Re: [PLUG] Useful distro-specific utilities that shouldn't be distro-spe

Re: [PLUG] Useful distro-specific utilities that shouldn't be distro-specific

I found fpaste to be a great utility (which is primarily in Fedora). Better than most cli pastebin utilities. I liked it so much that I uploaded it to my github page so that I can use it on Ubuntu (yes, I know about pastebinit) and other distros.

A highly useful function of fpaste is
> fpaste --sysinfo

It provides a nice summary of normal information when diagnosing a system or reaching out for help. Here's a copy of it for your purposes; it is highly portable for other distros since it is written in Python.
https://github.com/sag47/drexel-university/blob/master/bin/fpaste

I liked it so much that I ported to work with lodgeit (https://bitbucket.org/EnTeQuAk/lodgeit-main) which is a personal pastebin. Here's that utility called dpaste.
https://github.com/sag47/lodgeit/blob/master/scripts/dpaste

I will commit that to the upstream when I'm finally done working with it.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

I was just following gentoo-dev and noticed a mention of a useful
utility called lddtree which offers friendlier output formats than ldd
and a few more options (useful for scripting). It is provided by a
package called pax-utils, and looking at some of the other programs in
this package like scanelf and dumpelf it struck me that this is really
something that isn't distro-specific and which would be useful
elsewhere.

We also have debian-utils which obviously came from Debian, and
includes utilities like run-parts and and tempfile.

That got me thinking - how many scripts/tools/etc are floating around
in distro-specific packages that really are things that would be
useful to know about in case people want to grab them and use them for
their own purposes on their own distros. You don't have to run Gentoo
to benefit from a generic ELF parser.

If anybody has similar tools they'd like to toss out in this thread
I'd be interested in hearing about them. Who knows - this might even
be a good topic for a meeting...

Rich
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