Free utility software for linux

Sethi Search Utility provides a simple command line utility to submit a search to Google, Yahoo!, or MSN.
Sethi Search Utility is a simple command line utility to submit a search to Google, Yahoo!, or MSN and show the (text) results on standard output. Support for several search engines is included.
Its currently in serious need of a re-write, especially to avoid scraping and become a good engine using the search APIs provided.
Enhancements:
- The Google configuration was updated.

Ingres::Utility::Netutil is an API to netutil Ingres RDBMS utility.

SYNOPSIS

use Ingres::Utility::Netutil;

# create a connection to NETUTIL utility

$netu = Ingres::Utility::Netutil->new();

# Attention: many arguments accept wildcard *

# showLogin($type,$vnode) - prepare to provide info on login VNodes
# and return netutil ouput
print $netu->showLogin(global,*);

#
# getLogin() - return one-by-one all login VNodes previously prepared
while ( ($type, $login, $vnode, $acct) = $netu->getLogin() ) {
print "Type: $typetName: $vnodetAccount: $acctn";
}

# showConn($type, $conn, $vnode, $addr, $proto, $listen)
# - prepare to provide info on connections of a VNode
# and return netutil ouput
print $netu->showConn(global,sample_vnode_name, *, *, *);

#
# getConn() - return one-by-one all connections of a VNodes previously prepared
while ( @conn = $netu->getConn() ) {
($type, $conn, $vnode, $addr, $proto, $listen) = @conn;
print "Type: $typetName: $vnodetAddress: $addrtProtocol: $proto";
print "tListen Address: $listenAddrn";
}

# createLogin($type,$vnode,$acct, $passwd) - create a new VNode
$netu->createLogin(global, new_vnode_name, sample_login_account, secret_passwd);

# createConn($type,$vnode,$addr,$proto,$listenAddr) - create a connection for a VNode
$netu->createConn(global, new_vnode_name, 192.168.0.1, tcp_ip, II);

# destroyConn($type,$vnode,$acct, $passwd) - destroy a connection from a VNode
$netu->destroyConn(global, new_vnode_name, 192.168.0.1, tcp_ip, II);

# destroyLogin($type,$vnode) - destroy a VNode and all connections
$netu->destroyLogin(global, new_vnode_name);

# quiesceServer($serverId) - stop IIGCC server after all connections close (die gracefully)
# if no $serverId is given, then all IIGCC servers are affected (carefull).
$netu->quiesceServer(sample_server_id);

# stopServer($serverId) - stop IIGCC server imediately (break connections)
# if no $serverId is given, then all IIGCC servers are affected (carefull).
$netu->stopServer(sample_server_id);

The server id can be obtained through Ingres::Utility::IINamu module.

This module provides an API to netutil utility for Ingres RDBMS, which provides local control of IIGCC servers for Ingres Net inbound and outbound remote connections, and also manage logins and connections to remote servers, a.k.a. VNodes.

Notes:

Ordinary user can create/destroy on his own private logins and connections.

SECURITY privilege should be granted to have access to other users private entries.

GCA privilege NET_ADMIN (generally a system administrator) needed to manage global type login and connection entries.

GCA privilege SERVER_CONTROL (generally a system administrator) needed to stop a communications server.

Iris is a video conversion utility in C++ that works as a front-end to mencoder. Iris Video Conversion Utility can run in command-line or graphical modes and currently supports conversion to DVD MPEG, DivX AVI and VCD MPEG
This software intends to ease video conversion to common formats.
Help Wanted / TODO
- Cancel button does not always work
- More output formats
- Reset values for command-line format paramater
- re-work stderr redirection
- catch and identify mencoder conditions

Email Administration Utility provides an IMAP-based email account management utility.
The Email Administration Utilities package can be used to manage email accounts with a series of PHP-based scripts through a browser.
Addition, Removal, and modification of accounts is possible as long as an IMAP port is available on the mail server.
The Mailadmin project was originally designed to help owners of domains that were hosted by Hub.Org Networking Services. The company wanted users to be able to create, remove or modify email accounts when ever they wanted, giving them a quicker turnaround for Mail Administration Purposes.
As the utility was developed, tested and matured into what it is today, many users requested more features or contributed reports of issues to help improve the utilities stability. Hub.Org has given me permission to release the utility as an Open Source package so that others may also benifit from the simplicity that the Mailadmin utility offers to those who need complete control over email accounts.
With this in mind, I intend to continue development by adding new features as they are requested and fix any issues that may pop up. The more users who use and test the features that the Mailadmin utility offers will help to improve the functionality offered by Mailadmin. I have opened a Sourceforge account to help manage the development and releases of the utility as it matures into what users and developers see the Mailadmin to be.
Main features:
- Administrator:
- Adding/Deleting Email accounts.
- Setting Account Quotas.
- Obtaining Administrative Access Over Older Accounts.
- Changing An Accounts Password.
- Interfaces with the Cyrus IMAP/POP3 server.
- Transaction Log system, allowing you to track changes or to help debug issues.
- Standard User:
- Changing The Accounts Password.
- In Development:
- Transaction Log system, allowing you to track changes or to help debug issues.

OpenOffice.org Utility Library, or ooolib in short, is actually more than one library module. Included are a Python module (ooolib-python) and a Perl module (ooolib-perl).
The Python module is currently focused on Calc and can be used to create OpenDocument Format Calc spreadsheets.
The Perl module can be used to create simple OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet and Writer text documents. (Note: The files created by ooolib-perl are pre-ODF files.)
Main features:
- Ability to create OpenOffice.org Calc Documents
- Example programs that use the Python Module

WAVE Utilities package contains three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files.
SimplifyWave
The standard permits WAVE format audio files to contain a variety of chunks, such as playlists, cue lists, and padding. A fair amount of software, however, is unable to parse such complex files. This program converts complex WAVE files into the simplest standard-conforming format by stripping out everything other than the obligatory format chunk and the first data chunk. Messages are printed indicating what chunks have been removed.
RepairWave
Some software generates non-conformant files that purport to be WAVE files. They contain a WAVE header but lack the obligatory data chunk id and size information. The audio data immediately follows the header. This program inserts the missing data chunk id and size information and updates the WAVE chunk size information in the header to reflect this.
InfoWave
Extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the contents of the file. It shows the size, type, and location of each chunk and gives the encoding of the audio data, its sampling rate, resolution, number of channels and other information. Typical output looks like this:
0: RIFF identifier.
4: chunk size = 38,642 bytes.
8: WAV identifier.
12: format chunk identifier
16: format chunk size = 18 bytes.
20: data format: PCM.
22: one channel (mono).
24: Sampling Rate = 11,025 samples per second.
28: Average Data Rate = 11,025 bytes per second.
32: Bytes_Per_Sample value of 1 indicates 8-bit mono
34: Bits_Per_Sample = 8.
36: chunk id
40: chunk length
44: chunk of type fact (standard) length 4 bytes
48: chunk id
52: chunk length
56: chunk of type data (standard) length 38,591 bytes
amounting to 0 minutes and 3.5 seconds
These programs were originally called SimplifyWav, wavrepair, and wavinfo.
Enhancements:
- The programs have been adapted to run correctly on 64-bit architectures as well as 32-bit architectures.
- They should now compile on systems whose printf does not support thousands separators.

makeutil is a set of portable public domain programs designed to support C/C++ projects. It provides tools for build operations outside of the normal compile/link pipeline.
It is designed to be unobtrusively included directly in your own software development project.
Here is a brief description of each tool:
- config: choose file based on platform
- ccinfo: name compiler used to compile program
- mksystype: determine operating system
- mkarray: convert input file to C array
- mkstring: convert input line to C string
- armor: convert binary file to ascii
- dearmor: convert encoded ascii file to binary
- textpack: compress files with precompiled frequency table
- textpand: uncompress files with precompiled frequency table
- ckey: create frequency table from input
- extract: extract files from an extract format text archive
- retract: create an extract format text archive
- addcr: add a t before every n
- delcr: delete the r from every rn
- unmake: process include directives in a Makefile