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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @JaredBusch
      last edited by

      @JaredBusch said:

      @DustinB3403 said:

      That is not a favorite, I try to avoid rebooting my systems if they don't absolutely need it.

      I reboot pretty much everything, including the bare metal hypervisor, at least every other month.

      Even once a month, I'd not consider it a favorite. A necessary evil, yes. Gotta keep the hardware in check. Glances, screen, sudo, wget, and crtl+r(history search) get used almost every time I hit a server. So minimum of 3 times a day.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
        last edited by

        @DustinB3403 said:

        That is not a favorite, I try to avoid rebooting my systems if they don't absolutely need it.

        that's a bad practice. Weekly or monthly are the only two cycles I'd consider. If you haven't rebooted recently, you don't know that it is coming back after a disaster.

        http://www.smbitjournal.com/2011/02/why-we-reboot-servers/

        Uptimes of longer than 30 days should be an alert, something to worry about.

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        • stacksofplatesS
          stacksofplates
          last edited by stacksofplates

          Glances, tmux, and I use find a lot

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          • RamblingBipedR
            RamblingBiped
            last edited by

            "sudo !!", "tail -f", the unholy trinity that is "grep/awk/sed", and vim (all from within tmux).

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            • coliverC
              coliver
              last edited by

              @travisdh1 said:

              crtl+r(history search)

              This one I didn't know this will be extremely helpful.

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @coliver
                last edited by

                @coliver said:

                @travisdh1 said:

                crtl+r(history search)

                This one I didn't know this will be extremely helpful.

                Ya it's nice, ctrl+a, ctrl+e, and ctrl+d are nice too so you can stay at "home" on the keyboard.

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                • stacksofplatesS
                  stacksofplates @RamblingBiped
                  last edited by

                  @RamblingBiped said:

                  "sudo !!", "tail -f", the unholy trinity that is "grep/awk/sed", and vim (all from within tmux).

                  I don't use awk as much as I should, I essentially use it for a glorified csv reader haha

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                  • quicky2gQ
                    quicky2g
                    last edited by

                    http://www.tecmint.com/20-funny-commands-of-linux-or-linux-is-fun-in-terminal/

                    "sl" is one of my favs.

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                    • quicky2gQ
                      quicky2g
                      last edited by

                      I use SNMPv3 alot from the CLI:

                      snmpbulkwalk -v 3 -u myusername -a SHA -A myauthpass -l authPriv -x AES -X myprivpass 10.1.1.1 system
                      
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                      • quicky2gQ
                        quicky2g
                        last edited by

                        Hardware commands are always great:

                        https://www.maketecheasier.com/gather-hardware-information-in-linux

                        lspci

                        Anything in /proc

                        I LOVE LOVE LOVE htop

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          I honestly don't like htop very much. I prefer regular top. I find the output more useful.

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                          • quicky2gQ
                            quicky2g @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            I honestly don't like htop very much. I prefer regular top. I find the output more useful.

                            htop works much better to see multi-CPU utilization though. Filtering is really nice too.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @quicky2g
                              last edited by

                              @quicky2g said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              I honestly don't like htop very much. I prefer regular top. I find the output more useful.

                              htop works much better to see multi-CPU utilization though. Filtering is really nice too.

                              Ah, I never find CPU utilization to be something that I need to watch. Looks neat and impressive on the screen, but once I know the percentage of CPU, I don't care about seeing a chart, but I need to see load numbers, processes and memory stats.

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                              • MattSpellerM
                                MattSpeller
                                last edited by

                                I use dd a lot

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                                • stacksofplatesS
                                  stacksofplates @MattSpeller
                                  last edited by

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  I use dd a lot

                                  boobs

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                                  • MattSpellerM
                                    MattSpeller @stacksofplates
                                    last edited by

                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    I use dd a lot

                                    boobs

                                    80085?

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                                    • stacksofplatesS
                                      stacksofplates @MattSpeller
                                      last edited by

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      @johnhooks said:

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      I use dd a lot

                                      boobs

                                      80085?

                                      8008135

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                                      • Minion QueenM
                                        Minion Queen Banned
                                        last edited by

                                        ok so looking through the list of new posts.... this caught my eye fast 😳

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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller @stacksofplates
                                          last edited by

                                          @johnhooks said:

                                          @MattSpeller said:

                                          @johnhooks said:

                                          @MattSpeller said:

                                          I use dd a lot

                                          boobs

                                          80085?

                                          8008135

                                          what was the one you had to hold the thing upside down for... oh geez lol

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                                          • stacksofplatesS
                                            stacksofplates @MattSpeller
                                            last edited by

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            @johnhooks said:

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            @johnhooks said:

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            I use dd a lot

                                            boobs

                                            80085?

                                            8008135

                                            what was the one you had to hold the thing upside down for... oh geez lol

                                            ha 7734

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