Linux
From DWIKI
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
Links
Rescue CDs
Checking resources
http://www.slashroot.in/linux-system-io-monitoring
show what is doing most disk accesses
iotop
IO statistics
iostat vmstat dstat
CPU usage etc
top htop
Administration
FAQ
List hardware
- lshw
- dmidecode
Force reboot
I found sometimes 'reboot' and 'shutdown' don't work in virtual machines, in that case try:
#sync echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger #optionally umount echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger #reboot echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Mignight commander/dialog strange characters
Quick fix:
export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
This probleem seems to be related to screen/su -