Ask HN: Saving time in sysadmin

4 pointsby sharjeelvor 18 Jahren3 comments

Lately I've found myself too much involved in sysadmin, editing configuration files, monitoring certain things and writing scripts by hand.

My stack is Ubuntu 8.04, MySQL, Apache and Django.

I have used webmin. I was wondering if there are any other good tools out there which can save my time. I have used webmin which I've found really helpful but any other stuff? What do you use for sys admin related stuff?

3 comments

Harkinsvor 18 Jahren

Check out puppet: http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/

I sort of want to build a startup around making a distro that maintains itself.

davidwvor 18 Jahren

Try and automate the repetitive bits. Python is a great language for that kind of thing.

agentbleuvor 18 Jahren

I use virtualmin instead