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stanley on April 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Htop - better top

What are some other must-have applications you guys find useful?

atsaloli on April 16, 2010 | [–]

Here are the tools I find indispensible as a sys admin:

- screen for accessing servers

- lshw for seeing Linux server hardware config

- cfengine for automating my system administration

cdmwebs on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

lsof

davidw on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

strace

codepoet on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

ltrace

codepoet on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

iftop, mtr

influx on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Dstat

JulianMorrison on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

meld, regexxer

apphacker on April 16, 2010 | [–]

ack

juvenn on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

http://betterthangrep.com/

chbarts on April 16, 2010 | | [–]

tcgrep is good, too.

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