Some helpful Linux software¶

Network¶

Some tools which could be helpful in network and system troubleshooting

• driftnet - Picks out and displays images from network traffic

• ettercap - Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN

• netcat - TCP/IP swiss army knife

• arping - sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address)

• mtr - Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool

• nmap - The Network Mapper

• wireshark - network traffic analyzer - GTK+ version

• tshark - network traffic analyzer - console version

• tcpdump - A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition + manual

• arptools - arp scanning and fingerprinting tools

• iptraf - Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor

• p0f - Passive OS fingerprinting tool

• tcpreplay - Tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds

• ngrep - grep for network traffic

• netsed - The network packet altering stream editor

• InTrace - Traceroute-like application that enables users to enumerate IP hops. It could be useful for network reconnaissance and firewall bypassing.

• nload - A realtime console network usage monitor

System¶

Some tools which may be helpfull to deal with hardware/security

• sysstat - sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux

• isag - Interactive System Activity Grapher for sysstat

• ccze - A robust, modular log coloriser

• lsof - List open files, pipes, sockets, etc.

• collectd - statistics collection and monitoring daemon

• hddtemp - hard drive temperature monitoring utility

• iotop - simple top-like I/O monitor

• htop - interactive processes viewer

• beep - advanced pc-speaker beeper

Database management¶

• mtop - MySQL terminal based query monitor

• mytop - top like query monitor for MySQL

• ptop - PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool akin to top

Did I missed some software which may be helpfull?

Gentoo stuff :P¶

If you’re working on Gentoo box you should think about:

• portage-utils - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-utils.xml

• gentoolkit - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml

Disable buzzer¶

# in ~/.bashrc
setterm -blength 0

Did I missed something?

If there is some cool stuff that I could need, please write it in comments below.