The FreeBSD SysAdmin's Favorite Tools

[Pushrod]

Netcat (nc) and perl.

 

[liamjfoy]

hey guys, you don't watch your logs?

tail -f *.log

Nods.

 

[liamjfoy]

OpenSSH is clearly the winner here - by miles.

 

[r-c-e]

I've been using bruteblock a lot recently for stopping bruteforce attacks on sshd. Regexp patterns are nice for custom items.

 

[GD]

Porteasy to update and install ports.

porteasy (in ports-mgmt category)

-i can pull a port not having to have the entire ports tree in /usr/ports. You have ONLY the ports you install !

 

[bsddaemon]

I like porteasy very much. Not much exaggeration to say it is a must have tool if the HDD space is precious.

Btw, a CVS server is needed when running porteasy, Im just wondering what is happenning to CVS servers in US and Japan? I always struggle to connect to them :S

 

[cajunman4life]

hey guys, you don't watch your logs?

tail -f *.log

Of course you mean tail -F (for those of us who rotate logs )

 

[Dara]

cvsup, vi, sed/awk, netstat, sockstat, mytop and in the center of it all Hobbit (xymon..)