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Archive for the 'Free-Tools' Category

Opsview – Enterprise network and Application monitoring based on Nagios

Posted by Admin on 31st July 2008

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Opsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 and is released under the GNU GPL license. Current version is 2.12.

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rinetd – Internet TCP redirection server

Posted by Admin on 12th July 2008

rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another, with basic IP-based access control.

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sshpass – Non-interactive ssh password authentication

Posted by Admin on 6th April 2008

SSH’s (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called “interactive keyboard password authentication”, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.

SECURITY NOTE: There is a reason openssh insists that passwords be typed interactively. Passwords are harder to store securely and to pass around securely between programs. If you

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autossh – Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels

Posted by Admin on 17th March 2008

autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The idea is from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), but implemented in C. Connection monitoring is done using a loop of port forwardings. It backs off on the rate of connection attempts when experiencing rapid failures such as connection refused.

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Howto Determine the throughput of a pipe command

Posted by Admin on 25th February 2008

If you want to Determine the throughput of a pipe you need to use cpipe.Cpipe copies its standard input to its standard output while measuring the time it takes to read an input buffer and write an output buffer. Statistics of average throughput and the total amount of bytes copied are printed to the standard error output.

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Setup Easy Hosting Control Panel (ehcp) for Debian/Ubuntu

Posted by dgs on 2nd February 2008

ehcp is a new Hosting Control Panel in Linux world. Although it is in beta stage, its basic functions are well functioning. it operates strongly with debian/ubuntu”s apt-get package manager..

it differs from other control panels, or even other opensource panels that, ehcp is the first and only: opensource,full php, object oriented, gpl, free hosting control panel on the earth !

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Posted in Free-Tools, General, Other Linux, Webserver | 14 Comments »