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.

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.

This package contains a set of utilities for cloud computing environments:

• cloud-localds Create a disk for cloud-init to utilize nocloud

• cloud-publish-image Wrapper for cloud image publishing

• cloud-publish-tarball Wrapper for publishing cloud tarballs

• cloud-publish-ubuntu Import a Ubuntu cloud image

• ec2metadata Query and display EC2 metadata

• growpart Grow a partition to fill the device

• mount-image-callback Mount a file and run a command

• resize-part-image Resize a partition image to a new size

• ubuntu-cloudimg-query Get the latest Ubuntu AMI

• ubuntu-ec2-run Run a EC2 instance using Ubuntu

• vcs-run Obtain a repository, and run a command

• write-mime-multipart Handle multipart MIME messages

Shadow provides a number of authentication-related tools, including: login, passwd, su, groupadd, and useradd.

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.

libpcap is an interface for user-level packet capture. It provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.

This package provides a tiny system info utility.

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support for IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.

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.

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

wlgreet provides a greetd greeter that runs on a Wayland compositor such as sway. It is implemented with pure Wayland APIs, so it does not depend on a GUI toolkit.

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

Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in Bash. Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice. The main purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screenshots to show other users what operating system or distribution you are running, what theme or icon set you are using, etc.

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.

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It's a Python port and continuation of bashtop.

hostapd is a user-space daemon for WiFi access points and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators, RADIUS client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server.

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

doctl provides a unified command line interface to the DigitalOcean API.

Interrobang is a scriptable launcher menu with a customizable shortcut syntax and completion options.

Iftop does for network usage what top does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.

This package provides a way to figure out which processes communicate with which other processes. It provides more usable versions of ps, top and pstree.

pam-hooks is a tiny PAM module enabling the execution of hook scripts when a PAM session is opened or closed. The typical use case is the need of doing some per-user set-up when a user logs via a PAM-aware login mechanism and/or the need of doing some per-user clean-up when the user logs out.

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.