yes that will improve my efficiency by almost 30% :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2010 11:17, Stuart Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Les, Did you know there is actually a command called tailf that does exactly the same as tail -f means two chars saved ;)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 1 March 2010 10:36, Les Pritchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com" target="_blank">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Some handy hints there. I also use tail -f /var/log/messages as a handy way to monitor the file (or any other for that matter).<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On 1 March 2010 09:55, Ben Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iamseawolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">iamseawolf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div><div>On Sunday 28 February 2010 22:41:57 Stuart Burns wrote:<br>
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> Firstly lets start simple: mtr<br>
</div>Oh stars, that's good! Cheers!<br>
The mtr on Fedora needs to run under sudo though, or chmod 4755<br>
/usr/sbin/mtr<br>
<br>
> Secondly, watch.<br>
Yesterday I put watch df -h in to a script for exactly that reason!<br>
xterm -e 'sudo watch -n 5 cat /var/log/messages'<br>
is a good one :)<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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