Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code.
Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's
predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root
desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well
as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display the output
from stdout.
from Vlad Glagolev <stelzy at gmail.com> (MAINTAINER)
feedback and ok ajacoutot@
Monitord is a compact Perl-based tool for watching the health of UNIX
systems. Monitord monitors the local system by watching the process
table, load average figures, the amount of free space in file systems,
and the output of custom monitoring scripts.
from Okan Demirmen
The shunt utilites: shunt, exactly, and flyisofs, were originally
written for burning multi-set CDROM backups using mkiosfs and cdrecord.
The key utility -- shunt -- manages recursive access to piped I/O, so that
programs may be restarted and continue to use an existing pipe.
submitted by Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net>
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra
reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target
directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea
is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files,
permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes,
acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth
efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup
and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only
the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to
use and settings have sensical defaults.
ok mbalmer@
Wmcb is a WindowMaker dockapp that displays the current content of the
cut buffers built into every Xserver. It allows the buffers to be
manipulated with the mouse in a point and click manner.
ncdu is an ncurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command. It
provides a fast and easy interface to your harddrive. Where is your disk
space going? Why is your home directory that large? ncdu can answer
those questions for you in just a matter of seconds.
ok mbalmer@
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system
administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of
computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program.
Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many
advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and
recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is
scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of
hundreds of computers located over a large network.
from Mike Erdely <mike@erdelynet.com>
libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to
statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and
presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access
key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network traffic,
disk I/O, and more.
from William Yodlowsky (MAINTAINER)
with tweaks by me
