Slay is a simple yet very handy shell script that kills all of the processes belonging to a specific user and displays an (optional) “Your current session has been terminated.” to the user being booted. Very useful if you want to harm somebody.
[ http://freshmeat.net/projects/slay/ ]

pdumpfs is a simple daily backup system similar to Plan9’s dumpfs which preserves every daily snapshot. pdumpfs is written in Ruby. You can access the past snapshots at any time for retrieving a certain day’s file. Let’s backup your home directory with pdumpfs!
pdumpfs constructs the snapshot YYYY/MM/DD in the destination directory. All source files are [...]

Today I bumped into this interesting perl script password cracker from the guys over at linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com. This works by using perl’s built in crypt function to guess password in an attempt to crack them. A word list is required for this to work.

Calling up the script is simple as executing any perl script (./pwdcheck). We [...]

Apachetop is a curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc. Apachetop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.
[ http://www.webta.org/projects/apachetop/ ]
Apachetop [...]