[TriLUG] essential Linux skills? (OT, humor)

[William Sutton]

Some of us on #trilug have come up with a representative list:

1. perform a sendmail to qmail conversion
2. checking crontab syntax with cron tools
3. lsattrs for filesystems not using ACLs
4. mainstream distros use of nonstandard file system tables for network 
file systems
5. Using bleeding edge Linux distributions in a production environment
6. creating a gui wrapper around ping using kdialog
7. using Nagios and openNMS to map all the pr0n servers on the internet
8. testing vnc, rdp, nx and x11 by loopback mounting your localhost
9. Multiple nested sessions with vnc and Xnest
10. Protecting yourself from yourself:  ssh root at localhost
11. recursive use of fork to test your system's memory allocation 
abilities
12. check load averages with while (true); do uptime; done
13. Setting up a firewall with 'iptables -F INPUT -j DROP<click><connection refused>
14. restoring connection by 'iptables -F INPUT'

Feel free to amend the list...or at least get a good chuckle.