GNU pies is a program that supervises the invocation and execution of other programs. It reads the list of programs to be started from its configuration file, executes them, and then monitors their status, re-executing them as necessary.

Nmon is yet another system monitor useful in systems administration, debugging, tuning, and benchmarking.

The configurable ncurses interface displays all the classic resource usage statistics (CPU, memory, network, disk, ...) as real-time graphs or numbers. It can also list the processes responsible in a top-like table.

A less common nmon feature is its ability to create highly detailed log files in CSV format. These can be imported into spreadsheets or fed straight into an RRD using rrdtool for further analysis, or to create colourful graphs.

Ansible aims to be a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible facilitates complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers. This package is the core of Ansible, which provides the following commands:

• ansible

• ansible-config

• ansible-connection

• ansible-console

• ansible-doc

• ansible-galaxy

• ansible-inventory

• ansible-playbook

• ansible-pull

• ansible-test

• ansible-vault

Provides a DHCP and a DHCPv6 client. Additionally, dhcpcd is also an IPv4LL (aka ZeroConf) client. In layperson's terms, dhcpcd runs on your machine and silently configures your computer to work on the attached networks without trouble and mostly without configuration.

lr is a tool for generating file listings, which includes the best features of ls(1), find(1), stat(1) and du(1).

This package provides a universal seat management library that allows applications to use whatever seat management is available.

rex runs a supplied command or shell script on several hosts in succession or in parallel. It can also be used to copy a file or files to several hosts.

GTK-based greeter for greetd, to be run under a compositor such as Cage.

This project aims to provide an extension to the Shepherd, retraining it as a swineherd, a manager of crude system containers. It does this by providing a Shepherd service swineherd that talks to the Shepherd process to create Guix System containers as Shepherd services. It also comes with an optional HTTP API server.

ngrep is like GNU grep applied to the network layer. It's a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets. It understands many kinds of protocols, including IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw, across a wide variety of interface types, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

This package contains a debugging tool for Allwinner devices (connects via USB OTG).

The GNU Shepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it supervises the execution of system services, replacing similar functionality found in typical init systems. It provides dependency-handling through a convenient interface and is based on GNU Guile.

Lynis is a security auditing tool. It performs an in-depth security scan and runs on the system itself. The primary goal is to test security defenses and provide tips for further system hardening. It will also scan for general system information, vulnerable software packages, and possible configuration issues.

fdupes is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories.

Rdfind is a command line tool that finds duplicate files based on their content instead of their file names. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files.

GNU Radius is a server for remote user authentication and accounting. It is generally useful for networks that require a centralized authentication and accounting services for its workstations. Authentication can be performed in a variety of ways, such as via /etc/passwd or credentials stored in an SQL database.

Stress is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors it detects.

Stress is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy load.

A daemon that monitors directories for events, such as creating, deleting or modifying files. It can monitor different sets of directories for different events. When an event is detected, direvent calls a specified external program with information about the event, such as the location within the file system where it occurred. Thus, "direvent" provides an easy way to react immediately if given files undergo changes, for example, to track changes in important system configuration files.

The Cactus File Manager (cfm) helps you manage your files visually from a text terminal. It aims to be simple and fast, with key bindings inspired by vi.

The GNU Shepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it supervises the execution of system services, replacing similar functionality found in typical init systems. It provides dependency-handling through a convenient interface and is based on GNU Guile.

This package provides an on demand system DBus service. It allows callers to configure network authentication and domain membership in a standard way. Realmd discovers information about the domain or realm automatically and does not require complicated configuration in order to join a domain or realm. Dbus system service that manages discovery and enrollment in realms/domains like Active Directory or IPA.

nq can create very lightweight job queue systems which require no setup, maintenance, supervision, or any long-running processes.

pscircle visualizes Linux processes in the form of a radial tree.

Tree is a recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files, which is colorized ala dircolors if the LS_COLORS environment variable is set and output is to tty.