This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01BFF62A.3FE53AF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am now comfortable administering our entire mixed NT/linux environment = from the safety of my Mandrake 7.1 admin box (Samba, VNC, ethereal, = etc). Now that I am comfortable with basic administration, I am wading = through the vast amounts of open source programs in an effort to amass a = versatile, linux based, sysadmin toolbox. I am just curious as to what = programs other sysadmins feel are "essential" to their administration = routine. I know that there is no defacto standard group of programs = that come to mind when administrating a network, but perhaps fellow = sysadmins could share the various implements contained within their = proverbial Linux syasadmin swiss army knife. Sorry for the long post = and I apologize if I am being too vague.=20 - Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, = the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; = he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final = rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." - Dr. Robert Jastrow Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space studies ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01BFF62A.3FE53AF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable