GNU Rot[t]log is a program for managing log files. It is used to automatically rotate out log files when they have reached a given size or according to a given schedule. It can also be used to automatically compress and archive such logs. Rot[t]log will mail reports of its activity to the system administrator.

This package provides a tiny system info utility.

This is the user-space component to the Linux auditing system, which allows logging of system calls made by user-land processes. auditd is responsible for writing audit records to the disk. Viewing the logs is done with the ausearch or aureport utilities. Configuring the audit rules is done with the auditctl utility.

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.

nettop is a traffic visualizer for the terminal that summarizes network bandwidth by process and remote host.

IGT GPU Tools is a collection of tools for development and testing of the Intel DRM driver. There are many macro-level test suites that get used against the driver, including xtest, rendercheck, piglit, and oglconform, but failures from those can be difficult to track down to kernel changes, and many require complicated build procedures or specific testing environments to get useful results. Therefore, IGT GPU Tools includes low-level tools and tests specifically for development and testing of the Intel DRM Driver.

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.

Hosts is a command line program for managing /etc/hosts entries. On Guix System, /etc/hosts is managed from the system configuration; hosts only works when using the Guix package manager on a foreign distro. hosts works with existing hosts files and entries, providing commands to add, remove, comment, and search.

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources in real-time, you can, e.g., compare disk utilization in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval).

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

nnn is a fork of noice, a fast and minimal text terminal file browser with keyboard shortcuts for navigation, opening files and running tasks. There is no configuration file and MIME associations are hard-coded.

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.

This package provides a simple, configurable system information tool.

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.

The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes utilities that can analyse all currently running applications and print out any capabilities and whether or not it has an open ended bounding set. The included utilities are designed to let admins and developers spot apps from various ways that may be running with too much privilege.

The ACPICA project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the ACPI specification. ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.

jc JSONifies the output of many CLI tools and file-types for easier parsing in scripts.

This package provides a command-line UEFI image editor, including cbfs, create-ffs, fmap, fspinfo, glzma, guid2english, microcode and utk CLI utilities.

Fastfetch is a tool for fetching system information and displaying it in a stylized way. Fastfetch displays this information next to a logo of the system distribution, akin to many similar tools.

Utility to convert lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.

SSHGuard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using one of several firewall backends.

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 provides a curated set of community-maintained Ansible collections, which contain playbooks, roles, modules and plugins that extend Ansible.

dfc (df color) is a modern version of df. It uses colors, draws pretty graphs and can export its output to different formats.

This package provides an editor for the Novena EEPROM. Novena boards contain a device-dependent descriptive EEPROM that defines various parameters such as serial number, MAC address, and featureset. This program allows you to view and manipulate this EEPROM list.