What's in your admin toolkit?

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I'll start -- ShellExView. Great little tool.

Oh, and does everybody carry a loaded pendrive, cd/dvd's, or both?

Lastly, what's your most-used tool or app? Mine? Pocket screwdriver

 

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My most-used admin tool? ssh My second most-used tool? nano I like it better than vim as it's easier to use for 95% of what I use a text editor for. Third? I'd probably have to say Google, although my library of books gets used a lot too. Fourth? scp. It's like a secure ftp client that uses ssh as its base. Fifth? A graphical text editor such as Kate or Gedit that shows line numbers and highlights syntax so I have reference points when talking to someone else about where in a php script or file they can find what I'm working on or helping them with.

I have a few graphical tools available to me such as phpmyadmin, webmin, etc... but I rarely use them. I've found it's just faster to work with the configuration files themselves or use the *nix utilities from a bash prompt.

I do use Kompare fair amount. It's a graphical diff tool that shows differences in 2 text files. It's great for finding differences in code or configuration files when troubleshooting issues where something works on one server but not another.

 

ERD Commander.

 

Don't do much admining anymore...

Office 2007 and Project/Visio 2007 are my tools of choice these days
that and Firefox 3