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Sysadmin Toolbox Top Ten

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pick-your-poison dept.

Linux.com is running a user writeup of several handy tools by an up-and-coming Linux user. It is always interesting to see how newer users are approaching system customization. What have some of the more seasoned Linux power-users and sys admins put in their "toolbox top 10", and why?

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  1. Phillips Screwdriver by maddskillz · · Score: 3, Funny

    I find it one of my favourite tools for working on computers...linux or other

    1. Re:Phillips Screwdriver by Senzei · · Score: 2, Funny
      I love my ratcheting screw driver for admin work... but for those days where exacting precision is necessary, NOTHING beats duct tape.

      Just make sure to avoid wrinkles and smooth the edges down, otherwise that would just be sloppy work.

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  2. Top 10? Here it is... by yuretz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ls /usr/sbin/ | head -n 10

  3. Re:My Top Ten by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ls? You n00b. In my day, we had echo * and we were grateful for it.

  4. Toolbox? by Stavr0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Let's see... *rummage* *rummage* *rummage*
    • Cluestick, for lightweight attitude readjustment
    • Clue-by-four, when the above doesn't work
    • Baseball Bat of Obviousness, last resort
    Top three, really.
    1. Re:Toolbox? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      You left out the canonical LART, which though it can be anything, traditionally consists of a piece of 1/2" to 3/4" rebar (depending on your size) with a handle crafted by wrapping one end with duct tape. There are times when even the baseball bat is insufficient for attitude correction.

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  5. LART by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He must not have an users becaseu I fair to see any mention of 3lb deadblow hammer, clue by four, or IBM model "M" keyboard to be used as an attitude readjustment tool.

    Intereting that the captcha for this comment is disarm.

  6. High school kid by Syberghost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gui bittorrent clients. MP3 players. This isn't a sysadmin toolkit; this is a catalog of the links on his GNOME desktop.

    My sysadmin toolkit is vi and man. If I need to download an ISO and it's available on bittorrent you know what I'll use? BITTORRENT. WTF do you need a gui for to download a file?

    Things I wouldn't want to live without:

    screen
    ssh
    bash or ksh; I don't care which
    perl
    sed and awk (I'm old, I should be using perl more, sue me)
    ncftp (I know, it's practically gold-plated effemininity, but I like it)
    vim
    GNU grep

    Everything else, I'm good with whatever the OS provides.

  7. Re:Top 10? by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    #7 is the cellphone number of a linux nerd (I almost wrote "with no life who can help you at any hour" but that would have been redundant :-) )

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  8. Re:My Top Ten by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ten commands shall there be,
    One command shall let thee see,
    The next to dupe thy file.
    Another yet to move it,
    And then will thee store them well.
    One command to give command,
    One to edit well.
    One command to seperate,
    and the next to find them.
    One command shall let thee slay,
    And a last for all the noobs.
    All Ten commands ye shall mind,
    And with /bin/emacs bind them.

  9. Re:Tools for *actual* sysadmins by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bash. If you don't know how to write a for-loop in bash to connect to all your hosts and make some changes, you don't know what you're missing.

    You misspelled "doing".

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  10. Re:Torsmo is dead by miscz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Torsmo is dead and has been for some time.

    Did Netcraft confirm this?

  11. Win32 toolbox by glas_gow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Norton
    McAfee
    Disk Defrag
    Regedit
    Spybot
    Adaware
    ctr-alt-del
    Hard Reset
    Reinstall Windows
    Update

    My neice swears by the above

  12. My top ten tools for system administration by Hercynium · · Score: 2, Funny

    My top nine are all perl. The tenth is a sledge hammer.

    Hard liquor would have made the list, but I use that for more than sysadminning.

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  13. Re: Better than Etheral by kognate · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know what I found even better than Etheral: Nethack.

    Yep, a user complains, I monitor the situation in Nethack for a while. Call the
    user back, ask if the problem has resolved itself and 9 times out of 10, it has.

    Nethack has gotten me out of some pretty tight spots. Just, a word of advice, don't eat your pet.