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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @DustinB3403
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      @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
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                      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
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                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    I use dd a lot

                                    boobs

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                                    • MattSpellerM
                                      MattSpeller @stacksofplates
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                                      @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
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                                          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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