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My sysadmin toolbox

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I'm continually astounded by the depth and variety of the tools available for Linux, particularly for system administrators or even those who run just a regular Linux workstation. While other administrators in my Windows shop struggle with costly Windows GUI-based programs to get their data, I just smile and go back to my toolbox. What follows are some useful programs that I use on a daily basis.

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Skapare ·
The "mt" command takes the value of an environment variable named TAPE as the name of the tape device it will use. If you have only one tape device, then all you need to do is set that environment variable once at the start of your session, or include it in your shell initialtization.

For sh, bash, and ksh users: export TAPE=/dev/st0

for csh and tcsh users: setenv TAPE /dev/st0

Then you can just omit the -f option and tape name on all your "mt" commands. It's still usable in case you have a 2nd tape device you occasionally use.

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