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Check the age of the filesystem
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How much RAM is Apache using?
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count of down available ips
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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.

list files recursively by size

Open the last file you edited in Vim.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

shows history of logins on the server
outputs a history of logins on the server (top 10, when piped to 'head'); optional flags: '-a' put the hostname at the end of the line (good for long hostnames), '-i' post the IP instead of the hostname, '-F' put the full login and logout times, rather than short times.

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