Here's the sort of command line I can wind up typing:

spam/wtd daemon | expsyslog.pl | tcpwrhits -i | sed 10q |while (read foo) { n=`{echo $foo}; echo '| '^$n '|' `{checksmtp $n(2)}; }

(This will probably be wrapped in your browser, but it is all one line.)

I wrote that on the fly, in one pass, although I had

ftp.heanet.ie serves a huge volume of mostly static file downloads withApache on a single machine. This results in interesting Apache tuningissues, among other things.

• Scaling Apache 2.x beyond 20,000 concurrent downloads [PDF]; just the title alone gives you the flavour.
• Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown (Niagara is the new Sun server box and chipset.)
• Niagara Benchmarks: Update

If this sort of thing is your cup of tea, much of Colm MacCá

I've mentioned quilt before ;it's a package for managing a series of patches. One of the things it'sreally handy for is modifying source RPMs (which themselves are mostlya series of patches on top of a base source tree, hence the good fit).However, there's a bit of arcana involved in the process, so it's usefulto have an example.

(Since my margin is only so big, I'm going to assume that you'rebroadly