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Conky
Conky is a Linux system monitor tool using X Windows. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail in-boxes Linux updates, runs many popular music players, and much more. Unlike system monitors that use high-level widget tool-kits to render their information, Conky i…text/html2025-04-06T07:41:58+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Manjaro Setup Notes
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Manjaro Setup Notes
I tried Manjaro circa 2019 for a couple of years as my main Linux Desktop. I had no major problems with it. An occasional minor problem this nVidia graphic card and some minor issues with updates. Having used Debian / Ubuntu the past 10 years on servers I decided to switch to Debian testing desk top with XFCE. Debian testing basically give a similar level of latest updates as Manjaro/Arch. I have not …text/html2025-09-29T05:35:59+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Commonly used commands and scripts
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Commonly used commands and scripts
dmesg
sudo dmesg lists the OS boot messages between grub and os up.
sudo dmesg --level=emerg,alert,crit,err,warn,notice,debug give a more succinct list of focus potential problem issues.
* emerg - system is unusabletext/html2026-01-31T14:34:43+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Rsync
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Rsync
These are my rsync notes. I also used to use rsnapshot, however I was unhappy with the performance of this application and moved to restic. The original rsnapshot notes have been rolled up and moved to the bottom of this page.
Rsync Notes
Main rsync command usage summarytext/html2025-11-22T03:58:17+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)BASH Customisation
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BASH Customisation
The standard BASH colour configuration uses a blue colour for listing directories (ls) which is difficult to read on a black background. While this is the “standard colour”, due to the impracticality I have decided to change it.text/html2023-12-26T03:44:19+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Webmin
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Webmin
I don't bother to use Webmin, it has been well over a year since I tried to use.
Old, tl;dr;
I am a bit lazy sometimes and use Webmin to help setup certain services, e.g. Samba. Webmin is a web interfaced system administration system for Linux and has lots of plugins for various Linux apps/packages. Webmin has its own mini webserver built in. There are lots of web page discussing Webmin, how to install and use, e.g.text/html2025-01-03T09:33:51+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XFCE
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XFCE
XFCE Plugins
Many XFCE plugins are available via menu: setting : panel : items, from here panel items can be added and removed and configured.
To see available XFCE4 packages in the Debian repository sudo apt-cache search xfce4*.
XFCE Keystrokestext/html2023-12-23T13:07:19+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)IPMI CLI Tools
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IPMI CLI Tools
Much copied from Adam Sweet's wiki on IPMI.
What is IPMI?
IPMI is standard which allows remote server management, primarily developed by Intel. IPMI cards, known as Baseboard Management Cards (BMCs) are primitive computers in their own right and are operational all the time, so long as the server has a power source. The server itself does not need to be powered on, or the operating system operational for the BMC to work, it just needs a power source…