Showing posts with label admin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label admin. Show all posts

2008-07-24

Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

Featuring:

  • Unmounting the unresponsive DVD drive (fuser);
  • Getting your screen back when it's hosed (reset);
  • Collaboration with screen;
  • Getting back the root password (booting up in single-user mode);
  • SSH back door;
  • Remote VNC session through an SSH tunnel;
  • Checking your bandwidth (iperf);
  • Command-line scripting and utilities (for loops, pipes);
  • Spying on the console (cat /dev/vcsX);
  • Random system information collection;


(From Linux.com)