Desert Island Tools?

Question

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Server room survival kit?

If you could pick five commands/tools to have with you to admin a system, what would they be?

Answer 1

• bash
• cat

Everything else is just window dressing ;-)

Answer 2

• vim
• perl
• knife
• swimming shorts / hawaiian shirt
• Claudia Schiffer

Answer 3

• vim
• patch
• diff
• sponge
• sed

Answer 4

debug.com - If you can't do everything with debug, well, I guess you're probably getting real work done.

Answer 5

• perl
• apt-get
• du
• vim
• top

Answer 6

• perl
• lsof
• find
• grep
• telnet

Answer 7

For a windows box:

1. powershell
2. process explorer
3. telnet
4. notepad
5. mmc

Answer 8

In a *nix world, I'd have to pick:

• vim
• curl
• perl
• bash
• apache

Answer 9

In the Windows world:

• Sysinternals Process Explorer
• grep (yes, on Windows)
• WinRAR
• Console2
• My coffee maker

Answer 10

Depends hugely on the system, but for a general Windows one.

• Firefox
• Wireshark
• Process Explorer
• Netcat
• Cain

Answer 11

• lsof
• ps
• ls
• vi
• ip

Answer 12

• Debian netinst CD
• network connection

That's how I setup all my servers anyway...

Answer 13

• aptitude
• autotools
• vim
• gcc
• curl

Answer 14

rsync lsof vim find ssh

Answer 15

• sh
• vim
• ssh
• git
• awk

Interaction, editing, communication, control, automation... what else could you need?