linux.com — I've been a system administrator since 1988, working mainly with Solaris and one or two versions of BSD. Here are some of the things I use all the time, including a number of scripts I've written myself to leverage already useful *nix tools; they're not flashy, but they save me a ton of keystrokes.
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grndlvlJul 26, 2006
How could it be old if the article is dated for Tuesday July 25, 2006 (08:01 AM GMT), hrmm intresting.
derklesJul 26, 2006
I was about to cry dupe till i actually read the article. Yes, this is a definite keeper for me.
muyuuJul 26, 2006
No big deal, since both vim and emacs crap your HD with temp files by default.
kcoraxJul 26, 2006
I bet one could make a greasemonkey script to filter out these comments by heuristics...
donthorntonjrJul 27, 2006
not to nitpick but...I was in the USAF from '87 to '91 and we ran every SunOS from 3.2 through 4.0-5 (a pre-release of Solaris).We even had access to all of the source code.IIRC - Sun switched from BSD to SysV at the behest of the US DoD.
falschparkerJul 27, 2006
using earlier solaris versions (or sunOS, maybe he wanted to say this by "different versions of BSD"), the best toolbox was sunfreeware to install GNU tools and forget about the scripts he wrote. every sysadmin has started writing his toolset for custom log rotation, gpg signed file passing, rsync analyzers, build-tree notation meta languages, cvs/svn deployment makefiles and other things you need from time to time.... but in the end... come on... reality catches up. on the one system you need it, you don't have it and for some strange random reason or the platform is different in exactle the one cause that doesn't let you run it.it's like writing cheat sheets at school. once you wrote it, you don't really need it anymore because your habits change and you found out an elegant way to solve problems without. and in the rare cases where your script is really useful over a longer period, break it down to the functionality, rewrite it in c, put it on sourceforge and craft a debian-, maybe a sun package too for your install servers.but it's true, it's old news - otherwise, sysadmins wouldn't have done their job for some decades ;)