The Heirloom Toolchest is a collection of standard Unix utilities.
Highlights are:
* Derived from original Unix material released as open source by Caldera
* Up to four versions of each utility corresponding to SVID3/SVR4,
SVID4/SVR4.2MP, POSIX.2/SUSV2, and 4BSD (SVR4 /usr/ucb)
* Support for lines of arbitrary length and in many cases binary input data
* Support for multibyte character sets, especially UTF-8
* More than 100 individual utilities including bc, cpio, diff, ed, file,
find, grep, man, nawk, oawk, pax, ps, sed, sort, spell, and tar
* The cpio utility can read and write zip files, GNU tar files, and
the cpio formats of Cray UNICOS, SGI IRIX (-K), SCO UnixWare (-c)
and Tru64 UNIX (-e). It is also available with the pax interface
* Extensive documentation including a manual page for any utility
* Runs on Linux, Solaris, Open UNIX, and FreeBSD
The FreeBSD LiveCD Tool Set main goal is allowing one to generate
custom FreeBSD Live CDs. FreeBSD LiveCD was born as a Brazilian
FreeBSD User Group (www.fugspbr.org) project. The objective was to
create a tool that would allow us a safe diagnostic method under
emergency enviroments and specially as a rescue disk where FreeBSD
partitions could only be accessed (mounted) externally.
What is LiveCD? Its such a simple answer, it is nothing but a set
of patches applied to the FreeBSD Initialization files allowing the
system to run from a CDROM, setting the best way to either mount
under Memory File System (MFS) or Virtual Nodes (vnodes) those
filesystems that need Write and Read access. Slices that just need
Read access are still run from the CD.
Can I use it to install FreeBSD? Yes, with recent revision 1.2, it
can install a FreeBSD system without any other disks. It also support
batch operation mode for automated installation processes.
Is LiveCD any different from an ordinarily installed FreeBSD system?
It is a completely functional FreeBSD system just like any ordinarily
installed one. You will be able to both run any applications and
mount any filesystems as any FreeBSD system would allow you.
Edson Brandi <ebrandi@fugspbr.org>
Afuse is an automounting file system implemented in user-space using
FUSE. Afuse currently implements the most basic functionality that can
be expected by an automounter; that is it manages a directory of virtual
directories. If one of these virtual directories is accessed and is not
already automounted, afuse will attempt to mount a filesystem onto that
directory. If the mount succeeds the requested access proceeds as normal,
otherwise it will fail with an error.
The advantage of using afuse over traditional automounters is that afuse
is designed to run entirely in user-space by individual users. This way an
automounting action can take advantage of the invoking users environment,
for example allowing access to an ssh-agent for password-less sshfs
mounts, or allowing access to a graphical environment to get user input
to complete a mount (i.e. popping up a window asking for a password).
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect
logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking
of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling
into all of your logs.
luckyBackup is a QT4 application that backs-up and synchronizes directories
using the power of rsync. It is simple to use, fast (only transfers changes
made), safe, reliable, and fully customizable.
Contractor is an extension service that allows applications to use the
exposed functionnality of registered apps. This way, applications don't have
to have the functions hard coded into them.
mdcp (Muli-Device Copy) is a command-line utility for *nix that provide
to copy from a disk device to many. The data transfer rate is improved
by making use of a much more efficient use of the transfer rate of the disks.
Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged messages can
be dispatched according to their facility, urgency, program name and/or
Perl-compatible regular expressions.
Log files can be automatically rotated when they exceed a certain size or age.
External shell scripts (ex: mail) can be launched when specific patterns are
found.
Metalog is easier to configure than syslogd and syslog-ng, accepts unlimited
number of rules and has (switchable) memory bufferisation for maximal
performance.
This is a port of mtxorbd, a control daemon for the Matrix Orbital LCD Screens.
The asmem tool is an AfterStep look-n-feel memory utilization monitor
for X Window System. asmem shows the levels of utilization of the
various kinds of memory and swap space. Multiple options for
customization are available (colors, appearance, other stuff).