A personal collection of standalone scripts for Linux server and desktop management: diagnostics, first-time server and workstation setup, routine cleanup, and an inference server deployment. Every script is Perl, every one runs on the interpreter's own builtins, and none of them needs a module installed beside it.

Features

Diagnostics: network-diag.pl measures latency, packet loss, DNS resolution, MTU and dual-stack reachability and grades the connection; system-diag.pl reads the whole machine (CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, services, security, performance) and grades its health.
Security audit: security-audit.pl grades the machine's defences A to F from the state it is actually in: the effective sshd configuration, the running firewalld checked against the sockets that really listen, SELinux now and at the next boot, pending security updates, accounts and sudo, kernel hardening, and an opt-in deep scan of the file system. A critical finding is a non-zero exit, so a cron job fails loudly.
Setup: server-setup.pl takes a fresh server to a working state (packages, firewall with the SSH rule verified before the service is enabled, SELinux, Podman, automatic updates); workstation-setup.pl sets up a Fedora desktop (Brave, the official Go toolchain, Rust, GoLand, Flatpak applications, firewall, SELinux).
Deployment: sglang-deploy.pl puts an SGLang inference server on an AMD GPU behind nginx with HTTPS and an API key, runs the engine from the project's ROCm container image, and downloads the model weights from ModelScope.
Maintenance: system-optimise.pl removes old kernels (the running one and one fallback always stay), vacuums journals, clears temporary files and core dumps, and audits the installed packages against their repositories.
Idempotent by construction: every operation checks the current state before acting, so a second run reports what is already in place and changes nothing.

Install

The scripts are single files. Take the repository, or take one script with curl:

git clone https://sourcedock.dev/petrbalvin/scripts.git
cd scripts

Requirements: Perl, which every supported system ships. Nothing else: the scripts drive the system's own tools (dnf, systemctl, podman, openssl, curl) rather than carrying a library layer, and where a language has no builtin for a job the script does the work itself.

Quick start

# Network diagnostics, no root needed
perl network-diag.pl

# System health, no root needed
perl system-diag.pl

# Security audit, deeper answers as root
sudo perl security-audit.pl --deep

# Server setup, as root
sudo perl server-setup.pl --dry-run

# SGLang on an AMD GPU, as root
sudo perl sglang-deploy.pl --model ZhipuAI/GLM-5.3

Any script can also be fetched and run in one step:

curl -sSf https://petrbalvin.org/scripts/system-diag.pl | perl

Integrity verification

A single SHA256SUMS file covers every published script. Verify before running:

curl -sSfO https://petrbalvin.org/scripts/server-setup.pl
curl -sSfO https://petrbalvin.org/scripts/SHA256SUMS
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
sudo perl server-setup.pl --dry-run

Usage

Each script documents its own flags; --help prints them and --dry-run shows what a change would do without doing it.

Script	Version	Purpose
`network-diag.pl`	2.0.0	Network latency, DNS, MTU, packet loss and dual-stack on Linux and FreeBSD
`system-diag.pl`	2.0.0	System health with a grade from A to F. Linux only
`security-audit.pl`	2.0.0	Security posture with a grade from A to F and an exit code for cron. Linux only
`server-setup.pl`	2.0.0	Server initial setup for Fedora, CentOS Stream and openEuler
`workstation-setup.pl`	2.0.0	Fedora desktop setup
`sglang-deploy.pl`	2.0.0	SGLang inference server on an AMD GPU, behind nginx with HTTPS
`system-optimise.pl`	2.0.0	System cleanup; refuses rpm-ostree systems

The full flag reference is in docs/CLI.md.

Development

perl -c network-diag.pl       # every script compiles
perl tests/network-diag.pl    # that script's checks
perl tests/system-diag.pl     # and so on for each script

The local gates are the syntax check, the seven test files, the licence header and the punctuation rule; the container rigs that verify a script against a real system are described in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute.

Documentation

docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: the shared shape of the scripts and what each one owns
docs/CLI.md: every flag of every script
docs/DEPLOYMENT.md: how the scripts are published, and what they deploy on a host
docs/DEVELOPMENT.md: prerequisites, commands and verification

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.