UNIX Hints & Hacks

Chapter 4. System Monitoring

• 4.1 Monitoring at Boot Time

• 4.2 Starting with a Fresh Install

• 4.3 Monitor with tail

• 4.4 Cut the Log in Half

• 4.5 Mail a Process

• 4.6 Watching the Disk Space

• 4.7 Find the Disk Hog

• 4.8 Watching by grepping the Difference

• 4.9 Monitoring with ping

• 4.10 Monitoring Core Files

• 4.11 Monitoring Crash Files

• 4.12 Remember Daylight Savings Time

• 4.13 Checking the Time

There is never a time in a UNIX administrator's career when a system never has to be monitored. All the systems that an administrator touches have to be monitored at some point and in some way. It might be for security reasons, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, disk utilization, or hardware failures. Whatever the reason, the system has to be ...