Was already using free, tail -f and top but I'd forgotten about netstat - 
thanks

                 JW

At 05:07 PM 9/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:02 PM
>Subject: Re: console System monitor?
>
>
> >Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> As I've said several times, my co is in the middle of shifting over to
> >> Linux web and email servers.
> >>
> >> One of my jobs as the new Sys Admin is to find apps that accomplish
>certain
> >> jobs, in similar fashtion to the apps we use on NT.
> >>
> >> One thing we use all the time on NT is a resource meter. Current page
>hits,
> >> current CPU usages, memory usage, SQL querys in progress, etc.
> >>
> >> Probably the most important of these is the CPU, then the mem usage.
> >>
> >> Ok, so I need something that will tell me these types of things, but
>since
> >> we're not running X on this server, it's got to be console-based.
> >>
>top will handle the cpu and mem usage bits you need.  It's pretty
>configurable as well.  For connections going to services, netstat is rather
>good at showing such things.  Check out man netstat for all the options,
>there are plenty.  I have a postgresql server here, and I've found I can
>eyeball whats happening via netstat reasonably well.  A number of log files
>can be watched on the terminal if you use tail with an option.. I think that
>tail -f.  It stands for follow.  You can have the log entries scrolling by
>in the second virtual terminal and just glance at it from time to time.
>Hope  this helps.
>
>Jeff Hogg
>
>
>
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