LXer: My sysadmin toolbox
 

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I run two servers that host a couple of Web sites for customers, including two wikis and a forum, and ordinary static HTML sites. The wikis, the photo gallery, and the phpBB forum are especially important to keep an eye on. The maintenance of the Web server and the mail server is a one-man show, so I have to watch them all the time and try to automate whatever is possible. My toolbox includes Mutt, rss2email, Midnight Commander, and more.

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Of course, how much should you trust a sysadmin who uses Telnet to connect to the servers across the Internet........

Suppose the guy has never heard of SSH?