Open Source Unix Shell Systems Administration Software

SoupToNuts is a repository of technical articles and example software covering Postfix, OpenSSH, C and C++, Live Linux CD, MySQL, SQLite, Berkeley DB, Bash and System Administration.

BatchLogin is a shell connection virtualization program. It allows a user on a complex network to connect and execute scripts and commands upon groups of machines without having to deal with the connection specifics every time.

Sh script that collects system information about OS and hardware using standard built-in system utilities and presents collected info as detailed report. Collected info: System type, kernel version, system release, number of CPUz/cores, memory, filesystem, bios info.

An all-in-one authentication with mysql as backend. Features: - Howto/Document - user info - libnss-mysql - pam-mysql - usersql - pdbsql (samba) - radius-mysql - mail

Extends shell * and ? wildcards to allow inserting matched strings like Windows 'copy *.old =.new' Some examples: # Rename current files as old doall 'mv *.cur *.old' # Compress camcorder DV files doall 'ffmpeg -i *.dv *.mp4' # Move files into directories according to their extension doall 'mv *.* $2/$1.$2' # Symbolic links from vmlinuz.new to vmlinuz-5.12.6-foo, similarly config.new System.map.new doall 'ln -s /boot/*-5.12.6-* /boot/$1.new' # Hard link 3-character abbreviations for file extensions doall 'ln *.???* $1.$2' As shown above, instead of '=' to indicate insertions, doall uses either * or $1 etc. doall -p (pretend mode) shows a list of commands instead of executing them doall -i (interactive mode) asks for confirmation for each command in turn doall -k (keep-running mode) ignores failing commands

Nice Bashing is a framework for distributed configuration of your bash environment. There are many libraries with functions which one can enable, and a rsync-based system of replicating your settings to all the hosts you connect to.

Openldapconf is a shell script to install and configure openldap and its dependencies automagically. By now, it includes integration with Samba and Squid. You can make a full installation or configure the packages separated. Powered by Slackware

XEN guests / cloud management shell which provides secure, simple and easy (remote, multi-user, multi-level) console based access to XEN DomU management - with simple bandwidth monitoring.