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		<title>Listing USB devices on Fedora 7</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[lsusb command can list all usb devices found, I had Fedora core 7(moonshine) installed and i did not find the command,
I had to install usbutils which brings the command:
[root@linuxbox ~]# yum -y install usbutilsInstalled: usbutils.i386 0:0.71-2.1Complete!
[root@linuxbox ~]# lsusbBus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unixdesk.wordpress.com&blog=1036924&post=241&subd=unixdesk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>lsusb command can list all usb devices found, <br />I had Fedora core 7(moonshine) installed and i did not find the command,</p>
<p>I had to install usbutils which brings the command:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">[root@linuxbox ~]# yum -y install usbutils</span><br />Installed: usbutils.i386 0:0.71-2.1<br />Complete!</p>
<p>[root@linuxbox ~]# lsusb<br />Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br />Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br />Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br />Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br />Bus 001 Device 004: ID 07a6:8511 ADMtek, Inc. ADM8511 Pegasus II Ethernet<br />Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a Optical Wheel Mouse</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">[root@linuxbox ~]# lsusb -d 07a6:8511 -v  </span> &lt;&#8212; gives details<br />Bus 001 Device 004: ID 07a6:8511 ADMtek, Inc. ADM8511 Pegasus II Ethernet<br />Device Descriptor:<br />  bLength                18<br />  bDescriptorType         1<br />  bcdUSB               1.10<br />  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)<br />  bDeviceSubClass         0<br />  bDeviceProtocol         0<br />  bMaxPacketSize0         8<br />  idVendor           0&#215;07a6 ADMtek, Inc.<br />  idProduct          0&#215;8511 ADM8511 Pegasus II Ethernet<br />  bcdDevice            1.01<br />  iManufacturer           1 ADMtek<br />  iProduct                2 USB To LAN Converter<br />  iSerial                 3 0001<br />  bNumConfigurations      1<br />  Configuration Descriptor:<br />    bLength                 9<br />    bDescriptorType         2<br />    wTotalLength           39<br />    bNumInterfaces          1<br />    bConfigurationValue     1<br />    iConfiguration          0<br />    bmAttributes         0xa0<br />      Remote Wakeup<br />    MaxPower              160mA<br />    Interface Descriptor:<br />      bLength                 9<br />      bDescriptorType         4<br />      bInterfaceNumber        0<br />      bAlternateSetting       0<br />      bNumEndpoints           3<br />      bInterfaceClass         0 (Defined at Interface level)<br />      bInterfaceSubClass      0<br />      bInterfaceProtocol      0<br />      iInterface              0<br />      Endpoint Descriptor:<br />        bLength                 7<br />        bDescriptorType         5<br />        bEndpointAddress     0&#215;81  EP 1 IN<br />        bmAttributes            2<br />          Transfer Type            Bulk<br />          Synch Type               None<br />          Usage Type               Data<br />        wMaxPacketSize     0&#215;0040  1x 64 bytes<br />        bInterval               0<br />      Endpoint Descriptor:<br />        bLength                 7<br />        bDescriptorType         5<br />        bEndpointAddress     0&#215;02  EP 2 OUT<br />        bmAttributes            2<br />          Transfer Type            Bulk<br />          Synch Type               None<br />          Usage Type               Data<br />        wMaxPacketSize     0&#215;0040  1x 64 bytes<br />        bInterval               0<br />      Endpoint Descriptor:<br />        bLength                 7<br />        bDescriptorType         5<br />        bEndpointAddress     0&#215;83  EP 3 IN<br />        bmAttributes            3<br />          Transfer Type            Interrupt<br />          Synch Type               None<br />          Usage Type               Data<br />        wMaxPacketSize     0&#215;0008  1x 8 bytes<br />        bInterval               1</p>
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		<title>Linux Utilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Systat
The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unixdesk.wordpress.com&blog=1036924&post=116&subd=unixdesk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"><strong>Systat</strong></p>
<p>The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.</p>
<p><strong>Re-Tail</strong></p>
<p>Re-Tail is a command line program which is intended as an intelligent incremental logfile reader. It will read a file or group of files given on the command line, and output any changes since last time it read the file(s).<br /></span><a href="http://xjack.org/retail/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://xjack.org/retail/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p></span><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"><strong>Checkservice<br /></strong><br />Checkservice is a Perl script that monitors services on remote hosts<br /></span><a href="http://www.linvision.com/checkservice/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://www.linvision.com/checkservice/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Easy Shape</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Easy Shape&#8221; is a Web-based frontend for managing and graphing traffic and bandwidth flows under Linux.<br /></span><a href="http://www.linuxbox.co.za/software/easyshape/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://www.linuxbox.co.za/software/easyshape/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>autopackage:</strong></p>
<p>Got yourself a .package file and don&#8217;t know what to do? Build packages that will install on many different distros Multiple front ends: best is automatically chosen so GUI users get a graphical front end, and command line users get a text based interface Multiple language support (both in tools and for your own packages) Automatically verifies and resolves dependencies no matter how the software was installed. This means you don&#8217;t have to use Autopackage for all your software, or even any of it, for packages to successfully install.<br /></span><a href="http://autopackage.org/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://autopackage.org/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Openstats</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />OpenStats is an advanced open source platform for providing web traffic analysis.<br /></span><a href="http://www.openstats.net/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://www.openstats.net/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Mtop </strong></p>
<p>(MySQL top) monitors a MySQL database showing the queries which are taking the most amount of time to<br />complete.<br /></span><a href="http://mtop.sourceforge.net/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://mtop.sourceforge.net/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Zabbix</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Zabbix is software that monitors servers and applications. It has Web interface that allows quick and easy administration.Somewhat similar to Nagios<br /></span><a href="http://www.zabbix.com/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://www.zabbix.com/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Maia Mailguard</strong></p>
<p>Maia provides a Web-based front end to configure an anti-spam and anti-virus mail system.<br /></span><a href="http://www.renaissoft.com/projects/maia/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://www.renaissoft.com/projects/maia/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Qmail-Scanner</strong></p>
<p>Qmail-Scanner Statistics uses the Qmail-Scanner Logfile to generate daily, monthly, and yearly statistics. It also shows a complete list of viruses stopped by Qmail-Scanner, the top five domains from which the viruses came, as well as the countries </span><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qss"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://sourceforge.net/projects/qss</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Ghost for Linux:</strong></p>
<p>Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost(c). The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server. The included kernel supports almost every common network interface, ATA and serial-ATA drives. The extended kernel on CD supports SCSI and several 1000 MBit network cards. It comes as 2 boot/root disks or a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI.</p>
<p></span><a href="http://g4l.networks-ltd.de/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://g4l.networks-ltd.de/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>
<p><strong>Thunk</strong></p>
<p>A password checker, cracker, and generator.<br /></span><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/thunk/"><span style="color:rgb(153, 102, 51);">http://freshmeat.net/projects/thunk/</span></a></p>
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