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In addition to VishwaKarma, the GPL Web-hosting Control Panel, the following software is available for download from this site:
Hinv for Linux was originally written by Larry McVoy; Larry is currently at lm@bitmover.com. I'm maintaining the script at the moment. Sample hinv output looks like this (no, that's not my system :-)
i586 ~ hinv
Main memory size: 255 Mbytes
1 GenuineIntel 00/07 processor
2 16550A serial ports
1 National Semiconductor PC87306 floppy controller
1 1.44M floppy drive
1 vga+ graphics device
1 parallel port:
lp0: base 0x378, no irq, no dma, modes SPP,ECP,ECPPS2
1 IDE device:
/dev/hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
1 ethernet interface
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet
1 SCSI disk
IBM DNES-309170Y
ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M6
Sound devices:
1 Audio device
MAD16 WSS (82C930) (DUPLEX)
1 MIDI device
Mad16/Mozart
1 Timer
System clock
1 Mixer
MAD16 WSS (82C930)
PCI bus devices:
Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 5).
SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c810 (rev 35).
VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 (rev 35).
PIC: Intel Unknown device (rev 0).
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
Host bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 3).
Host bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 2).
Host bridge: Intel Unknown device (rev 2).
SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c896 (rev 1).
SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c896 (rev 1).
The latest version of hinv for Linux is 1.4pre2 (released Sat Sep 11 09:14:24 IST 1999). Earlier versions: Note; Running hinv with perl -w will cause 3 (or maybe more) warnings from Perl about "printf interpreted as a function...". These are Perl problems and I'm unwilling to change my coding style to conform to a buggy parser :-) If you don't want to see the warnings, remove the spaces around the opening "(" following the "printf" on the offending lines. The pre1 release still has some problems in counting number of CPU's. Please send me output of cat /proc/cpuinfo and hinv if you face this. In general, when reporting errors or bugfixes, please do send me the hinv and kernel versions you are using, the output of the dmesg command, and the contents of any relevant file in /proc which may be causing the problem.
Gmemusage is another IRIX tool. As per the manual
entry in IRIX, gmemusage is a ``graphical memory
usage viewer''. I'd received a request for a similar tool on Linux so I
got my Xemacs open and came up with something which can be mistaken for gmemusage
-- as long as you don't open your eyes too wide :-)
The mini-screenshot above is clickable (sorry, Lynx users!) to get the full thing. Gmemusage has shifted to SourceForge
Dialing out to your service provider in Linux isn't exactly the easiest thing for many people to setup, so here's a couple of programs which will do it for you. Main features are:
I made these scripts to help a friend out for accessing VSNL but they should work without major modification on any ISP (subject to the conditions given above). The scripts aren't particularly sophisticated but they do their work -- I've been using them for an year now. How to install (all this must be done as root on your system!):
If you want to use PAP authentication (and most ISP's seem to want it), add a line to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets containing your username and password. For example, if your username is ``user'' and your password is ``pass'', try the following:
echo "user^V<TAB>*^V<TAB>pass" >> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
chown root /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
chmod 600 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
(You will need to press ^V followed by the <TAB> key to get a literal <TAB> character in most Linux shells.)
I wrote this program to benchmark sendmail vs qmail on an SGI system at a clients request. Needless to say (?), qmail came out the winner by a fairly large margin :-) Download sm.c. |