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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1
      last edited by

      In addition to the 3 you listed.
      glances - the shell system monitor to use, everything including temp sensors if configured. Replaced htop, iftop, and iotop for me.
      screen - because it's just handy to be able to leave programs running and logout at the same time.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @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.

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

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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
                                            last edited by

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

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