www.skarnet.org

Software

Unless otherwise mentioned, all of this software builds and runs under every flavour of Unix - and only Unix.

Current, released, maintained software

• skalibs
  A set of general-purpose C programming libraries. You need this first: all the other software in this list depends on it.
• execline
  A small scripting language, to be used in place of a shell in non-interactive scripts.
• s6
  skarnet.org's small & secure supervision software suite.
• minidentd
  A small ident server.
• ucspilogd
  A very, very small syslogd replacement.
• s6-portable-utils
  Tiny portable generic utilities.
• s6-linux-utils
  Tiny Linux-specific utilities.

Software in the works, to be released soon (or not so soon)

• s6-dns
  Good, usable DNS client libraries (synchronous and asynchronous), and command-line DNS client utilities.
• s6-networking
  UCSPI Unix and TCP tools, access control tools, and network time management utilities. Also includes an asynchronous locking library.
• skabus
  A lightweight Unix message bus.
• salted
  Lightweight secure network communications.

Obsolete software

Software listed here might disappear at any moment. This list only exists for transitional purposes.

• skadns
  An asynchronous DNS client library. (Now included in s6-dns.)
• conn-tools
  A collection of simple tools to handle reliable connections between processes. (Replaced with s6-networking.)
• skaembutils
  Tiny portable utilities that I found missing from the embutils. (Replaced with s6-portable-utils.)
• minutils
  Tiny Linux-specific utilities that I found missing from the embutils. (Replaced with s6-linux-utils.)
• minnotify
  A client and a server to implement general-purpose notification over the network. (Useless now that execline exists: can be replaced by trivial execline scripts.)
• symtools
  A collection of simple tools to handle symlinks gracefully. (Included in s6-portable-utils.)

Adaptations or patches to other people's software

• David Madore's Book of Infinity, as a single C file suitable for compilation with skalibs.
  The Book of Infinity is a web robot trap.
• David Madore's superstrip, as a single C file suitable for compilation with skalibs.
  superstrip is a very aggressive ELF stripping utility.
• djbdns-fwdzone
  A patch to djbdns to allow dnscache to perform resolution or forwarding according to the query zone.
• nistp224-buffer
  A patch to nistp224 to make the main binaries use djb's buffer library instead of stdio.
• qmail-qmtproutes
  An add-on to Russell Nelson's qmail-1.03-qmtpc patch for qmail. This one allows you to send mail via QMTP using a qmtproutes file.

Notes

• Frequently Asked Questions about this software
• The build process of the www.skarnet.org packages