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Software - helper-scripts

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| Software | Linux | Legacy |

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helper-scripts is a set packages that contain scripts that I like to have installed on all of my Debian-based systems.  I keep them in my repository as a convenience to me, but I thought I'd post about them anyway in case they might be useful to someone else.  Currently, helper-scripts generates 4 binary packages that contain:

debian-helper-scripts

These are just a few scripts that I always install on my Debian systems.  See their respective man pages for more information.

• courierpw - change a userdb password for the Courier IMAP daemon
• psp - report status of a specific process by name
• service - invoke scripts in /etc/init.d
• sources - quickly change between apt source files
• system-health - monitor and report a system's health
• system-update - update a Debian system automatically

ubuntu-helper-scripts

This is the same set as debian-helper-scripts but without the "service" script since it is included with sysvinit-utils in Ubuntu.  As of Ubuntu 8.04, sysvinit-utils "conflicts" with debian-helper-scripts, preventing its installation.

subversion-helper-scripts

These are just a few scripts that I use to help me interface to my subversion repositories from various locations and to maintain them on the server.  I hate dealing with the goofy subversion URI syntax and these scripts abstract it away nicely when you are only dealing with one server.

• sco - subversion check out by repository name and project
• svn-dump - dump a repository to a flat text file
• svn-export - export a project
• svn-fixperm - repair file permissions on a repository
• svn-import - import a project
• svn-load - load a dumped repository