This repository contains miscellaneous smaller tools and utilities that don't really need their own repositories. To keep commit histories clean, each utility is kept in its own branch with its own history.
All tools and utilities in any branches of this repository are released under the license present in the LICENSE file next to this README.md file, unless specified otherwise in the header of a file.
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curlserve (2012) - A simple HTTP file server that works well with curl(1), using raw HTTP and plaintext rather than HTML. Can send directories as archives and even has
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dnscheck (2016) - A shell script to check a list (file) of DNS hostnames against multiple DNS servers and compare their responses to A/AAAA/PTR. Useful to verify if your distributed DNS infrastructure has broken updates.
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ethtoolspeed (2014) - Simple
LD_PRELOADable library to fake speeds reported by ethtool(8). For testing purposes. -
fake_egd (2015) - Workaround for libvirt to feed qemu-based guests any block device (ie. urandom) via virtio-rng. Made for political reasons; the maintainer of libvirt in RHEL refused to acknowledge that urandom is secure once seeded and libvirt had a hardcoded /dev/urandom check and error. This was removed in later versions of libvirt.
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gitcmds (2016) - Misc additional git commands and scripts to help my workflow.
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modholder (2014) - A simple Linux kernel module to increase the refcount of another arbitrary module. For testing purposes.
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null - This branch! Also a troll for people writing dumb git scripts that always presume that remote HEAD is refs/heads/master.
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relroscan (2015) - A system scanning bash script to find executables potentially vulnerable to some attacks. Checking for stack canaries, RELRO, PIE, RPATH/RUNPATH, etc. Originally for Common Criteria testing.
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reviewer (2015) - A single-use helper to cleanup a history of one git branch across multiple authors. The idea was to preserve the history ordering and not cross "author boundaries", but squash/fixup "typo fixes" and other small clutter commits. See the script comment.
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smaeptest (2014) - A simple Linux kernel module to test if Intel SMEP / SMAP is working. Originally for Common Criteria testing.
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tcp_repeater (2015/2017) - What it says on the tin; a daemon that listens on a port (v1) or a range of ports (v2) and broadcasts any received TCP payloads to all connected clients. Originally used for network-based serial console for virtual machines where a conserver would connect to the repeater and qemu-based guests would too. This mitigated conserver disconnect issues when it was connecting directly to qemu and the qemu guest was rebooted.