Here’s another one that will probably be more interesting to administrators or multi-user system fans: logintop10. It should be fairly obvious what’s happening there: logintop10 parses through your wtmp file (which was at /var/log/wtmp on my Arch system) and comes back with an array of login statistics. Output is to an HTML file of your […]
I suppose it had to come to this: It’s emms. It’s emacs, playing music. Because emacs can check your e-mail, run a spreadsheet, chat with your friends, read your newsfeeds and now play your music. Because it’s emacs, and that’s what it does — everything. 😉 I will not speak ill of emms since it’s […]
I’m not a log nut. I mean, I don’t spend hours poring over logs to try and find the source of my angst (I’m not a terribly angsty person though). I do know that’s a favorite hobby for some people and professions, and to that end, logtop may be exciting. logtop is kind of like […]
I am not surprised that there is a top-like tool for monitoring the X Window system. After all, there is a plethora of *top tools aimed at any aspect of your hardware or information flow, and X is not that special. On the other hand, the fact that xrestop is intended to run in a […]
If you think you can win my affection just by taking time-honored mainstays of the Linux software landscape and injecting them with color … well, you can. neosrix left a note late last year about a colorized iftop — rather cleverly called iftopcolor — and I should have known better than to wait this long […]
I was very much torn on whether or not to include wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage here, or just throw them into the leftovers at the end of the W section. As I understand it, these twins use WebKit to convert HTML documents into either PDF format, or to generate an image. It’s a nice idea, and […]
For as many *top programs as there are, it shouldn’t surprise me that there’s an sntop. It should surprise me that sntop is a little … different. sntop doesn’t really poll anything local, unless you tell it to test your loopback address. Otherwise, sntop checks servers — or other addresses, like a network access point […]
This is ntop — another of the breed of “console programs” I have on my list that do, in fact, run at the console, but their main product is something graphical. And just to prove that ntop is indeed running in the background. … In brief, ntop collects network information and presents it at regular […]
Once you get iptables working, you’ll probably want iptstate next. As I understand it — and again, networking is not my strong point — iptstate lets you watch traffic as it crosses iptables, and sort or filter it, like top does. And atop, and powertop, and iotop and. … 😯 I can’t show a […]
Seriously, I doubt very much there are people left in the world who don’t know about htop. Not including it would be a blasphemy though. In a very real sense, htop has everything I look for in a well built console application. Color galore, svelte profile, clean line drawing, menus for configuration and commands. And […]
Inconsolation 