This is a small list of some really nice linux tools I recommend every sysadmin to have somewhere. dstat Combines vmstat, iostat, ifstat, netstat information and more http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/#documentation vnstat The best to monitor how much data was transfered tx/rxhttp://humdi.net/vnstat/ iftop […]
Ethan Galstad Nagios creator
Ethan Galstad is the father of Nagios. I had a amazing oportunity to met him in person on the first Latin Nagios Conference held in Sao Paulo in april 2011.] I learned a lot from that experience and was suprising […]
facebook delete all messages button
I find it really really anoying that facebook removed the “Delete All” button. For me its clear that they do not want anyone to remove the messages, so they can sell this information to anyone who is willing to pay […]
File cleanup script for Linux
Sometimes disks fill up with logs for example, and we the administrators have to login sometimes even wake up just to delete log files! Well this script solves the problem. In this case I used to cleanup Glassfish log files. […]
mytop mysql
I would like to share the ultimate MySQL performance debugger tool. Written by my friend Nereu. The output is like this The code: #!/usr/bin/perl # # 2011-11-03 Nereu # 2011-11-05 Nereu – mytop # use DBI; # EDIT HERE FOR […]
check_file_age
I wrote to scripts with the same idea, to monitor a file age, I have written it also in vbs in the past. Now I did it in bash and php. BASH Version, example: check_file_age.sh /opt/solr-3.4.0/app/solrrioshow/conf/dataimport.properties 1440 1441 UPDATED: Its […]
CHECK FTP DIR
I needed to check if operation was happening. The doubt was, Is the FTP files being copied over every day to the server? To be sure I wrote this PHP script to check. It goes into the FTP server and […]