehensive and easy to use graphical front end for
Synergy. Synergy lets a user control more than one computer with
a single mouse and keyboard (and has lots and lots of extra features
on top of that). Synergy itself only comes with a GUI for MS
Windows. QSynergy was written to fill the gap for users on Mac and
Unix platforms. Of course, it runs on MS Windows as well.
Pfstat is a small utility that collects packet filter (security/pf) statistics
and produces graphs like mrtg or alike. Samples can be found at the website
below.
This tool removes blocks of 0x00 from files by replacing them with
phantomblocks. That way, a file uses less diskspace while its contents
hasn't changed at all!
BEWARE: after copying these files with tar, cp, cpio or any other tool,
the phantomblocks have been replaced with 0x00-blocks again!
EXAMPLE:
find / -type f -print | xargs -n 1 phantom -r -i
This would go trough the whole harddisk, scan all files and generate
0x00-blocks where necessary.
plconfig is an experimental commandline tool for configuring HomePlug
(Ethernet over AC) powerline bridges powered by the Intellon INT5130
chipset. Again, this tool is considered "between an ugly hack and
simple use-once-and-throw-away" quality by the program's author.
PolicyKit is a framework for defining policy for system-wide components and
for desktop pieces to configure it. PolicyKit-gnome is a GTK+/GNOME frontend
for that framework.
read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the
EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996,
assuming the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).
Two tools are provided: get-edid, which gets the raw EDID information from
the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw binary information into a
xorg.conf-compatible monitor section (or xrandr-compatible modelines).
PolicyKit is a framework for defining policy for system-wide components and
for desktop pieces to configure it. It is used by HAL.
PolicyKit is a framework for defining policy for system-wide components and
for desktop pieces to configure it. PolicyKit-gnome is a GTK+/GNOME frontend
for that framework.