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Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

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  0 reviews  |  3,102 users  |  98,473 lines of code  |  1 current contributor  |  Analyzed 1 day ago
 
 

smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into ATA and SCSI hard drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive failures. It is meant to be an ... [More] up-to-date replacement for the ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that code. [Less]

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  0 reviews  |  323 users  |  57,317 lines of code  |  3 current contributors  |  Analyzed 6 days ago
 
 
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The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP or some external download clients to fetch the distributions from the net. These are fetched from one or ... [More] more of the mirrored CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites and unpacked in a dedicated directory. The CPAN module also supports the concept of named and versioned bundles of modules. Bundles simplify the handling of sets of related modules. [Less]

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  1 review  |  271 users  |  21,261 lines of code  |  7 current contributors  |  Analyzed 4 days ago
 
 

Nagios (formerly Netsaint) is a daemon written in C that is designed to monitor networked hosts and services. It has the ability to notify contacts (via email, pager or other methods) when problems arise and are resolved. Host and service checks are performed by external "plugins", making ... [More] it easy to write custom checks in your language of choice. Several CGIs are included in order to allow you to view the current and historical status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is also provided to allow you to acknowledge problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

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  0 reviews  |  255 users  |  226,976 lines of code  |  4 current contributors  |  Analyzed 4 days ago
 
 

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and ... [More] files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

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  2 reviews  |  105 users  |  323,870 lines of code  |  122 current contributors  |  Analyzed 2 days ago
 
 

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or ... [More] remotely. Webmin respects comments and configuration file order, is easy to install, includes dozens of translations, and runs on most Operating Systems. [Less]

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  0 reviews  |  100 users  |  413,151 lines of code  |  8 current contributors  |  Analyzed 3 days ago
 
 

The NET-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) package contains various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, a version of the unix 'netstat' ... [More] command using SNMP and a Tk/perl mib browser. It was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation (version 2.1.2.1), but has been greatly enhanced, ported and fixed and barely resembles the original package anymore. [Less]

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  0 reviews  |  69 users  |  381,469 lines of code  |  25 current contributors  |  Analyzed 9 days ago
 
 

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful casual actions in error situations.

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  2 reviews  |  64 users  |  26,658 lines of code  |  0 current contributors  |  Analyzed 6 days ago
 
 

Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick and easy administration. It can be used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning ... [More] , availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk. [Less]

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  3 reviews  |  47 users  |  234,616 lines of code  |  14 current contributors  |  Analyzed 6 months ago
 
 
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Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

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  0 reviews  |  46 users  |  88,258 lines of code  |  103 current contributors  |  Analyzed 9 days ago
 
 
 
 

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