System Administration
All of the freeware on this page is unsupported by SGI.
Rscan A tool that lets a system administrator run complex or simple scanner scripts on any number of machines in a heterogeneous environment.
LLNL XFTP
An X Window FTP Client easily transfer and manage their files in an increasingly distributed computing
environment.
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LLNL XDIR
A Network-Oriented File Manager
Samba
A suite of programs which work together to allow clients to access Unix filespace and printers via the SMB (Session Message Block) protocol.
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Perl
An interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information.
It's also a good language for many system management tasks.
O'Reilly's Perl site
One of the CPAN mirror sites
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