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

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

iftop, mtr

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

Dstat

lsof

strace

ltrace

meld, regexxer

ack

tcgrep is good, too.

http://betterthangrep.com/

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