The utility stmpclean securely deletes old files from directories
such as /tmp and /var/tmp.
Combining find and rm (possibly with xargs) for this purpose allows
a local attacker to delete any file on the system. It is a security
hole.
Using one of the nifty floating around Perl scripts for this purpose
is dangerous: when you have an attack they have a tendency to behave
like forking bombs, making matters much worse.
The Swap Extender Daemon is designed to monitor the amount of swap space
available on the system and create more on-disk swap as needed. Additionally
Swap Extender will remove unwanted swap space when memory is freed.
Cfengine is an automated suite of programs for configuring and
maintaining Unix-like computers. It has been used on computing arrays
of between 1 and 20,000 computers since 1993 by a wide range of
organizations. Cfengine is supported by active research and was the
first autonomic, hands-free management system for Unix-like operating
systems. Cfengine is an autonomic maintenance system not merely a
change management roll-out tool. Cfengine has a history of security
and adaptability.
Sysrc is a robust utility for managing rc.conf(5) from the command-line without
a text-editor. Feature-highlights include (but are not limited to):
- Environment variable taint prevention
- Shell taint checking (aka boot-regression prevention)
- File-access race-condition prevention
- File-structure sensitivity/preservation
- Intelligent syntax handling
- Execution performance optimizations
- Detailed safety measures
- Support for jails (both legacy and current)
Tentakel is a program for executing the same command on many
hosts in parallel using various remote methods. It can make
use of several sets of hosts that are defined in a
configuration file as groups.
It also supports an interactive mode that can be used for
repeated commands.
tzdialog is an ISO-3166 compliant sh(1) implementation of tzsetup(8) based on
the dialog(1) (or Xdialog(1)) utility for setting the local default timezone.
FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software that helps you synchronize
files and synchronize folders for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
It is designed to save your time setting up and running backup jobs while
having nice visual feedback along the way.
sas2ircu allows basic management of mps(4) based RAID controllers.
This includes controllers based on the LSI SAS2 IR protocol.
See the mps(4) man page for a more thorough list of controllers.
sas3ircu allows basic management of LSI SAS-3 controllers.
See the mpr(4) man page for a more thorough list of controllers.
This is the port of scanbuttond, an utility to monitor the various buttons
found on many modern scanners which are intended to trigger certain actions
like copying, faxing or mailing the scanned document.
This daemon queries the scanner button state several times per second via
libusb and if it detects that a button is pressed it runs a shell script with
the button number as an argument.
The supported scanner backends currently are: epson, niash, plustek, snapscan