10 Admin Tips

July 26, 2008 | Tips & Tricks | By: admin

10 Admin Tips
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Paul Vasarhelyi

Tips are often little hacks that are passed on from one user to another. In this case, it is passed on from one admin to another, with hopes that it will make life easier for system administrators. BTW, have you shown appreciation to your administrator lately? :)

Anyway, IBM shares 10 tips for administrators. These are:

  • How to unmount an unresponsive DVD drive
  • How to get your screen back when it is hosed
  • How to do collaboration with screen
  • How to get back your root password
  • How to use the SSH backdoor
  • How to do Remote VNC sessions thru SSH tunnels
  • How to check your bandwidth
  • How to enhance your command line script-fu
  • How to spy on the console
  • How to collection random system information

Jump over to the site and get all the details. Am sure that it will help you make life easier. :)


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