On: How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

[ck2]

Your first 5 seconds should probably be

  w
  last
  dmesg

[stevekemp → ck2]

Add "free" and "top" there too.

[cs02rm0 → stevekemp]

I've had df -h write out to the motd before for clients who insisted on tiny slices of disk, no automated monitoring and no manual checking of disk space even after it chewed itself up.

I'm not sure it helped, but it made me feel better.