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sshwait: a script that waits for SSH to be available before connecting

Posted by Curtis K in Administration May, 07 2014 No Comments

What is sshwait!? Just restarted a server? Tired of pressing up and enter while waiting for SSH to be accessible again? Then sshwait is for you! This script automatically waits for an SSH connection to become available before attempting to connect. Output example   Installation To install sshwait, head to my Github page for installation ... Read More...

Command Line Tool of the Day: ccze – prettify your logs with colours!

Posted by Curtis K in Administration Apr, 16 2014 2 Comments

1. What is ccze ? ccze is a tool that colourises logs. It uses a modular approach to support custom colour formatting for popular applications such as Apache, Postfix, Exim, etc. 2. How to install ccze In order to install ccze, you will first need to enable the EPEL repo. Once the EPEL ... Read More...

Command Line Tool of the Day: ncdu – an ncurses-based disk usage tool

Posted by Curtis K in CentOS 6 Feb, 13 2014 No Comments

1. What is ncdu? ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is an ncurses-based disk usage tool. It provides a disk usage summary in a TUI (text user interface), and also allows you to navigate between directories. 2. How to install ncdu In order to install ncdu, you will first need to enable the EPEL repo. ... Read More...

Command Line Tool of the Day: ps_mem – show how much RAM is used per program

Posted by Curtis K in CentOS 6 Feb, 12 2014 No Comments

1. What is ps_mem? ps_mem is a tool that can be used to show how much memory is used per program. It does this by calculating the sum of private RAM for program processes and the sum of shared RAM for program processes. 2. How to install ps_mem In order to install ps_mem, you ... Read More...

Command Line Tool of the Day: Facter – easily gather CentOS Linux system information

Posted by Curtis K in Command Line Tool of the Day Feb, 03 2014 1 Comment

I'd like to introduce a new series on CentOS Blog - CLI Tool of the Day - this series is aimed at useful command line tools that I have discovered while working with CentOS Linux systems. To start this series off, I'd like to introduce Facter. 1. What is Facter? Facter is small program that gathers system ... Read More...

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