Another great little tool I came across – iotop. It’s basically a top-like UI app that monitors the data from vmstat. Only installed it recently but looks promising.
Jan
8
Just wanted to note that I recently discovered a nice graphical tool for checking SMART drive health status and even run self-tests from. Quite handy. Read more about it here at Ubuntu Unleashed.
Jan
6
Simple question that was on my mind for some time – what is RedHat/Fedora’s chkconfig equivalent? sysv-rc-conf is the answer. Not installed by default, simple apt-get solves that. Syntax is almost identical to what I remember. However also keep in mind that runlevels are not necessarily the same across different distributions. If my memory serves me correctly, runlevels 1 and 6 are the only that are guaranteed to be identical on all platforms, although 3 and 5 are usually multi-user mode without and with X respectively. Hope this may help a few of you!
Jan
5
So life has been quite hectic lately with the holidays and it’s time to get back to writing. I still need to upload the final piece of my service account script which basically consists of a simple Nautilus script to invoke it. This will be coming shortly, hopefully later this week.
As for my OS Ktux, I am uploading a tarfile with the latest code for anyone whom may care to peruse the source. Unfortunately it’s been longer then I would have liked since this has been worked on. However with my new laptop I will be re-creating my development environment and should have more information available soon.