Free configured to software for linux

Dconf is a tool to collect a systems hardware and software configuration. Dconf allows you to take your system configuration with you and compare systems (like nodes in a cluster) to troubleshoot hardware or software problems.
It can also be configured to send out configuration changes at given intervals to a group of people, or store a new snapshot when system changes happen.
Main features:
- Stores both hardware and software configuration in a single file
- Only considers files that are not the default (compares with rpmdb if possible)
- Allows to compare different systems in real-time
- Allows to take configuration of systems with you to customers
- Makes it easier to manage systems as a group
- Can send out mails when changes have happened
- Allows to roll back changes or associate problems with changes
Enhancements:
- Improvements to syslog logging.
- The proprietary software configuration sections have been moved together.
- netiq and iproute2 sections have been added.

Linux Firewall is a robust, well-designed firewall for Linux 2.4 based on netfilter/iptables. The Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall is the swiss army knife of Linux firewall software. Based on the netfilter-iptables tools, the firewall is a single shell executable written in bash with configuration options and basic documentation included in the same file. It is designed for use with all types of systems: workstations, routers, and servers, and includes advanced features for expert users and Internet Service Providers.

Here are some installation tips:

1. Download the latest rc.firewall [wget http://projectfiles.com/firewall/rc.firewall]
2. Edit the options at the beginning of the file with your favorite text editor. The script comes pre-configured to deny all incoming connections. This is suitable for a typical workstation installation. Refer to the configuration page for in depth explanation of available options.
3. Make the script executable [chmod +x ./rc.firewall]
4. Become root [su]
5. Run the script [./rc.firewall]
6. After you verify that the firewall runs without errors, you may want it to be run automatically on boot. To accomplish this, move the script to the appropriate startup script directory for your distribution [/etc/rc.d/ for Slackware, /etc/init.d/ for Gentoo] and add the following lines in your startup scripts at some point after your ethernet interfaces are configured [for example /etc/rc.d/rc.local for Slackware, and /etc/conf.d/local.start for Gentoo].

Slackware
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
fi
Gentoo
if [ -x /etc/init.d/rc.firewall ]; then
/etc/init.d/rc.firewall
fi

See forum for alternate installation methods.
7. If you are using this firewall on a machine to which you do not have physical access, but can reboot remotely (for example a collocated server or a Linux router at a computer illiterate friends house), you might want to think about putting in a short delay between the time the machine boots and the initialization of the firewall. This would give you a chance to log in and disable the firewall [chmod -x] if something goes wrong. A good example might be if you have the script configured to allow you to connect from a specific remote IP address and your address changes. If you choose to implement this idea, it can be done with the following code in rc.local:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
sleep 30 && /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall | logger -t rc.firewall &
echo "Firewall init in 30 seconds. Check syslog for results."
fi

Redirex is a small, lightweight Perl server which intercepts HTTP requests sent to the old address and redirects them to the sites new home. Handy when you change the IP address of a Web server and discover that, months later, requests still rain in from search engines and other sites which have linked to the absolute IP address rather than your site name.

There are few better ways to appreciate the breadth of the Web and the depth of its content as to move a Web server from one machine to another with a different IP address. Whatever the reason motivating the change, youll quickly discover that requests continue to rain onto the obsolete server, diminishing ever so slowly only as other webmasters discover and correct broken links to your site, and search engines eventually discover the change and re-index your site at its new location. Redirex is a utility which can smooth the transition of a Web site from one server to another, both for users of the site and its administrators. Redirex is a Perl program which receives requests at the address of the old server and responds with HTTP "redirect" (301 status code) replies indicating the new servers name.

To install and configure Redirex, you have to do the following steps:

1. Download the Redirex source archive and extract its contents into a new directory. The archive contains redirex, the main Perl script and redirex.conf, its configuration file.

2. Edit redirex.conf and set the configuration variables appropriately for your application. The configuration variables are discussed in detail below.

3. (Optional) Test Redirex by running it on a user port (for example, 9080), then accessing it from your Web browser with a URL like: "http://my.hostname.net:9080/whatever.html". Verify that the request was redirected as specified by the configuration file.

4. Install Redirex on the old server, configured to listen to the port (usually 80) on which that server used to accept HTTP requests. If the old server no longer exists, configure a different machine to respond to the old servers IP address, perhaps using "IP aliases" or "logical interfaces" to make an existing machine respond to the old servers address. This is discussed in more detail below in the "Virtual Host Setup" section.

5. Verify that Redirex is correctly redirecting requests to the old server and writing log items to the configured file.

X-Files is a graphical file management program for Unix/X-Window environment. It was inspired by the Amiga program DirWork.

This application differs slightly from the main stream file managers in that it has always only one window. On top (or bottom) of the window you have ActionbuttonsTM -area. Other main areas are the two directory listings for file related actions. You can use quick pop-up menu for basic operations. File extensions can be configured to launch any program you desire for that file.
The appearance and functionality can be fully configured according to your taste using the built-in editors.

Tested on: Intel Linux, DEC Alpha, SGI, HP-UX, Solaris
(Should work on any Unix-machine running Tcl/Tk.)

ifplugd is a Linux daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled.
Installation:
As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run ./configure inside the distribution directory for configuring the source tree. After that you should run make for compilation and make install (as root) for installation of ifplugd.
The installation scripts create an init script in ${sysconfdir}/init.d/ifplugd, however no /etc/rc?.d/ links are created for it.
This is useful on laptops with onboard network adapters, since it will only configure the interface when a cable is really connected.
Main features:
- Uses your distributions native ifup/ifdown programs.
- May beep when the cable is unplugged, plugged, the interface configuration succeeded or failed.
- Supports the Linux SIOCETHTOOL (newer, aka ethtool API), SIOCGMIIREG (older, aka mii-diag/mii-tool API) and SIOCDEVPRIVATE (oldest, aka mii-tool API) ioctl()s for getting link status. Release 0.24 introduces support for link detection with the IFF_RUNNING interface flag.
- Syslog support
- Small program - the binary is just 25 KB (plus 16 KB for libdaemon).
- Multiple ethernet interface support
- Can be configured to ignore short "unplugged" periods (-d option) or short "plugged" periods(-u option)
- Support for wireless networking. Whenever an association to an AP is detected the network is configured. Have a look on waproamd if you need a facility to configure WEP keys before AP associations succeed.
- Compatibility mode for network devices which do not support cable detection (-F option)

multicolumn is a Firefox extension that sllows web pages to be configured to display in multiple columns using Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8) CSS property -moz-column-count, inspired by the draft CSS3 module: Multi-column layout. Make better use of high res screen real estate.

To see it in operation, install it, restart firefox, and then try visiting digg, slashdot, or google (for google, you need to do a search before youll see anything).

To change the number of columns to suit your screen or to configure it for another site, go into the settings tab (thin strip at the top of the browser window - click "more previews" above too see this highlighted on a screenshot).

Note that the tabs will only appear on sites which are configured (eg digg, slashdot, google).

To stop this extension from affecting a particular website, uncheck the relevant checkbox on the settings tab.

Further documentation is available on the settings tab.

pDonkeyS is Perl implementation of an eDonkey server. The main goal of the server is to provide framework for further eDonkey protocol exploration, but it could be useful in testing of client software, since the server can be configured to output very detailed debugging info about eDonkey traffic.

This server was made to provide framework for further eDonkey protocol exploration, but it could be usefull in testing of client software, since the server can be configured to output very detailed debug info about eDonkey traffic.