Free tools to software for linux

QA Tools allow you to automatically generate regular releases and/or snapshots of your product. Your product can be distributed as a source code archive (typically .tar.gz) or as a binary distribution archive (.deb, .rpm, .exe).
QA Tools can be used to generate nighly-built source and binary packages suitable for continuous integration and testing.
QA Tools can handle very simple product dependencies (read: in order to build/package product A you first need to build/package product B).
QA Tools work currently with the software packages that have source code managed using Subversion and that are ./configured && make installed using autoconf/automake.
QA Tools can help the people who are developing set of dependent crossplatform products that need to be packaged for different distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Suse, Windows, ...).
You should be familiar with autoconf/automake (particulary `make dist), RPM package building, and DEB package building. You should know how to store source code in SVN (trunk, branches, tags). QA Tools will not do any of those for you, but will help you to automate certain things and consume less time doing them.
Enhancements:
- Fix swapped function calls in svn-release-{deb,rpm}

xen-tools project is a collection of scripts which allow you to manipulate virtual images for the Xen virtualization software.
With the tools installed, you may create new instances of Debian, complete with networking, OpenSSH, and user accounts, with one simple command. Images may also be easily updated, listed, or deleted.
Main features:
- Create new Xen instances of Debian Sarge, in minutes. (xen-create-image)
- Duplicate an existing image, whilst updating the networking information. (xen-duplicate-image)
- List all existing images with their networking details (xen-list-images)
- Delete previously created instances. (xen-delete-image)
- Update the images youve created with apt-get, without booting them. (xen-update-image)
Creating A New Image:
The script will contains a full manual written using the perl documentation system, perldoc, which you can read by executing:
xen-create-image --manual
This manual describes the operation of the script, and the supported options. (Each of the available options may be setup in a configuration file for ease of use.)
As a very simple example the following command willcreate an image using DHCP to obtain its networking information. The primary disk will 2Gb with 128Mb memory and swap:
xen-create-image --hostname=vm01 --dir=/home/xen
--size=2Gb --swap=128Mb --memory=128Mb --dhcp
If you wish to give the instance a static IP address then provide the information with the following flags:
--ip
The IP address to give the instance.
--gateway
The IP address of the gateway machine.
--broadcast
The broadcast address to use.
--network
The network the image is upon.
--netmask
The netmask to use.
Enhancements:
- This release supports the installation of RPM-based distributions via the external rinse tool, which is more reliable than the rpmstrap utility.
- New guests will now have a random MAC address generated by default, to avoid issues with udev, and several other minor bugfixes were applied.

Web-tools provides various tools which assist in adminstering a server.
Web-tools is a package that contains 15 shell scripts for use in administering UNIX servers. These tools make it easy to add and remove: VirtualHosts on Apache Web server, users on ProFTPD server, and primary/secundary zones on the named DNS server.
Here the scripts provided by "Web tools":
- adddns
- addftp
- addwebservice
- addwww
- chpass
- deldns
- delftp
- delwww
- dnsrecords
- functions
- genuser.pl
- delblanklines
- secundary
- updatezone
- zonecheck

SimpyTools is a collection of various software for using and enhancing the simpy.com social bookmarking service.

Simpy Tools includes libraries in various programming languages for using the REST API of simpy.com. It also includes a Firefox extension and more.

Simple wrapper-lib for accessing the http://www.simpy.com/ REST API via python. See http://simpytools.sourceforge.net for details, and libs in other languages

Synopsis:

# get and store links in files matching a query
client = SimpyClient(user, passwd)
links = client.getLinks( {limit:20, q:+tags:"programming" +tags:"trails"} )
for i, link in enumerate(links):
s = urllib2.urlopen(link.url)
if s is not None: file(str(i)+".html", w+).write(s.read())
else: print "URL "+link.url+" was not handled"

Supported Calls:

GetTags, RemoveTag, RenameTag, MergeTags, SplitTag
GetLinks, SaveLink, DeleteLink
GetWatchlists, GetWatchlist
GetNotes, SaveNote

flow-tools is a set of programs for processing and managing NetFlow exports from Cisco and Juniper routers. The tools included are: flow-capture, flow-cat, flow-dscan, flow-expire, flow-export, flow-fanout, flow-filter, flow-gen, flow-header, flow-import, flow-mask, flow-merge, flow-nfilter, flow-print, flow-receive, flow-report, flow-send, flow-split, flow-stat, flow-tag, and flow-xlate.

Flow data is collected and stored by default in host byte ordera nd the files are portable across every endian architectures.

Commands that utilize the network use a localip/remoteip/port designation for communication. "localip" is the IP address the host will use as a source for sending or bind to when receiving NetFlow PDUs (ie the destination address of the exporter. Configuring the "localip" to 0 will force the kernel to decide what IP address to use for sending and listen on all IP addresses for receiving. "remoteip" is the destination IP address used for sending or the expected address of the source when receiving. If the "remoteip" is 0 then the application will accept flows from any source address. The "port" is the UDP port number used for sending or receiving. When using multicast addresses the localip/remoteip/port is used to represent the source, group, and port respectively.

Flows are exported from a router in a number of different configurable versions. A flow is a collection of key fields and additional data. The flow key is {srcaddr, dstaddr, input, output, srcport, dstport, prot, ToS}. Flow-tools supports one export version per file.

Export versions 1, 5, 6, and 7 all maintain {nexthop, dPkts, dOctets, First, Last, flags}, ie the next-hop IP address, number of packets, number of octets (bytes), start time, end time, and flags such as the TCP header bits. Version 5 adds the additional fields {src_as, dst_as, src_mask, dst_mask}, ie source AS, destination AS, source network mask, and destination network mask. Version 7 which is specific to the Catalyst switches adds in addition to the version 5 fields {router_sc}, which is the Router IP address which populates the flow cache shortcut in the Supervisor. Version 6 which is not officially supported by Cisco adds in addition to the version 5 fields {in_encaps, out_encaps, peer_nexthop}, ie the input and output interface encapsulation size, and the IP address of the next hop within the peer. Version 1 exports do not contain a sequence number and therefore should be avoided, although it is safe to store the data as version 1 if the additional fields are not used.

Version 8 IOS NetFlow is a second level flow cache that reduces the data exported from the router. There are currently 11 formats, all of which provide {dFlows, dOctets, dPkts, First, Last} for the key fields.

8.1 - Source and Destination AS, Input and Output interface
8.2 - Protocol and Port
8.3 - Source Prefix and Input interface
8.4 - Destination Prefix and Output interface
8.5 - Source/Destination Prefix and Input/Output interface
8.9 - 8.1 + ToS
8.10 - 8.2 + ToS
8.11 - 8.3 + ToS
8.12 - 8.5 + ToS
8.13 - 8.2 + ToS
8.14 - 8.3 + ports + ToS

Version 8 CatIOS NetFlow appears to be a less fine grained first level flow cache.

8.6 - Destination IP, ToS, Marked ToS,
8.7 - Source/Destination IP, Input/Output interface, ToS, Marked ToS,
8.8 - Source/Destination IP, Source/Destination Port,
Input/Output interface, ToS, Marked ToS,

The following programs are included in the flow-tools distribution.

flow-capture - Collect, compress, store, and manage disk space for exported flows from a router.
flow-cat - Concatenate flow files. Typically flow files will contain a small window of 5 or 15 minutes of exports. Flow-cat can be used to append files for generating reports that span longer time periods.
flow-fanout - Replicate NetFlow datagrams to unicast or multicast destinations. Flow-fanout is used to facilitate multiple collectors attached to a single router.
flow-report - Generate reports for NetFlow data sets. Reports include source/destination IP pairs, source/destination AS, and top talkers. Over 50 reports are currently supported.
flow-tag - Tag flows based on IP address or AS #. Flow-tag is used to group flows by customer network. The tags can later be used with flow-fanout or flow-report to generate customer based traffic reports.
flow-filter - Filter flows based on any of the export fields. Flow-filter is used in-line with other programs to generate reports based on flows matching filter expressions.
flow-import - Import data from ASCII or cflowd format.
flow-export - Export data to ASCII or cflowd format.
flow-send - Send data over the network using the NetFlow protocol.
flow-receive - Receive exports using the NetFlow protocol without storing to disk like flow-capture.
flow-gen - Generate test data.
flow-dscan - Simple tool for detecting some types of network scanning and Denial of Service attacks.
flow-merge - Merge flow files in chronoligical order.
flow-xlate - Perform translations on some flow fields.
flow-expire - Expire flows using the same policy of flow-capture.
flow-header - Display meta information in flow file.
flow-split - Split flow files into smaller files based on size, time, or tags.

Wyrm Tools is a suite of tools to make your gaming more productive regardless of which rules system you use. More importantly, Wyrm Tools is an RPG tool platform.

While this project anticipates to offer the standard RPG tool fare (such as a character generator and editor), it gives users the flexibility to add their own tools, even to the point of defining their own game systems.

The foundation of Wyrm Tools is the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Wyrm Tools is to be to RPGs what Eclipse is to, well, everything else.

The overall project has progressed to a pre-alpha release. The core platform functionality (i.e. the game system agnostic bits) are mature. Currently, the d20 3.5 game system is being implemented along with a d20 character editor.

The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format used in Microsofts Access database package, and to provide a set of tools and applications to make that data available on other platforms.

Specifically, MDB Tools includes programs to export schema and data to other databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and others.

Also, included is a SQL engine for performing simple SQL queries. The 0.5 release includes an updated GUI interface (screenshot is available here). A sparse but functional ODBC driver is included as well.

MDB Tools currently has read-only support for Access 97 (Jet 3) and Access 2000/2002 (Jet 4) formats. Access 2000 support is a recent addition and may not be as complete as Jet 3 support.

Write support is currently being worked on and the first cut is expected to be included in the 0.6 release.