Episode 129: Monitoring Utilities

News:

The Main Topic:

GKrellM (GNU Krell Monitors):
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html
http://freecode.com/projects/gkrellm
http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/
Conky:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2011/09/beautiful-conky-linux.html

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System Monitor article on Wikipedia

Tip:

Making recursive directories. If you need to create a directory inside of another directory (or two, or three) that don’t exist, you can create the entire hierarchy of directories with one command by using the -p option with the mkdir command. Example:

mkdir -p /foo/bar/foo2/bar2

This will create a directory named bar2, in a directory named foo2, in a directory named bar, in a directory named foo. If any of those directories did not exist at the time of command invocation, they will be created by the command. Much easier than using the GUI for this same task.