helper-scripts

helper-scripts is a set packages that contain scripts that I like to have installed on all of my Debian-based systems. I keep them in my repository as a convenience to me, but I thought I’d post about them anyway in case they might be useful to someone else. Currently, helper-scripts generates 4 binary packages that contain:

debian-helper-scripts

These are just a few scripts that I always install on my Debian systems. See their respective man pages for more information.

courierpw – change a userdb password for the Courier IMAP daemon
psp – report status of a specific process by name
service – invoke scripts in /etc/init.d
sources – quickly change between apt source files
system-health – monitor and report a system’s health
system-update – update a Debian system automatically

ubuntu-helper-scripts

This is the same set as debian-helper-scripts but without the “service” script
since it is included with sysvinit-utils in Ubuntu. As of Ubuntu 8.04, sysvinit-utils “conflicts” with debian-helper-scripts, preventing its installation.

subversion-helper-scripts

These are just a few scripts that I use to help me interface to my subversion
repositories from various locations and to maintain them on the server. I
hate dealing with the goofy subversion URI syntax and these scripts abstract it
away nicely when you are only dealing with one server.