On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > To: CentOS discussion list <centos at centos.org> > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> > Subject: [CentOS] looking for cool, > post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system > > ... > > over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in RHEL admin > but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5. it's a > decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic, standard admin > topics but it does leave me about a 1/2 day to throw in any cool stuff > i want to add. Adding Multimedia capabilities Using SQLite3 from the command line Creating a Database Creating and populating a table Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting data in the database Remote login sessions using ssh -X Intro to nmap, nessus and Metasploit Intro to Firefox plugins, eg Firebug How to find and install other usefull FF plugins. Obviously the list is endless really. HTH Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------