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In this directory are bits and pieces of software that you may find useful.
biffer
Biffer is a "better mail notification server", written by me back in the late 1980's at the University of Waterloo's Math Faculty Computing Facility. Those were the days of central mail servers, terminals, and the time when X Windows started to be widely used. Biffer is a daemon that works with a modified "comsat" daemon, to provide all sorts of interesting mail notification options, including filtering, forwarding, X popups, and arbitrary commands.
Now, in the days of central mail servers that you POP or IMAP your mail from, it's less useful than it once was, but still handy. I use it on my FreeBSD laptop, and (of course) quite like it. A FreeBSD port of biffer exists (or you can
if you prefer), or you can grab the biffer-1.0.tar.gz tarball here and do it yourself.cd /usr/ports/mail/biffer && make install clean
GCtools
GCtools is a small set of tools that includes
- danglink -- a tool for finding dangling symbolic links
- ifinput -- a wrapper command to run another command if there
is any input on the standard input, most commonly used in situations
like
some command with no normal output | ifinput mail -s 'some output' me
lc
Lc is an alternative to the venerable "ls" command. It harkens back to the mid-1970's at the University of Waterloo, and displays a directory, separating the different file types (directories, files, special files, etc.) into different sections, making it easier to see what's what. Once you get used to using it, you'll need it. There's a slightly newer version at https://github.com/jsellens/lc Also available as a FreeBSD portor you can grab the lc-1.0.tar.gz tarball here and do it yourself.cd /usr/ports/misc/lc && make install clean
Orca port for FreeBSD
Blair Zajac's cool Orca graphing software is now easier to install on FreeBSD. I've submitted an Orca port to the FreeBSD team, but it's not yet in the general distribution. So grab my tarball of the port, uncompress and "make install" on your favorite FreeBSD box. You can even use a FreeBSD machine as your web and Orca server for your Solaris Orcallator output.
req
Late 1990's variants of Remy Evard's "req" request tracking systems. Most outdated, but available here for your potential historical interest.
See also my Problem Tracking Page for other alternatives.
