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Recommended tools
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This page is intended to list system administration related tools recommended for use in a shell (terminal/console) environment. See Recommended applications for other software.
Note
This is intended as a "best of kind" list. Use eix to search for all packages available on Gentoo.
This is intended as a "best of kind" list. Use eix to search for all packages available on Gentoo.
Hardware
- app-admin/pydf
- Enhanced df (disk free) tool, which uses colors and a semi-graphical representation of disk usage.
- sys-fs/ncdu
- Ncurses-based disk usage tool, with easy navigation through the filesystem tree to see du results.
- sys-power/acpi
- Attempts to replicate the functionality of the 'old' apm command on ACPI systems.
- sys-power/acpitool
- A Linux ACPI client, allowing you to query or set ACPI values. It provides informations on battery status, AC adapter presence, thermal reading, etc.
- sys-process/atop
- Resource-specific view of processes.
- sys-process/htop
- Interactive process viewer (improved alternative for top), with easy function-keys for process management.
- sys-process/iotop
- Simple top like I/O monitor.
- sys-process/lsof
- Lists open files for running Unix processes.
Network
- net-analyzer/iftop
- Display bandwidth usage on an interface.
- net-analyzer/iptraf-ng
- Console-based network monitoring utility.
- net-analyzer/lft
- Layer Four Traceroute: An advanced traceroute implementation.
- net-analyzer/nload
- Console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time.
- net-analyzer/vnstat
- Network traffic monitoring.
- net-analyzer/xprobe
- Active OS fingerprinting tool. This is Xprobe2.
- net-analyzer/yersinia
- A FrameWork for layer 2 protocol attacks. Working on DHCP, STP, IEEE 802.1q and also some other Cisco proprietary network protocols.
- net-wireless/wavemon
- Ncurses based monitor for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
File management
- app-misc/mc
- GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager.
- app-misc/vifm
- Console file manager with vi(m)-like keybindings. Offers familiar navigation for vim junkies.
Shell environment
- sys-apps/most
- Enhanced pager (alternative to more and less) with colored highlighting. Also consider emerging app-editors/vim with
USE=vim-pager. - app-misc/grc
- A generic colouriser that beautifies system log files or command output.
- app-text/wgetpaste
- Command-line interface to various pastebin-like websites.
- app-misc/rlwrap
- Readline wrapper.
- x11-misc/xclip
- Command-line interface to X selections (clipboard).
Others
- app-admin/pass
- Stores, retrieves, generates, and synchronizes passwords securely using gpg, pwgen, and git.
- app-admin/whowatch
- Interactive who-like program that displays information about users currently logged on in real time.
- app-misc/dvtm
- Dynamic virtual terminal manager.
- dev-util/vbindiff
- Visual diffing tool for binary files.
- dev-db/mytop
- A top clone for mysql
- Note
A customized mytop is included in >=dev-db/mariadb-5.3