I’ve been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I’m missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.

Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find ‘foo’, and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of ‘foo’.

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    are you using a maintained alternative? Distros started to remove it from their repos years ago because it was not maintained anymore afaik

    • Jo Miran
      1•4 months ago

      I have no idea where you got that from. 5.0.1 is from August 2025.

      • Eager EagleEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        maybe they resumed development then, it was removed from Ubuntu and RHEL repos about 5 years ago when I had to look for an alternative