Big Bag'o'utilities

All utilities listed below are command line utilities; install them using apt-get install or aptitude.

• apticron checks your system daily, and mails you when there are updates for packages
• ccze can "colorize" output, e.g. tail -f /var/log/syslog | ccze
• ethtool can change settings for ethernet cards, like speed and duplex
• ipcalc is an IP address/mask calculator
• ( iproute helps viewing and setting the IP configuration - under Lenny it's installed by default, under Etch you'll have to do it yourself)
• iptraf is an IP traffic monitor
• less is a utility to view text files;
• lsof can show all open files
• multitail can follow multiple (log)files in one terminal
• pwgen is a password generator
• sudo enables you to execute commands with another user's credentials
• tcpdump is a network sniffer
• pciutils contains the lspci command, which can be useful to review your hardware

The following are compression and archiving tools:

• arj is a tool for the .arj file format
• bzip2 is for .bz2 files
• p7zip is for .7z archives
• unzip is for the .zip file format
• xz-utils is a toolkit for LZ/M compression; adding it will make tar understand .xz files
• zoo is for the .zoo file format