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