https://debaday.debian.net/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The tmpreaper utility will clean out your temporary file directories by recursively removing files that haven't been accessed in some amount of time. You can configure exclusions and it will not dive into symlinks, or remove symlinks, sockets, FIFOs, or special files unless specifically told to. However, the package description contains ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/22/tmpreaper-keep-your-temp-files-under-control/ lbzip2 is a multi-threaded bzip2 compressor/decompressor utility that can be used on its own, in pipelines, or passed to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option (or with the --use shorthand). The main motivation for writing lbzip2 was that I didn't know about any parallel bzip2 decompressor ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/12/lbzip2-parallel-bzip2-utility/ Everyone knows they should do regular backups. Sooner or later, your hardware will fail, or you will accidentally delete a directory, or something else will happen. Many people, however, ignore periodic backups because they find it too much of a hassle. That's why, the backup procedure must be fully automated and ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/01/backupninja-the-ultimate-data-defender/ Article submitted by Emmanuel Kasper. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! Sometimes you know you just need to change a single line or a only a few things in a file, but for sure you don't need syntax highlighting, Gnome VFS integration, or ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/09/27/leafpad-a-graphical-text-editor-that-starts-really-fast/ Article submitted by Carsten Aulbert. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! timeout (part of the SATAN package) is a nice little tool to terminate/send a signal to a process after a given time. It usually takes two arguments, the first one is the time ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/09/20/timeout-send-a-signal-to-a-process-after-some-time/ Article submitted by Pete Daniels. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like! yeahconsole is a "quake-like" dropdown terminal emulator wrapper for X. Originally written to complement the author's window manager (yeahWM), it can be used anywhere, and is lightweight and dependency-free. yeahconsole can be invoked ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/09/13/yeahconsole-a-dropdown-terminal-emulator-wrapper-for-x/ fcheck is a program that emails an alert when important files or directories change. This is useful for change control or detecting unauthorized modifications that may indicate an intrusion. Most sysadmins will agree that having a file integrity checker is a good idea, the problem with them is that ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/08/23/fcheck-easy-to-use-file-integrity-checker/ Logcheck is a simple yet great idea, an almost set-it-and-forget-it way to monitor your server logs for problems of all kinds. You create three pattern (grep regex) lists: Known bad stuff Looks bad but isn't Known good stuff Logcheck periodically checks various syslog (or other) log files and picks up where it left off ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/07/19/logcheck-brilliantly-simple-log-monitoring/ Article submitted by JP Vossen. DebADay needs you more than ever! Please submit good articles about software you like! Nullmailer is a minimal MTA (Mail Transport Agent) that provides mail delivery services to programs (cron jobs, system integrity checkers, log inspectors, etc.) in a ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/06/28/nullmailer-simple-send-only-mail-transport-agent/ Oops, this article was supposed to go live on Sunday, my bad. Article submitted by Paul Wise. DebADay needs you more than ever! Please submit good articles about software you like! Chromium B.S.U. is a top down fast paced high action scrolling space shooter. In this game you are the captain of ... https://debaday.debian.net/2009/06/24/chromium-bsu-fast-paced-arcade-style-scrolling-space-shooter/