Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? 651
jman251 asks: "I am presenting at a conference in September on a couple of Linux-centric topics. One of these is a collection of tips, tricks, and tools for configuring, securing, and maintaining a Linux-based server. I have a short list of tools I use, but would like some community input on the subject. What tools do you use that make your admin responsibilities easier or more automated on the Linux platform?"
rm (Score:5, Funny)
That'll teach those pesky users....
Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Knoppix is a nice solution too when I don't have time.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmmmm. (Score:5, Funny)
Emacs! No, vi! No, Arrrrrrgh!
List is here... (Score:1, Funny)
Tim. (Score:5, Funny)
Easy-peasy.
Or I just do what Vigor [sourceforge.net] tells me to do.
Re:The one true Text Editor! (Score:5, Funny)
Vi user 2: Mesmerize this so-called-pico-mesiah
Slashdot winfiend1: I for one....
Slashdot winfiend2: Imagine a
Emacs user 1: Damn, the vimers beat us to the hangin!... we cant say kill him, they already did...
Emacs user 2: Its Gnu-Pic.... oh wait...
Re:Webmin is nice (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't you be asking (Score:5, Funny)
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hel
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
Re:rm (Score:1, Funny)
rm -rf /dev/*
This really happened to me when my "assitant" attempted to recover disk space by deleting all of those extra entries in the /dev directory. *sigh*
Re:SSH. (Score:3, Funny)
I was thinking the same thing, I have active ssh connections to servers nearly around the clock.
Re:rm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In a word (Score:5, Funny)
my ass, perl is GOD
Re:Hmmmmm. (Score:2, Funny)
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929
- -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
h
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
- ---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Re:Hmmmmm. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmmmm. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In a word (Score:5, Funny)
Well it sure doesn't act like it sometimes.
Re:Hmmmmm. (Score:5, Funny)
N073P@D OWNZ JOO!
Actually... (Score:2, Funny)
Dammit. I hate being a Linux virgin. Or does a semi-successful installation of Mandrake Linux 8.x on a Dell laptop count? No? Still got the Linux cherry? DAMMIT!
IronChefMorimoto
just basic tools... (Score:4, Funny)
"Awk!" sed perl.
"Make sum nice tee, joe," sed man.
Computer Management ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dave Lettermans Top 10 (Score:5, Funny)
A is for awk, which runs like a snail
B is for biff, which reads all your mail
C is for cc, as hackers recall
D is for dd, the command that does all
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees
G is for grep, a clever detective
H is for halt, which may seem defective
I is for indent, which rarely amuses
J is for join, which nobody uses
K is for kill, which makes you the boss
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS
M is for more, from which less was begot
N is for nice, which really is not
O is for od, which prints out things nice
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable
R is for ranlib, for sorting a table
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle
T is for true, which does very little
U is for uniq, which is used after sort
V is for vi, which is hard to abort
W is for whoami, which tells you your name
X is, well, X, of dubious fame
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression
Re:They all start with "nano -wiR /etc/" (Score:3, Funny)
Blbbbbph..... (Score:5, Funny)
If Perl is God, then nobody would be able to understand the bible.
... oh wait.
Re:Actually... (Score:2, Funny)
You're preaching to the choir. Or did you mean that you're new to using/installing Linux?
Pico, you dick mods. (Score:5, Funny)
When I don't have time to figure out goddamn control chars, and just want to edit a config file without having to resort to IRC, man pages, and poor documentation -
I USE FUCKING PICO.
All the commands are right there. On the screen.
Maybe this elitist attitude is why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Now mod me Troll, bitches.
/bin/sash (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmmmm. (Score:5, Funny)
Editing text files?
Right. (Score:4, Funny)
My 10 favorite linux configuration tools? Let's see: