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Once you have started down the road of using a *bsd/*nix system, you sooner or later will need some sort of tools, otherwise it's a rather ineffective heater. Some tools have a GUI and installs nicely into your menus, or at least have some defenition of where they can be found in a graphical enviroment.

However some of the most used tools will not have this, and as your knowlege grows as does the toolbox you both want, need and in some cases crave for your daily operation. You might think that you never will need some of these tools, but just because you are using a *bsd/*nix system it's no gaurantee that nothing will ever go wrong. So how do you effectivly manage a local or remote computer? This is where the console tools come in handy, and they may have a steeper learning curve than a GUI tool but once you got the hang of it you will use the console more then the GUI for administrative tasks.

If you think I'm kidding take a look at this page: Command-line-fu. Here they are competeing for the most beautifull and usefull commands you can execute on a single line. It might sound nerdy, but with a single line and some ingenuity you can accomplish and automate some rather asounding tasks.

So what can make you crave a certain tool? Well a lot of things, and to start you off with the most basic ones.

• Secure Sell
• Screen
• The vi editor
• ps and kill
• chmod et. al.
• you and your shell