Linux System Admins Blog » software / tools http://linuxsysadminblog.com System admins of Promet - an e-commerce, high availability Open Source web shop - share their findings Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SysAdmin Tool of the Week: Terminator http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/11/sysadmin-tool-of-the-week-terminator/ http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/11/sysadmin-tool-of-the-week-terminator/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:56 +0000 gerold http://linuxsysadminblog.com/?p=970 This week we have Terminator – a split window terminal emulator. This tool is very helpful if you use terminal windows to connect to several servers at the same time. Usually, we have multiple separate windows or the tabs, but on this one you can have split windows or grid. Below are the features and those in bold are the features i really like.

Features:
* Arrange terminals in a grid
* Tabs
* Drag and drop re-ordering of terminals
* Lots of keyboard shortcuts
* Config file to override gnome-terminal settings
* Simultaneous typing to arbitrary groups of terminals

You can install it via “yum install terminator” or “apt-get install terminator“.

Screenshots from Tenshu.net:

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For our Sysadmin Tool of the Week it is Update Scout. This site notifies you for updates or new version of software. It contain hundreds (and increasing) of applications – linux, windows, mac, website apps and tools. Like in my case I monitor Wordpress, Drupal, Apache, MySQL, KeePass, Nagios and many other, so it’s very helpful to just wait for an email to arrive rather than thinking about them, checking manually, or sign up to each of them.

Get Started:
- signup: just add your email and password
- select applications you want to monitor for updates
- add your own application if it’s not on the list

Site Features:
- Latest Updates, Latest Additions, Most Popular and Most Active sections
- Browse list of monitored applications from A-Z or using tags
- MyUpdate-Scout for list of your monitored applications

Do you have similar or better tool than this? :)

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