The Sysadmin's Secret Weapons

by Rick Moen

Presentation at the August 2001 LinuxWorld Expo (This write-up will also be available at http://linuxmafia.com/lwce2001/.)


This talk will concern several underappreciated, powerful software tools for system administration.





Further resources:

SSH:
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients

Screen:
http://www.gnu.org/directory/screen.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html

Kibitz:
http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidstaff/libes/
http://www.scriptics.com/man/expect5.31/kibitz.1.html
http://www.certif.com/goodies/kibitz/

Rsync:
http://rsync.samba.org/

Sudo:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/

Enscript:
http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/

Netcat:
http://www.l0pht.com/~weld/netcat/

CVS:
http://www.cvshome.org/
http://subversion.tigris.org/

find:
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html