System-Tools – basic system management tools

System-Tools is a collection of helpful tools for basic system management of Linux and FreeBSD systems.

Key Features

• System-Info (display banners and system information),
• System-Maintenance (run basic system maintenance tasks),
• Reset-Machine-ID (reset the machine identity state, particularly for a cloned VM),
• Print-UTF8 (print UTF-8 text with options for centering, adjusting, etc.),
• Text-Block (flexible tool for inserting, replacing or removing text blocks in files or streams),
• Fingerprint-SSH-Keys (show the machine’s SSH public key fingerprints in different formats),
• Configure-Grub (configure options for the GRUB boot loader),
• Try-Hard (run a command, with configurable retries on failure),
• Random-Sleep (wait for random time span, with support of fractional seconds).
• X.509-Tools (tools for viewing, verifying and testing X.509 certificates),

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/dreibh/system-tools
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Developer: Thomas Dreibholz
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

System-Tools is written in Shell, Python, and C. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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