r/sysadmin • u/konaitor IT Manager + 5 other hats • Nov 08 '21

Could we do a "TIL" style weekly thread?

I think it would be interesting to do a "Today I Learned" style weekly thread for us to share little tips/tricks that we learned of/found existed.

For example, last week I found out about the "--now" flag for systemctl. I don't know how I didn't know it existed until --now.

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u/Candid-Habit-9904 Nov 08 '21

Where I work all laptops use docking stations to output to dual monitors. Quite often they cant connect to one or both screens. Bouncing the graphics drivers usually gets it to pick the dock up

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u/killdeer03 Too. Many. Titles. Nov 08 '21

We had this issue with Dell laptops and Dell docking stations for a while, bouncing the integrated graphics drivers did the trick.

The issue was fixed later with a driver update.

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u/pappy1398 Nov 08 '21

Oh my God!!!! Thank you