It’s very useful, when testing things, to have syslog messages appear in real-time on the screen. This way there is no need to check /var/log/messages all the time.

There are some really useful commands that can give information about the system directly from the console. Some of them are:

The default console resolution can be changed by passing the “vga=value” parameter from GRUB. You can do this at the boot screen or by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. For example:

Ever had the need to change the console font in fedora? I did because using the default font greek characters were completely unreadable. So, here is how to do it.

I use some custom scripts to store data on my ZIP diskettes. I have a dozen of them and when I insert them into the drive they automatically mount. I like this. The problem is that the mount-point gets its name everytime from the diskette’s label, so I have to make my scripts find out [...]

Yesterday I was messing around with UDEV. I own some usb storage devices which are not plugged into my main computer all the time, but only when I need them. In a such situation, the order you plug in the devices has an effect on the way their nodes are created in /dev. For example, [...]