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[stanley]

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

[atsaloli → stanley]

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

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lsof

[davidw → stanley]

strace

[codepoet → davidw]

ltrace

[codepoet → stanley]

iftop, mtr

[influx → codepoet]

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

Dstat

[JulianMorrison → stanley]

meld, regexxer

[apphacker → stanley]

ack

[juvenn → apphacker]

http://betterthangrep.com/

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tcgrep is good, too.