Some additionnal little packages I rather have for the 2.0 Release

Mickaël Suzenne <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:09:52 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.freesbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi everybody,
 
 I think I'm not the only sysadmin that use FreesBIE in aim to make my everyday job more convenient (FreesBIE has a place in my toolbox where there is also other liveCD : Knoppix and BartPE)
 
 As the release 2.0 is pointing out (I'm currently testing the 2.0 RC1), I think some little packages would be needed for me and for others :
 
 - netcat or socat (the latter prefered as it offers fairly more possibilities) for  automating firewall rules testing or doing imaging through the network with dd (yes, I know : PartImage ... Hmm ... by the way, it would be great to have it too)
 
 - netwox (the must have definitely to debug all sort of situations : DNS, DHCP, ARP, TCP, UDP  ... )
 
 - scotty for some sort of SNMP monitoring (with Tkined)
 
 - Expect  (yes, I'm  an unconditionnal of TCL. I know there's PERL, Python, Ruby, ... but I've began sysadmin'ing with TCL, so ... ). But if socat is there, Expect will be less needed (as socat can wrap a process into a pseudo tty, usefull when scripting ssh or FTP clients as they're asking for password)
 
 Do you all think these tools would have their place on the 2.0 final release ?
 
 Cheers
 Mickaël
 
 		
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