last updated: 09 April 2010

Within are several software utilities written by Kurt Carlson at the University of Alaska and the Arctic Region Super Computing Center. There are periodic updates and corrections to this software, it is provided "as is". Except as stated the software has been in production use on Tru64/OSF1/Digital Unix (v3.2g-v4.0d), SGI Irix (6.2-6.5), Cray Unicos (10.0) and Unicos/mk (2.0.5+) and Unicos/MP (2.1-3.0), NEC SuperUX (12.1), Solaris (SunOS 5.8, 5.10), Linux (various: SLES 10, RHEL 5, ...), AIX (4.3-5.3), Mac OSX (Darwin), and cygwin (Windows).

Questions, comments, bug reports can be directed to kurt.carlson@alaska.edu. Overview README files and change logs are in the doc sub-directory. Some previous distribution kits are in the old sub-directory. There are html copies of the man pages in the man sub-directory.

Packages

• uals - enhanced ls

      Kit: uals.tgz (symlink)
  Changes: doc/ChangeLog_uals.txt
  Install: configure and make ("Extras" make but do not auto install)
  

  • uals - enhanced ls (extended from GNU fileutils-3.12 version)

• uak - general utilities and routines

      Kit: uak.tgz (symlink)
  Changes: doc/ChangeLog_uak.txt
  Install: configure and make ("Extras" make but do not auto install)
  

  Accounting and logins:

  • uaps - reports process trees
  • uaklogin - reports terminal information (utmp) and associated process trees (ps)
  • uakpacct - an enhanced filter utility for accounting files (pacct)

  Base Tools:

  • uakce - simple column editor
  • uafdump - file dump (ascii or ebcdic interpretation)
  • ua_date - date subtraction and reformatting
  • uakid - obtain login information
  • uawhich - enhanced which (whence)
  • rpmchk - compare 'rpm -qa' files
  • modchk - compare 'module avail' files

  Scripts:

  • ckbko - check for backout in [../]old|backout
  • mkbko - make backout in [../]old|backout
  • df-h - platform generic 'df -h'
  • cksumnode - compare file sum between nodes

  Extras (some do not install by default):

  • usemem - memory (over)-allocater
  • iotest - read|write IO timing/testing
  • cfsanity - validate ARSC chk_sanity_Files against *Files.long
  • sik - vendor response kit (aka, shakespearian insult kit)
  • sudoku - sudoku puzzle solver (more info)

  • xt_stats - downtime statistics from xtresponds.log
  • ibmlslpp - compare IBM AIX 'lslpp -Lc' output files
  • pkg_list - compare ARSC /usr/local[/pkg] lists
  • lockit - basic terminal locking program
  • loan - loan or mortgage repayment calculation

  Library:

  • libcci.a - routines used by uak, uaio, etc.

  uak/Obsolesced.tar.gz (these should still work, but not converted to configure. A Makefile is provided [as is]):

  • sgiprods - compare SGI/IRIX showprods output files
  • uakdf - column based diff command
  • uakebcpd - ebcdic and packed decimal conversion
  • ibmlabel - read an ebcdic ibm tape label file
  • whois - example 'whois' (not supplied with Irix)
  • Various Cray Unicos[/mk] accounting maintenance scripts and examples.

• uaio - enhanced iostat and other utilities (these programs are specific to Tru64/Digital Unix)
  UA_DUtools - combined kit (uaio and older uakpacct, uals, uak)

     Kits: uaio-v5.11.tar.gz and old/UA_DUtools-v2.7.tar.gz
  Changes: doc/ChangeLog_uaio.txt and UA_DUtools.txt
  Install: ua_make.ksh (script)
  

  • uaio - enhanced iostat (hsz support, summary, replay, ...)
  • uashodev - show devices
  • ua_uerf - uerf report reformating and summary
  • uafuser - wrapper program for fuser(2)
  • ua_oraio - summarize oracle tablespace io rates
  • uakmknod - generates mknod comands for Tru64 v4.0
  • sample data collection scrips
  • sample audit server setup

  • UA_DUtools contains versions (not current) of uakpacct (v3.8), uals (v2.8), uak (v3.0), and uaio (v2.4) as well as some additional Digital Unix specific management scripts and documentation.

The uak and uals kits are being updated for the platforms I actively work on (2008-11: Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX, cygwin; previously: AIX, Irix, Super-UX, Tru64, ...) and may get re-tested and rebuilt elsewhere as time and resources permit.

I have (briefly) reviewed the current gnu coreutils-5.96 ls and saw no enhancements except possibly color appropriate for inclusion in uals. The source for ls and uals are greatly diverged, but I may one day motivate to migrate the uals enhancements back into gnu ls after I jump the hurdle of learning the gnu development infrastructure.

Have fun.