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

[Stuart Burns]

Another one that has been forgotten is dmidecode. It gives a lot of useful
information the BIOS holds. It also gives machine serial numbers, which can
be handy if you need to troubleshooot a machine via ssh that is like a
bazillion miles away ;)

On 1 March 2010 18:22, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> yes that will improve my efficiency by almost 30% :-)
>
>
> On 1 March 2010 11:17, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Les, Did you know there is actually a command called tailf that does
>> exactly the same as tail -f means two chars saved ;)
>>
>> On 1 March 2010 10:36, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Ben Arnold
>>>> Chester, UK
>>>>
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