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

[David Holden]

On Monday 01 March 2010 20:58:42 Stuart Burns wrote:
> 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 ;)


Great command!

Dave.


> 
> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> e: iamseawolf at gmail.com
> >>>> e: ben at seawolfsanctuary.com
> >>>> w: seawolfsanctuary.com
> >>>>
> >>>> nom = { :cookies => :mouth }
> >>>> nom; nom; nom
> >>>>
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