A utility for configuring serial ports. Setserial is a basic system utility for displaying or setting serial port information. Setserial can reveal and allow you to alter the I/O port and IRQ that a particular serial device is using, and ...
A text mode system configuration tool. Setuptool is a user-friendly text mode menu utility which allows you to access all of the text mode configuration programs included in the Red Hat Linux operating system. You should install the ...
A tool which displays the status of serial port modem lines. The statserial utility displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. Statserial is useful for debugging serial port ...
Allows restricted root access for specified users. Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates ...
A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links. The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically ...
Simple kernel loader which boots from a FAT filesystem Syslinux is a simple kernel loader. It normally loads the kernel (and an optional initrd image) from a FAT filesystem. It can also be used as a PXE bootloader during network boots.
The sar and iostat system monitoring commands. This package provides the sar and iostat commands for Linux. Sar and iostat enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other IO activity.
A GNU utility for monitoring a program's use of system resources. The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.
A system integrity assessment tool. Tripwire is a very valuable security tool for Linux systems, if it is installed to a clean system. Tripwire should be installed right after the OS installation, and before you have connected your ...
Utility used to create fonts.scale files for truetype fonts Ttmkfdir is a utility which is used to create fonts.scale files in directories full of TrueType fonts in order to prepare them for use by the font server.
Linux USB utilities. This package contains utilities for inspecting devices connected to a USB bus.
USB topology and device viewer USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices that are plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on each of the devices. This can be useful to ...
Tools for certain user account management tasks. The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.
Graphical tools for certain user account management tasks. The usermode-gtk package contains several graphical tools for users: userinfo, usermount and userpasswd. Userinfo allows users to change their finger information. Usermount lets users mount, unmount, ...
A program which locks one or more virtual consoles. The vlock program locks one or more sessions on the console. Vlock can lock the current terminal (local or remote) or the entire virtual console system, which completely disables all console access. ...
Displays where a particular program in your path is located. The which command shows the full pathname of a specified program, if the specified program is in your PATH.
An X Window System based CPU state monitor. The xcpustate utility is an X Window System based monitor which shows the amount of time that the CPU is spending in different states. On a Linux system, xcpustate displays a bar that indicates the ...
Compiles information about file transfers from logfiles Xferstats compiles information about file transfers from logfiles.
An ISDN connection load average display for the X Window System. The xisdnload utility displays a periodically updated histogram of the load average over your ISDN connection.
A tool for converting XML files to various formats. This is a package for converting XML files to various formats using XSL stylesheets.
Graphical tool displaying the contents of the LCD of HP printers Graphical tool displaying the contents of the LCD of HP multi-function devices and laser printers. Very useful to monitor the state (paper, ink, running job) of a printer directly on one's ...
An X Window System utility for monitoring system resources. The xosview utility displays a set of bar graphs which show the current system state, including memory usage, CPU usage, system load, etc. Xosview runs under the X Window System.
A system documentation reader from the Gnome project. Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool.
Utilities for creating compressed CD-ROM filesystems. A utility which works in combination with an appropriately patched version of mkisofs to allow the creation of compressed CD-ROM filesystems.
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