[Chester LUG] Some cool commands you may not have known about

[Les Pritchard]

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).


On 1 March 2010 09:55, Ben Arnold <iamseawolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 28 February 2010 22:41:57 Stuart Burns wrote:
>
> > Firstly lets start simple: mtr
> Oh stars, that's good! Cheers!
> The mtr on Fedora needs to run under sudo though, or chmod 4755
> /usr/sbin/mtr
>
> > Secondly, watch.
> Yesterday I put watch df -h in to a script for exactly that reason!
> xterm -e 'sudo watch -n 5 cat /var/log/messages'
> is a good one :)
>
> Thanks!
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