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Post here useful commandline tools.

 

 

*  app-arch/atool
      Latest version available: 0.39.0
      Latest version installed: 0.39.0
      Size of files: 116 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.nongnu.org/atool/
      Description:   a script for managing file archives of various types
      License:       GPL-2

*  app-misc/screenfetch
      Latest version available: 9999
      Latest version installed: 9999
      Size of files: 0 kB
      Homepage:      https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch
      Description:   A Bash Screenshot Information Tool
      License:       GPL-3
 
*  app-text/wgetpaste
      Latest version available: 2.25-r2
      Latest version installed: 2.25-r2
      Size of files: 10 kB
      Homepage:      http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/
      Description:   Command-line interface to various pastebins
      License:       public-domain
 
*  net-analyzer/nbwmon
      Latest version available: 9999
      Latest version installed: 9999
      Size of files: 0 kB
      Homepage:      https://github.com/causes-/nbwmon
      Description:   ncurses bandwidth monitor
      License:       MIT
 
*  media-sound/ncmpcpp
      Latest version available: 0.6_beta4
      Latest version installed: 0.6_beta4
      Size of files: 406 kB
      Homepage:      http://ncmpcpp.rybczak.net/
      Description:   featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc
      License:       GPL-2
 
*  net-news/newsbeuter
      Latest version available: 2.8
      Latest version installed: 2.8
      Size of files: 421 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html
      Description:   A RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
      License:       MIT
 
*  sys-power/powertop
      Latest version available: 2.6
      Latest version installed: 2.6
      Size of files: 2,953 kB
      Homepage:      https://01.org/powertop/
      Description:   tool that helps you find what software is using the most power
      License:       GPL-2
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for network info, 2 of my favorites:

 

*  net-analyzer/iftop
      Latest version available: 1.0_pre4
      Latest version installed: 1.0_pre4
      Size of files: 199 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/
      Description:   display bandwidth usage on an interface
      License:       GPL-2
 
*  net-analyzer/bmon
      Latest version available: 3.2
      Latest version installed: 3.2
      Size of files: 54 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/bmon/
      Description:   interface bandwidth monitor
      License:       MIT
 
and of course,
 
*  net-analyzer/mtr
      Latest version available: 0.85_p20140126
      Latest version installed: 0.85_p20140126
      Size of files: 218 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
      Description:   My TraceRoute, an Excellent network diagnostic tool
      License:       GPL-2
 
 
 
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I've had an on again off again relationship with regularly monitoring my logfiles. I've used app-text/multitail which is good but I feel like there's probably something better out there that I'm not aware of. (By "better" I mean a log viewing program that is as simple or simpler than multitail. I don't monitor enough hosts to have some elaborate enterprise behemoth.)

 

So do you guys generally monitor your logs in any way or do you use them when something goes wrong? I've done both and to be frank waiting until something stops working seems, for me, to take alot less "mental energy" than constantly having a terminal with log files spewing forth and that constant nag to want to check them. At the same time I catch little bugs and warnings, misconfigurations etc when regularly monitoring logs. I definitely feel more confident in the security and overall "health" of a more consistently monitored system.

 

Where do you guys draw that line between consistent monitoring and checking logs retrospectively once something breaks? What tools do you use? (Don't limit yourselves to ebuilds. If you have trained a monkey or some other "offline" tool or trick to do this task I would be very interested in hearing about it.)

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I monitor my logs retrospectively but I'm not functioning in a professional administrator capacity. I only administer funtoo on 2 desktops 1 server and 3 laptops in my home, for my family network. I suppose that a nifty python or Perl script running as a service could be written to watch logs and sort out messages that are not significant to you, posting those that are to CLI or other.  Have you tried wtail ? I guess that's what multitail was based on?

 

 

by the way.. which logs are you monitoring regularly?

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I use logwatch for my logs, and pflogsumm for my postfix mail server logs.  I run sysklogd for logging because at one time it was required for one of these utilities.  It could have been required by both.  I don't know if that is still the case or not.

 

*  sys-apps/logwatch
      Latest version available: 7.4.0_p170-r1
      Latest version installed: 7.4.0_p170-r1
      Size of files: 445 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.logwatch.org/
      Description:   Analyzes and Reports on system logs
      License:       MIT
 
*  net-mail/pflogsumm
      Latest version available: 1.1.5
      Latest version installed: 1.1.5
      Size of files: 46 kB
      Description:   Pflogsumm is a log analyzer for Postfix logs
      License:       GPL-2
 
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