Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:45:07PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> GNU Sysutils is intended to compliment coreutils. These utilities
> are ones that are either primarily useful to system administrators,
> or would need to be installed by a system administrator to be useful
> (Usually because they require extra priviledges in order to
> function)
> 
> Some of these utils superceed existing implementations in Debian, I'll take
> care to rename them (i.e, add "g" prefix as usual) when that happens.
> 
> Btw, "sysutils" is taken, so I take "gsysutils". Does someone prefer
> "gnu-sysutils"?

I would, as I associate gsomething with a Gnome-frontend for something
(e.g gsudo), but I don't claim that is common conception.

BTW is the this project actually alive? There was only activity in CVS
from 2003-03-28 (project founded) to 2003-04-16.
              cu andreas