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Utility to set/show the host name or domain name
This package provides funcions to display or set system's hostname or NIS domain name, and displays its DNS name as well.
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The GNU version of the AWK text processing utility
The gawk package is the GNU implementation of awk. The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.
A system tool for maintaining the /etc/rc*.d hierarchy
Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links.
Iproute2 is a collection of user-space utilities to set up networking under Linux from the command-line. It can inspect and configure, among other things: interface paramters, IP addresses, routing, tunnels, bridges, packet transformations (IPsec, etc.), and Quality of Service.
systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.
The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more.
ipcalc provides a simple way to calculate IP information for a host or network. Depending on the options specified, it may be used to provide IP network information in human readable format, in a format suitable for parsing in scripts, generate random private addresses, resolve an IP address, or check the validity of an address.
Basic support for legacy System V init scripts
This package provides basic support for legacy System V init scripts, and some other legacy tools & utilities.
Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines.
D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Utilities that provide system information.
The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, pidof, pmap, slabtop, w, watch and pwdx.
An arbitrary precision numeric processing language.
bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.
non-interactive command-line text editor
Sed is a non-interactive command-line text editor. A stream editor is used to per-form basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).
The kmod package provides several commands to manage the kernel modules, such as insmod to load and rmmod to unload the modules.
The basic directory layout for a Linux system
The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories.
Legacy scripts for manipulating of network devices
This package contains the legacy scripts for activating & deactivating of most network interfaces. It also provides a legacy version of 'network' service. The 'network' service is enabled by default after installation of this package, and if the network-scripts are installed alongside NetworkManager, then the ifup/ifdown commands from network-scripts take precedence over the ones provided by NetworkManager. If user has both network-scripts & NetworkManager installed, and wishes to use ifup/ifdown from NetworkManager primarily, then they has to run command: $ update-alternatives --config ifup Please note that running the command above will also disable the 'network' service.
Bash is the GNU Project's shell. Bash is the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.