What is this all about?
PLD RescueCD is a bootable disk that contains a live Linux distribution based on PLD Linux (2.4.20 modular kernel) made in Poland. Furthermore this version uses transparent compression to fit about 130 MB of software onto a single mini CD 50 MB in usable form. These images are small enough to fit on most business card-sized CD-ROMs (approx. 50MB), but can be burned onto any standard CD-R or CD-RW, as well.
PLD RescueCD can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary secure linux-based workstation (using ssh, vpn connecting to remote host – other networking clients are also supported), install PLD Linux, and perform many other tasks that we haven’t yet imagined. It provides a much nicer rescue environment than your average rescue floppy.
Current release notes (2003.01.21)
Kernel 2.4.20:
Support ext2 ext3 xfs jfs vfat reiserfs ntfs LVM RAID nfs ppp pppoe etc.
Drivers for popular network cards, filesystems or disk controllers you propably will find in the modules located on this CD.
Full list of utils in this release (total of 321): Applications cpuburn 1.4-2 CPU maximum load (heat) stability test sharutils 4.2.1-11 GNU shar utils - shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode upx 1.24-1 The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables x86info 1.11-1 Displays extended CPU information Applications/Archiving afio 2.4.7-1 Program which makes cpio-format archives arj 3.10b-2 ARJ archiver for Linux bzip2 1.0.2-5 Extremely powerful file compression utility cpio 2.5-1 GNU cpio archiving program dobackup 4.22-1 A Perl script for performing unattended incremental backups gzip 1.3.3-1 GNU gzip file compression lha 1.14f-2 An archiving and compression utility for LHarc format ncompress 4.2.4-25 A fast compress utility tar 1.13.25-6 A GNU file archiving program unace 1.2b-3 unACE - extract, test and view ACE archives unrar 3.1.3-1 unRAR - extract, test and view RAR archives xfsdump 2.2.4-1 Tools for the XFS filesystem zip 2.3-13 A file compression and packaging utility compatible with Applications/Communications ckermit 7.0.197-4 The quintessential all-purpose communications program ekg 20030113-2 A client compatible with Gadu-Gadu irssi 0.8.6-1 Irssi is a IRC client lrzsz 0.12.20-12 The lrz and lsz modem communications programs micq 0.4.9.4-1 ICQ Text Based Client minicom 2.00.0-8 TTY mode communications package ala Telix openssl-tools 0.9.6g-1 OpenSSL command line tool and utilities openssl-tools-perl0.9.6g-1 OpenSSL utilities written in Perl smtptools 0.2.3-2 smtptools - tools for the Simple Mail Transfer Applications/Console kbd 1.08-5 Linux terminal utilities open 1.4-16 A tool which will start a program on vlock 1.3-11 locks one or more virtual consoles Applications/Editors joe 2.9.8pre1-6 Easy to use editor Applications/Editors/Vim vim-rt 6.1.212-5 Vim runtime files vim-static 6.1.212-5 Statically linked Vim Applications/File file 3.39-1 file(1) command fileutils 4.1.9-6 GNU File Utilities findutils 4.1.7-5 GNU Find Utilities (find, xargs) gnupg 1.2.1-1 GnuPG - GNU Privacy Guard - tool for gnupg-plugin-idea 1.11-1 Additional module for GPG containing the IDEA cipher rpm-utils 4.0.2-100 Additional utilities for managing rpm packages and database uudeview 0.5.18-3 Smart decoder for uuencode, xxencode, Base64 and BinHex which 2.14-1 Displays where a particular program in your path Applications/Mail mailx 8.1.1-22 /bin/mail - the "traditional" way to mail via Applications/Math bc 1.06-10 GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc Applications/Networking arpwatch 2.1a11-6 Arpwatch monitors changes in ethernet/ip address pairings chkrootkit 0.38-1 chkrootkit - locally checks for signs of a elinks 0.4.1-1 Experimantal Links (text WWW browser) fwhois 1.00-15 A finger-style whois program lftp 2.6.4-1 Commandline ftp client lynx 2.8.5dev.12-1 Text based browser for the world wide web ncftp 3.0.4-5 Browser program for the File Transfer Protocol ngrep 1.40.1-1 Networked grep openssh 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH free Secure Shell (SSH) implementation openssh-clients 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol clients redir 2.2-2 redirect TCP connections rexec 0.17-7 rexec client rlogin 0.17-7 rlogin client rsh 0.17-7 rsh client and rcp command samba-client 2.2.7a-1 Samba client programs tcpdump 3.7.1-2 dumps packets that are sent or received over tcptrace 6.2.0-1 Tool for analysis of TCP dump files tftp 0.17-21 Client for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) traceroute-nanog 6.1.1-1 Trace the route of IP packets going to vrfy 990522-1 'vrfy' is a tool to verify email addresses Applications/Publishing groff 1.18.1-1 A document formatting system groff-perl 1.18.1-1 Parts of the groff formatting system that require Applications/Publishing/XML expat 1.95.5-1 XML 1.0 parser Applications/Shells bash 2.05b-8 GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash) bash-completion 20030118-1 bash-completion offers programmable completion for bash ksh93 1.1-4 Original AT&T Korn Shell mc 4.5.55-12 A user-friendly file manager and visual shell tcsh 6.12.00-1 Enhanced c-shell Applications/System acl 2.1.1-1 Command for manipulating access control lists attr 2.1.1-1 Utility for managing filesystem extended attributes bsp 0.2.2-2 Simplistic script processor for use in initrd cdmrw 1-1 CDMRW Utility cdrdao 1.1.7-1 Tools for burning CDRs in Disk At Once cdrtools 2.0-1 A command line CD/DVD-Recorder cdrtools-mkisofs 2.0-1 Creates an ISO9660 filesystem image cdrtools-utils 2.0-1 Dumping and verifying iso9660 images chkconfig 1.2.22-5 Updates and queries runlevel information for system services cracklib-dicts 2.7-16 Standard dictionaries (/usr/share/dict/words) defrag 0.73-2 Linux filesystem defragmenter dosfstools 2.8-2 Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems e2fsprogs 1.32-2 Utilities for managing the second extended (ext2) filesystem ext2resize 1.1.17-1 An ext2 filesystem resizer geninitrd 2.22-2 Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules genromfs 0.5.1-2 Utility for creating romfs filesystems gpart 0.1h-2 Guesses and recovers damaged Master Boot Records hddtemp 0.2-2 HDD temperature sensor hdparm 5.3-1 Utility for setting (E)IDE performance parameters ide-smart 1.3-2 IDE S.M.A.R.T. test and query tool iozone 3.153-1 IO Zone Benchmark Program jfsutils 1.0.22-1 IBM JFS utility programs john 1.6-6 Password cracker ksymoops 2.4.8-1 Kernel Oops decoder libcap 1.92-4 POSIX.1e capability suite lilo 22.3.4-1 Boot loader for Linux and other operating systems logcheck 1.1.1-2 Logcheck system log analyzer login 2.11y-1 login is used when signing onto a system logrotate 3.6.5-4 Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files logwatch 4.2.1-3 Analyzes system logs losetup 2.11y-1@2.4 Programs for setting up and configuring loopback devices lsof 4.66-1 Lists files open by processes lvm 1.0.5-3 Logical Volume Manager for Linux man 1.5k-2 Manual page reader man-config 1.5k-2 Manual page reader configuration memtester 2.93.1-1 Userspace utility to test for faulty memory subsystem mingetty 0.9.4-19 a compact, console-only getty mknbi 1.2-4 Utility for creating network bootable images mktemp 1.5-13 mktemp - a program for safely making tmp modutils 2.4.22-2 Module utilities without kerneld mount 2.11y-1@2.4 Programs for mounting and unmounting filesystems ms-sys 1.0-2 Create DOS/MS-compatible boot records mt-st 0.7-1 Programs to control tape device operations mtx 1.2.15-1 Program for controlling SCSI media changers and tape nbd-tools 1.3-2 Tools for using the Network Block Device ncps 0.493-2 Another processes manager utility nut 1.2.0-1 Network UPS Tools nut-client 1.2.0-1 Multi-vendor UPS Monitoring Project Client Utilities opie 2.4-3 OPIE suite of programs parted 1.6.4-1 Flexible partitioning tool partimage 0.6.1-6 Utility to save partitions in a compressed image partimage-server 0.6.1-6 Partimage server pciutils 2.1.11-1 Linux PCI utilities pcmcia-cs 3.1.30-15 Daemon and utilities for using PCMCIA adapters poldek 0.18-7 RPM packages management helper tool procinfo 18-2 A tool for gathering and displaying system information procinfo-perl 18-2 procinfo perl helper scripts procps 3.1.5-2 Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on psmisc 21.2-1 Utilities for managing processes on your system quota 3.08-1 Quota administration package rdist 6.1.5-16 Maintains identical copies of files on multiple machines reiserfsprogs 3.6.4-1 Utilities belonging to the Reiser filesystem scsiutils 1.7.2.10.0.97-SCSI utilities setserial 2.17-11 Serial interface configuration program sh-utils 2.0.12-6 GNU shell utilities shadow 4.0.0-15 Shadow password file utilities for Linux smartsuite 2.1-3 UCSC SMART suite - S.M.A.R.T. utility for Linux statserial 1.1-31 A tool which displays the status of serial syslinux 2.00-1 Simple bootloader targa 2.1-2 MS Windows95/98/NT testing kit testdisk 4.3-1 Tool to check and undelete partition time 1.7-15 GNU time Utility tmpwatch 2.8.4-5 A utility for removing files based on when tripwire 1.2-2 Verifies file integrity tunelp 2.11y-1 Configures kernel parallel port driver ucd-snmp-snmptrapd4.2.6-2 SNMP trap daemon ucd-snmp-utils 4.2.6-2 Network management utilities using SNMP, from the UCD-SNMP usbutils 0.11-2 Linux USB utilities util-linux 2.11y-1 Collection of basic system utilities for Linux xfsprogs 2.3.6-1 Tools for the XFS filesystem ziptool 1.4.0-1 Tools for Iomega JAZ and ZIP drives Applications/Terminal cursel 0.1.9-4 Form and menu language interpreter terminfo 5.3-2 Complete terminfo database ttysnoop 0.12c-9 Program to snoop on a TTY through another Applications/Text diffstat 1.28-3 Provides diff file statistics diffutils 2.7.2-6 A GNU collection of diff utilities dos2unix 3.1-14 dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format grep 2.5.1-4 GNU grep Utilities interdiff 0.0.10-1 A utility to generate incremental patches from pristine less 378-2 Text file browser -- less is more logtool 1.1.0-3 A handy syslog file(s) manipulation/monitoring/parsing tool mawk 1.3.3-29 An interpreter for the awk programming language patch 2.5.4-16 GNU patch Utilities perl 5.6.1-64 Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) perl-modules 5.6.1-64 Practical Extraction and Report Language - modules sed 4.0.5-1 A GNU stream text editor textutils 2.0.21-7 GNU Text Utilities words 2-17 English dictionary for /usr/share/dict Base FHS 2.2-2 Basic FHS 2.2 filesystem layout SysVinit 2.84-4 System V initialization program basesystem 1.0-8 Skeleton package which defines a base of PLD devfs 1.0-4 devfs empty package devfsd 1.3.25-2 DevFS Daemon mdadm 1.0.1-2 Tool for creating and maintaining software RAID devices nss_hesiod 2.2.5-22 Hesiod NSS glibc module nss_nis 2.2.5-22 NIS(YP) NSS glibc module nss_nisplus 2.2.5-22 NIS+ NSS module pam 0.77.0-1 Pluggable Authentication Modules: modular, incremental authentication raidtools 0.90.20010914-Tools for creating and maintaining software RAID devices rc-inetd 0.14-1 Wrapper for managing inet service using any kind rc-scripts 0.3.1-12.1 inittab and /etc/rc.d scripts rpm 4.0.2-100 RPM Package Manager setup 2.4.1-4.1 Simple setup files utempter 0.5.2-9 Privileged helper for utmpx updates Base/Kernel kernel-eplip 0.5.6-4@2.4.20EPLIP (Enhanced Parallel Line IP) module kernel-net-ltmodem6.00c2-1.1@2.4Kernel module for Lucent modems kernel-pcmcia-wave3.1.30-15@2.4.Avaya Wireless PC Card - Drivers kernel-rescue 2.4.20-2 The Linux kernel for bootdisk Daemons bdflush 1.6.2-5 System Cache flusher gpm 1.20.1-rc1.4 General Purpose Mouse support for Linux hc-cron 0.14-10 Home computer cron daemon iplog 2.2.1-6 IPLog - TCP/IP trafic logger ipxtund 1.3.0-4 Tunneling IPX packets via IP network klogd 1.4.1-8 Linux kernel logger lvcool 1.7-1 Little utility will cool your processor netatalk 1.6.0-1 AppleTalk networking programs portmap 5beta-11 RPC port mapper pure-ftpd 1.0.13-1 Small, fast and secure FTP server rlinetd 0.5.1-16 better replacement for inetd rsync 2.5.5-3 Program for efficient remote updates of files rsyncd-inetd 2.5.5-3 Files necessary to run rsync in daemon mode syslog-ng 1.5.23-1 Syslog-ng - new generation of the system logger bind 9.2.1-12 BIND - DNS name server dhcpcd 1.3.22pl4-1 DHCP Client Daemon exim 3.36-5 University of Cambridge Mail Transfer Agent iptables 1.2.7a-5@2.4.2extensible packet filtering system && extensible NAT system ipxripd 0.7-6 IPX RIP/SAP daemon - routing for IPX networks mtest 1-2 Multicast testing tools nfs-utils 0.3.3-9 Kernel NFS server openssh-server 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol server (sshd) openvpn 1.3.2-1 VPN Daemon ppp 2.4.2-0.200209ppp daemon package for Linux rstatd 0.17-14 kernel statistics server rusersd 0.17-14 Server for the rusers protocol rwalld 0.17-13 Server for sending messages to a host's logged rwho 0.17-13 Displays who is logged in to local network samba-common 2.2.7a-1 Files used by both Samba servers and clients skey 2.2-7 S/Key suite of programs stunnel 4.04-0.1 Universal SSL tunnel tftpd 0.17-21 Daemon for the trivial file transfer protocol (tftp) ucd-snmp 4.2.6-2 A collection of SNMP protocol tools ulogd 0.98-1 ULOGD - the Userspace Logging Daemon for iptables vtun 2.5-5 Virtual tunnel over TCP/IP networks wvdial 1.53-1 A heuristic autodialer for PPP connections ypbind-mt 1.12-2 The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to Development/Building make 3.80-2 GNU Make Development/Debuggers gdb 5.3-1 A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++ and lslk 1.29-2 A lock file lister ltrace 0.3.26-3 Tracks runtime library calls from dynamically linked executables strace 4.4-4 prints system call strace of a running process Development/Languages lua40 4.0.1-5 A simple lightweight powerful embeddable programming language Development/Languages/Perl perl-Carp-Assert 0.17-8 Carp::Assert - executable comments perl-Class-Fields 0.14-2 Class::Fields - Inspect the fields of a class perl-Config-IniFil2.36-1 Config::IniFiles Perl module perl-DB_File 1.806-1 DB_File allows to manage a simple ASCII database perl-Digest-MD5 2.22-1 A perl interface to the MD5 digest algorithm perl-Test-Harness 2.26-2 Test::Harness Perl module Development/Libraries cups-lib 1.1.14-21 Common Unix Printing System Libraries libelf 0.8.2-4 ELF object file access library mcrypt 2.6.3-1 Mcrypt - simple crypting program Development/Tools binutils 2.13.90.0.16-1GNU Binary Utility Development Utilities findsym 1.1-1 Tools to manipulate ELF files gettext 0.10.40-4 Utilties for program national language support Development/Version Control cvs 1.11.2-7 Concurrent Versioning System Documentation man-pages 1.53-5 System manual pages from the Linux Documentation Project Libraries cups-lib 1.1.14-21 Common Unix Printing System Libraries libelf 0.8.2-4 ELF object file access library mcrypt 2.6.3-1 Mcrypt - simple crypting program bind-libs 9.2.1-12 DNS libraries cracklib 2.7-16 Password checking library db1 1.85-8 BSD database library for C db3 3.1.17-10.1 BSD database library for C dmapi 2.0.5-1 DMAPI library gdbm 1.8.0-16 GNU database library for C glib 1.2.10-7 Useful routines for 'C' programming glibc 2.2.5-22 GNU libc gmp 4.1.1-1 GNU arbitrary precision library gpm-libs 1.20.1-rc1.4 GPM libraries libgsm 1.0.10-6 GSM audio encoding/decoding library libltdl 1.4.3-2 System independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool libmcrypt 2.5.5-1 encryption/decryption library libnet 1.0.2a-6 "libpwrite" Network Routine Library libnids 1.16-2 "libpwrite" Network Routine Library libpcap 0.7.1-3 Libpcap provides promiscuous mode access to network interfaces libsmi 0.4.0-1 Structure of Management Information library libstdc++ 2.10.0-30 GNU c++ library libwrap 7.6-27 Security wrapper access control library lzo 1.08-1 LZO - a real-time data compression library mhash 0.8.17-1 Hash library ncurses 5.3-2 curses terminal control library ncurses-ext 5.3-2 Additional ncurses libraries newt 0.50.34-5 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing openssl 0.9.6g-1 OpenSSL Toolkit libraries for the "Secure Sockets Layer" opie-libs 2.4-3 OPIE shared libraries pcre 3.9-3 Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library popt 1.6.4-2 C library for parsing command line parameters readline 4.3-6 Library for reading lines from a terminal slang 1.4.7-1 shared library for C like extension language ucd-snmp-libs 4.2.6-2 UCD SNMP libraries ucl 1.01-1 Portable lossless data compression library wvstreams 3.70-1 A network programming library written in C++ zlib 1.1.4-5 Library for compression and decompression Networking arpwatch 2.1a11-6 Arpwatch monitors changes in ethernet/ip address pairings chkrootkit 0.38-1 chkrootkit - locally checks for signs of a elinks 0.4.1-1 Experimantal Links (text WWW browser) fwhois 1.00-15 A finger-style whois program lftp 2.6.4-1 Commandline ftp client lynx 2.8.5dev.12-1 Text based browser for the world wide web ncftp 3.0.4-5 Browser program for the File Transfer Protocol ngrep 1.40.1-1 Networked grep openssh 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH free Secure Shell (SSH) implementation openssh-clients 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol clients redir 2.2-2 redirect TCP connections rexec 0.17-7 rexec client rlogin 0.17-7 rlogin client rsh 0.17-7 rsh client and rcp command samba-client 2.2.7a-1 Samba client programs tcpdump 3.7.1-2 dumps packets that are sent or received over tcptrace 6.2.0-1 Tool for analysis of TCP dump files tftp 0.17-21 Client for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) traceroute-nanog 6.1.1-1 Trace the route of IP packets going to vrfy 990522-1 'vrfy' is a tool to verify email addresses ippl 1.99.5-9 IP protocols logger nfs-utils-clients 0.3.3-9 Clients for connecting to a remote NFS server nfs-utils-lock 0.3.3-9 Programs for NFS file locking nmap 3.00-1 Network exploration tool and security scanner rp-pppoe 3.5-3 PPP Over Ethernet client rup 0.17-14 rstatd client rusers 0.17-14 Displays the users logged into machines on the rwall 0.17-13 Client for sending messages to a host's logged telnet 0.17-23 Client for the telnet remote login protocol telnetd 0.17-23 Server for the telnet remote login protocol uucp 1.06.2-6 GNU uucp ytalk 3.1.1-10 Uses internet talk protocol to create multiuser chat iproute2 2.4.7.ss010803Utility to control Networking behavior in 2.2.X kernels net-tools 1.60-7 Basic Networking Tools Networking/Admin ethtool 1.6-1 Utility to control ethernet cards firewall-init 2.99.5-2@2.4 Firewall SysV-init style start-up script ipmenu 0.0.3-1 Netfilter/IPtables Rule Editor iproute2 2.4.7.ss010803Utility to control Networking behavior in 2.2.X kernels iputils ss020124-1 Utilities for IPv4/IPv6 networking iputils-ping ss020124-1 IPv4 ping nc 1.10-17 Versatile network test and debugging tool net-tools 1.60-7 Basic Networking Tools plipconfig 1.60-7 plipconfig - fine tune PLIP device parameters slattach 1.60-7 slattach - attach a network interface to a tcp_wrappers 7.6-27 Security wrapper for tcp daemons Networking/Daemons bind 9.2.1-12 BIND - DNS name server dhcpcd 1.3.22pl4-1 DHCP Client Daemon exim 3.36-5 University of Cambridge Mail Transfer Agent iptables 1.2.7a-5@2.4.2extensible packet filtering system && extensible NAT system ipxripd 0.7-6 IPX RIP/SAP daemon - routing for IPX networks mtest 1-2 Multicast testing tools nfs-utils 0.3.3-9 Kernel NFS server openssh-server 3.5p1-3 OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol server (sshd) openvpn 1.3.2-1 VPN Daemon ppp 2.4.2-0.200209ppp daemon package for Linux rstatd 0.17-14 kernel statistics server rusersd 0.17-14 Server for the rusers protocol rwalld 0.17-13 Server for sending messages to a host's logged rwho 0.17-13 Displays who is logged in to local network samba-common 2.2.7a-1 Files used by both Samba servers and clients skey 2.2-7 S/Key suite of programs stunnel 4.04-0.1 Universal SSL tunnel tftpd 0.17-21 Daemon for the trivial file transfer protocol (tftp) ucd-snmp 4.2.6-2 A collection of SNMP protocol tools ulogd 0.98-1 ULOGD - the Userspace Logging Daemon for iptables vtun 2.5-5 Virtual tunnel over TCP/IP networks wvdial 1.53-1 A heuristic autodialer for PPP connections ypbind-mt 1.12-2 The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to Networking/Utilities bind-utils 9.2.1-12 DNS utils - host, dig, dnsquery, nslookup bsd-finger 0.17-10 Finger client dsniff 2.3-8 Network audit tools ettercap 0.6.7-1 ettercap is a ncurses-based sniffer/interceptor utility hping 2.0.0-3 A software to do TCP/IP stack auditing and hunt 1.5-2 Connection intruder ipfm 0.11.4-7 IP Flow Meter is a bandwidth analysis tool iptraf 2.7.0-2 IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring program ipxutils 2.2.0.19-0.1 Utilities for IPX configuration mtr 0.51-1 Matt's Traceroute - network diagnostic tool ncpfs 2.2.0.19-0.1 Support Utilities for ncpfs, the free netware client nslint 2.0.1a1-6 Checks DNS files for errors pump 0.8.11-9 Bootp and dhcp client for automatic IP configuration rdate 1.3-2 Remote clock reader (and local setter) ripmime 1.2.16.21-1 ripMIME extract the attached files out of a snarf 7.0-8 Non-interactive client for several network protocols (WWW, FTP) sniffit 0.3.7-6 Program for demonstrating the unsafeness of TCP wget 1.8.2-4 A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP yp-tools 2.7-1 NIS (or YP) client programs
This project is still in the development process. If you have any comments, or you want to report a bug, please send them to me.