"pstack" is a workalike for the Solaris program of the same name.
Running pstack on a process or core file produces a stack trace of
each thread in that process.
It's useful for finding out what wedged processes are up to, getting
profiles of what applications, and just satisfying one's curiosity.
filelike is a Python module for building and manipulating file-like
objects.
This module takes care of the groundwork for implementing and manipulating
objects that provide a rich file-like interface, including reading,
writing, seeking and iteration. It also provides a number of useful
classes built on top of this functionality.
Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility. It uses a sliding
window of threads to execute remote commands, conserving socket resources while
allowing some connections to timeout if needed. It was originally written as a
replacement for IBM's DSH on clusters at LLNL.
Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with
Rails. You simply provide SwitchTower with a deployment "recipe" that
describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically
have single-command deployment. It even allows you to roll a bad version
out of production and revert back to the previous release.
SCSI / firewire harddrive spindown daemon
This is a small program for handling automated spinning down of
SCSI harddrives. With SCSI devices it is not as common to spindown
for power management purposes as for ATA however it might be required
to spin down a disk contained in a firewire enclosure for instance.
Murder is a method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount
of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and
fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers
where centralized distribution systems wouldn't otherwise function.
Shellany captures command output.
Features:
- Portability (should work on recent JRuby versions).
- Capturing stdout, stderr in a convenient way.
- Returning the result in a convenient way.
- Detecting if a shell is needed (though incomplete/primitive implementation).
- Prevents running the same command multiple times.
Auto-admin is a set of tools for automating common systems management tasks
from the command line. It is meant as a library of scripts to be used by
more specific automated systems management scripts. It is also intended to
serve as a compatibility layer to ease management of multiple POSIX platforms.
Scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer
definitions and extracts matching files or data fragments from a set of
image files or raw device files.
Scalpel is filesystem-independent and will carve files from
FATx, NTFS, ext2/3, HFS+, or raw partitions.
It is useful for both digital forensics investigation and file recovery.
Snowlog is a program that lets you browse your web server's access log files.
It does not generate static HTML status reports but instead shows you all
accesses in a list that you can filter, sort and search easily. It's a
console application and supposed to run on the server via ssh.
Filters that accept regular expressions can be applied.