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CPU is an LDAP user management tool written in C and loosely based on FreeBSD's pw(8). The goal of CPU is to be a suitable replacement of the useradd/usermod/userdel utilities for administrators using an LDAP backend and wishing to have a suite of command line tools for doing the administration.

The ddpt utility is a variant of the standard Unix command dd which copies files. The ddpt utility specializes in files that are block devices. For block devices that understand the SCSI command set, finer grain control over the copy may be available via a SCSI pass-through interface.

This is a port of detox, which is a program that renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and related operating systems. Spaces and various other unsafe characters (such as "$") get replaced with "_". ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters can be replaced as well, as can UTF-8 characters.

etcmerge is a tool for keeping /etc up to date when updating, or for management after installworld (instead of mergemester). The primary difference from mergemaster, is that etcmerge requires much less manual work than mergemaster, due to the use of a three way merge.

This is the UFS2 version of ffsrecov, heavily (and I do mean _heavily_) based on John-Mark Gurney's program of the same name. It does basically the same thing, only it's a little more resistant to crashes caused by bad pointers, offsets and the like, and it does a little more than his did. Don't contact him for problems with this program, it's definitely _my_ fault if it breaks. This program is not ready for prime time. It has some shortfalls, it has a bunch of new options that are mostly undocumented and the manpage could stand to be rewritten. One _good_ thing is that it now uses the libufs library and is therefore not as dependent on carrying around low-level code. On the other hand, it worked for me. Using this tool, I was able to recover almost all of a several-hundred-gigabyte file system that had been stomped by a misconfigured RAID controller. (That's why I wrote the thing in the first place, in fact.) With the right knowledge and a lot of patience, it is possible to recover most or all of a trashed file system, at least if it's not _too_ trashed. I'm releasing it under the Berkeley two-clause license in the hope that someone with more time will pick it up, polish it and make something a little more useful out of it. Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com

Run 'freebsd-update fetch' when the system first boots; and if updates are downloaded, install them and request a reboot. Obviously, this port is not useful after a system is already running; it is intended to be included as part of the installation or disk image building process.

When the system first boots, resize the (GPT) partition holding the root filesystem, then resize the (UFS) root filesystem. This is intended to be used in virtual machines where a VM image is built with one size but may be launched onto a larger disk.

When the system first boots, install the pkg(8) tools (if not already installed) and packages listed in the $firstboot_pkgs_list rc.conf variable. If the installed packages added new rc.d scripts, request a reboot. Obviously, this port is not useful after a system is already running; it is intended to be included as part of the installation or disk image building process.

Geomgui is a viewer for the geom layer in the kernel written in C. It can show the geom layout on the host computer or fetch info from a remote system via ssh. It has the same arrow key bindings as fx, vi, (h,j,k and l)and uses z to soom out and Z to zoom in, u is for updating.

GNOME Power Manager is a GNOME session daemon that acts as a policy agent on top of HAL (the Hardware Abstraction Layer). GNOME Power Manager listens for HAL events and responds with user-configurable reactions. Currently it supports laptop batteries and AC adapters. Its goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and other hacks.