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• The sys admin’s daily grind: Sysdig

  In this issue, sys admin columnist and tool veterinarian Charly Kühnast invites Sysdig, the jack-of-all-trades among system diagnostic tools, into his surgery for a quick checkup. The project promises to unite the functionality of lsof, iftop, netstat, tcpdump, and others.

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• lsof

  In Linux, everything is a file – directories, devices, pipes – so lsof (list open files) reveals what's happening on your system.

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• The sys admin's daily grind: Users and groups

  This time Charly investigates the three most frequently asked questions about user groups.

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• Charly's Column

  Well-used services write reams of log information to disk, which is not only bothersome from a storage perspective but also pushes grep and the usual group of statistics tools to their limits. Will hitching the syslog daemon up to a database help?

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