[SGVLUG] so, what command line tools DO you like to install?

Christopher Smith cbsmith at gmail.com
Sat May 12 15:46:33 PDT 2012


I prefer mtr to traceroute.

--Chris

On May 11, 2012, at 4:15 PM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Traceroute and ping are to me some very useful tools to have on any system, and
> 
> it still bugs me that ubuntu does not include traceroute by default ..
> 
> sudo apt-get install traceroute
> 
> I recently tried another tool which I wanted to share called
> 
> iftop
> 
> think "ifconfig" "top" -> iftop
> 
> nice for those ssh sessions where you don't have the graphical
> screen...
> 
> sudo apt-get install iftop
> 
> here's a bit of a writeup on iftop
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-display-bandwidth-usage-on-network-interface-by-host.html
> 
> 
> so, the question, WHAT do you install?
> 
> thanks
> matti


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