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Nice!

I'm testing Claude Code using the linux-mcp-server to read system information directly from my local machine.

This is a huge enabler for LLM-assisted troubleshooting. It can read logs, check the journal, inspect systemd units, and pull hardware info in real-time.

Repo: https://github.com/rhel-lightspeed/linux-mcp-server

Great Fedora writeup: https://fedoramagazine.org/find-out-how-your-fedora-system-really-feels-with-the-linux-mcp-server/

#Linux #Fedora #LLM #AI #OpenSource #DevOps #ClaudeCode #MCP

Screenshot of a terminal interface showing 'Claude Code' execution. The system successfully performed 6 MCP calls including get_cpu_information and get_disk_usage. The output shows the system is running Fedora Linux 43 on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO with 23GB of RAM.

Torsten Materna

@torstenmaterna@mastodon.social replied · yesterday

@Larvitz Wie cool. Danke für den Tipp.

Ilkka Tengvall

@ikkeT@mementomori.social replied · yesterday

@Larvitz funny detail that it gives very accurate and useful info, yet it tells to use apt on fedora.

Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

@Larvitz@burningboard.net replied · yesterday

@ikkeT That's then the LLM/AI Model. The linux-mcp-server just is the technical interface for the AI to gather Linux system information.

Peter König

@peter_koenig@gruene.social replied · 2 days ago

@Larvitz

A way cheaper is to use zed/zeditor and #DeepSeek in agent mode - or to use an AI-chat of your choice to build a script to (remote) execute it on your machine, to read and to analyze the output. Such a DeepSeek task costs nearly nothing.

And to be honest:

For me there is definitely no difference between an #US- or #China-AI

in both cases you should very (very!) carefully look for your secrets and probably work only in test environments with fake IDs and fake PWDs.

Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

@Larvitz@burningboard.net replied · 2 days ago

@peter_koenig Well, linux-mcp-server is purpose built, delivers structured data to the LLM (can be any US/China model). Also the MCP-Server is purposely built READ ONLY, so it can't execute commands that modify something.

Peter König

@peter_koenig@gruene.social replied · 2 days ago

@Larvitz

Ah, sorry. I got it wrong: I was just triggered by "Claude to get machine state", which I thought might be pretty expensive for this task.

You are using the mcp-server to parse the state of the machine while it is executing the code, Claude created. And its output, right?

My 2ct: I Usually design more complex, multi stage prompts with control-neccessities in an ai-chat (Claude, Gemini -> pseudo code, snippets, scripts) that are executed & analyzed by the zed ai-agt, me & the chat-ai.

Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

@Larvitz@burningboard.net replied · 2 days ago

@peter_koenig Just published something that shows it more indepth: https://blog.hofstede.it/interactive-system-troubleshooting-with-ai-the-linux-mcp-server/

It's not primarily targeted to software developers, but more to utilize AI to troubleshoot Linux issues.

Interactive System Troubleshooting with AI: The Linux MCP Server | Larvitz Blog

How the linux-mcp-server bridges AI assistants and Linux systems for interactive diagnostics, enabling natural language troubleshooting and system analysis.

skryking

@skryking@infosec.exchange replied · 2 days ago

@Larvitz them giving the mcp server protocol to the Linux foundation was rather cool I think...opens up access to all sorts of tools.

Chilli :prami:

@chilli@social.lol replied · 2 days ago

@peter_koenig @Larvitz Well, there goes my Christmas Day 🫣😂 so, as i understand it, i install linux-mcp-server on my home server. I’ll need access to a backend LLM - is this done via an API call? Is that everything, or do i need goose as the Fedora article mentioned too?

gary

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange replied · 2 days ago

@Larvitz webmin needs ai

Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

@Larvitz@burningboard.net replied · 2 days ago

@gary_alderson I prefer Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org), since that't the more modern approach to web-based Linux management 🙂

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