Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and FreeBSD has almost all
of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI
to make it easy to use.
This library comes from the gksu program. It provides a simple API to use su
and sudo in programs that need to execute tasks as other user. It provides X
authentication facilities for running programs in a X session.
This library is intended to be used by applications that need to communicate
with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via a parallel port.
The aim of this library is to take all the worry about the above wrinkles
from the application. It will figure out which methods are appropriate for
the currently running kernel (or operating system).
libretto-config - Libretto BIOS Setting Program
The `libretto-config' is a utility program to configure the BIOS
setting of the mini notebook computer, Toshiba Libretto. Changes to
the setting are immediately done, so rebooting is not necessary.
I don't know whether these programs work on any other machines but
Libretto. In case of Toshiba's notebook machines, some function may
work.
*** Disclaimer *****************************************************
The information used to write these programs was obtained by
analyzing Libretto individually, not provided by Toshiba. Therefore,
they might contain fatal bugs and might cause damages to your
Libretto. You can use them freely but the authors are not
responsible for the programs. Redistribution of the programs are not
restricted, but you must attach this caution and the source.
********************************************************************
The original program were written by Mr. Iizuka
(PXN02133@niftyserve.or.jp), which rewrite the CMOS setting directly.
Mr. Nomura (GBB00111@niftyserve.or.jp) have extended the program to
support SMI and BIOS calling. Thanks.
I, Ishioka, combined programs to the package. If you have any troubles,
bug reports, or requests, please notify me.
The libutempter library provides interface for terminal emulators such as
screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.
The utempter is a privileged helper used by libutempter library to manipulate
utmp and wtmp files.
This implementation is based on ideas of RedHat's utempter by Erik Troan
(version 0.5.2 at the moment of writing).
There are two interfaces supported: old and new.
New API is recommended for new applications, old - for compatibility with
old software.
Life-Preserver provides ZFS snapshot and replication management
along with restore functionality. Used by PC-BSD and has an optional
Qt4 based UI interface.
On FreeBSD, it's possible to allow plain users to mount filesystems
without using su or sudo. This is enabled via vfs.usermount sysctl.
However, if file name conversion is used when mounting a filesystem,
in most cases mount will fail with `mount_XXX: XXX_iconv: Operation
not permitted denied' error. This is caused by the fact that character
set conversion tables need to be loaded into kernel, but, apart
from mounting, that's not allowed to plain users, because charset
tables are large enough to initiate a denial of service by filling
kernel memory with many tables.
This utility allows you to load only specific charset tables into
kernel, so usermounts with file name conversions won't fail and in
the same time it's not possible to bring the system down by filling
kernel memory.
LinEAK is a utility designed to enable the use and configuration
of those special keys on Internet, Easy Access and Multimedia
keyboards in Linux (and other unices, like now FreeBSD).
This is a small script to find kernel modules
more easy.
The kldpatch utility can print or alter the content of device/quirk tables
in kernel modules. These tables are generally used to identify devices,
and possibly apply specific quirks to enable/disable certain features.
Kldpatch is especially useful to let the kernel recognise a new device
without rebooting and rebuilding/reinstalling kernel or modules.