Glances gives a quick overview of system usage on Linux
Monitor your Linux system As a Linux sysadmin it feels great power when monitoring system resources like cpu, memory on the commandline. To peek inside the system is a good habit here atleast, because...
View ArticleSaidar is a simple system monitoring tool for Linux
Saidar For a system admin, its always exciting to learn new commands to monitor system resources, and here is a new one. Its called Saidar and is a very small tool. Even simpler than and . It displays...
View Article20 amusing Linux commands to have fun with the terminal
The linux terminal is not always dull and boring. There are commands to make it do some funny acts to entertain the user. Here is a small collection of such commands. 1. Cowsay Install cowsay with apt....
View Article12 scp command examples to transfer files on Linux
Secure copy Scp (Secure Copy) is a command line tool to copy or transfer files across hosts. It uses the same kind of security mechanism like the ssh program. Infact it uses an ssh connection in the...
View Article8 commands to check cpu information on Linux
CPU hardware information The cpu information includes details about the processor, like the architecture, vendor name, model, number of cores, speed of each core etc. There are quite a few commands on...
View Article6 quick tools to monitor system resources on Linux
Monitor server resources System administrators need to monitor their server to ensure proper functioning. The practice enables administrators to detect possible issues in advance and recover the...
View Article8 examples of findmnt command to check mounted file systems on Linux
Mounted file systems and devices The more common command to check mounted file systems on linux is the mount command which is used to not only list mounted devices, but also mount and unmount them as...
View Article18 commands to monitor network bandwidth on Linux server
Network monitoring on Linux This post mentions some linux command line tools that can be used to monitor the network usage. These tools monitor the traffic flowing through network interfaces and...
View ArticleCheck hardware information on Linux with hwinfo command
Hwinfo The hwinfo command is a very handy command line tool that can be used to probe for details about hardware components. It reports information about most hardware units like cpu, hdd controllers,...
View Article16 commands to check hardware information on Linux
Hardware information Like for every thing, there are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of your linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like cpu or...
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