Software Map

daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tedious tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process; daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other than C, C++, or Perl (e.g. sh, Java). If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions (e.g. C, C++), see libslack, which contains the core functionality of daemon.

ethwireck can detect if the physical layer of the
Ethernet is up. Laptops which use dynamic IP
address assignment via DHCP have the problem that
the boot process is much longer when no wire is
connected to the Ethernet card. This is because
the startup scripts have to wait for the DHCP
request to time out. ethwireck can be used in the
init script for your network card to determine
whether or not an interface should be brought up.
In other words, a timeout is avoided.

TCDR is a dialog-based console frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao, mkzftree, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladeenc, lame, oggenc, ogg123, mpg123, and sox written in bash.

Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a
computer at a specific time, but only if some
conditions are met. It works well on home
routers/firewalls where the machine can be
switched off every night and powered back up in
the morning. It can be configured to only shut
down the server after any computers which depend
on the server for Internet access have been shut
down.

rICMP is a Linux kernel patch that allows you
to reboot your machine using a simple ICMP
ping. It includes password authentication and
an ACL to manage hosts authorized to
perform reboot. It allows you to reboot hung
machines if the kernel and network are still
alive.

PrRescue is a rescue CD based on Gentoo amd64/i686 supporting nilfs2 and btrfs. Its goal is to always include the newest kernel and Gentoo packages.

DOCSIS Server is a DHCP/TFTP/TOD/syslog server
that uses MySQL as a backend. If you have a
DOCSIS Cable Modem headend, you can use this
server to boot up cable modems and assign IP
addresses to customer premise equipment. With a
little bit of tweaking you could also use it as
just a DHCP server attached to a MySQL database.
It was designed to boot up more than 150 modems
per second.

Powertweak-Linux is a tool to tune your system to its optimal performance settings. It started life as the replacement for the now obsolete kernel option 'tune PCI bridges', and has been extended to provide more features and support more chipsets. It can also tune network/filesystem performance using /proc/sys entries, disk elevator settings, and x86 CPU registers (needs 2.2.18 or 2.4.0test kernel), CDROM speeds, hdparm type features, and Sony VAIO backlight. It has both a GTK GUI and a text-based lister.

ramlog acts as a system daemon that maintains log
files in memory instead of hard disk while the
system is running. On startup, it creates a
ramdisk, copies files from /var/log into the
ramdisk, and mounts the ramdisk as /var/log. All
logs after that will be updated on the ramdisk.
When shutting down or restarting the service, it
saves log files back to hard disk. This service
drastically reduces the frequency of hard disk
usage, which can be useful when the system runs on
battery or uses flash memory instead of a hard
disk.