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Linux Administrator Tools

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs leveraging extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF).

  2. webmin, cloudmin, usermin

  3. id, adduser, gpasswd (recommended for adding/removing groups)

  4. uptime, top …

Reduce GRUB Timeout

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  1. Open the file /etc/default/grub with sudo permission.

    sudo vim /etc/default/grub
    
  2. Update the value assigned to GRUB_TIMEOUT to a smaller one (e.g., 3). Notice that the time …

Tips and sshfs and fuse

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  1. If you want to be able to mount remove Linux filesystem on you computer, you can install sshfs and fuse using the following command.

    wajig install sshfs fuse
    

    It is suggested …