Tools for Mastodon Linux
This is the Mastodon
installer loadandgo (curses interface, and using
BSD curses to
squeeze itself down to the point where a kernel, lkms, and the
installer can fit onto a 1.44mb floppy disk), admintool,
the X configurator, the rc.d subsystems, a collection of utilities
that I wrote myself, and a few other useful utilities from various
sources.
addpath- modify your
$PATH
csplit- break a file down into smaller chunks
daemon- runs a program as a daemon, restarting it whenever it exits
dbm- create and manupulate
ndbm databases
df- Show free disk space or inodes
false- return unsuccessfully
free- Show used/free memory or swap
getty- initialize tty line, call login. This one will set the terminal
erase character if it spots either a DEL or BACKSPACE.
go- Runs a job in the background (a'la
batch) and reports back
to the caller when it’s done.
hostname- print or set the computer’s hostname
makehole- shrink a file by seeking over null space
md5sum- generate
md5 checksums for files.
nl- number lines
pidof- returns the process ID(s) of a named process
play- Regulates access to system games
readlink- print what a symlink points to
stfu- Don’t echo kernel log messages to the console
sync- Force unwritten buffers to disk
true- return successfully
uname- print information about the system
update- periodically force unwritten buffers to disk
whoami/id/groups- print information about the current user
Source Code
The following releases are available (I don’t have much revision
history prior to INST0063 because I foolishly didn’t
put the Mastodon version number into revision control.)