Tools for Mastodon Linux

This is the Mastodon installer loadandgo (curses interface, and using BSD curses to squeeze itself down to the point where a kernel, lkms, and the installer can fit onto a 1.44mb floppy disk), admintool, the X configurator, the rc.d subsystems, a collection of utilities that I wrote myself, and a few other useful utilities from various sources.

addpath
modify your $PATH
csplit
break a file down into smaller chunks
daemon
runs a program as a daemon, restarting it whenever it exits
dbm
create and manupulate ndbm databases
df
Show free disk space or inodes
false
return unsuccessfully
free
Show used/free memory or swap
getty
initialize tty line, call login. This one will set the terminal erase character if it spots either a DEL or BACKSPACE.
go
Runs a job in the background (a'la batch) and reports back to the caller when it’s done.
hostname
print or set the computer’s hostname
makehole
shrink a file by seeking over null space
md5sum
generate md5 checksums for files.
nl
number lines
pidof
returns the process ID(s) of a named process
play
Regulates access to system games
readlink
print what a symlink points to
stfu
Don’t echo kernel log messages to the console
sync
Force unwritten buffers to disk
true
return successfully
uname
print information about the system
update
periodically force unwritten buffers to disk
whoami/id/groups
print information about the current user

Source Code

The following releases are available (I don’t have much revision history prior to INST0063 because I foolishly didn’t put the Mastodon version number into revision control.)