Sysadmins: What is your trick that you thought everyone knew?

Named pipe for animated .plan for current sysadmin status and/or sms messaging to on-call person.

Works until non-computer manager misunderstands give sysadmin the "digit".

Using the unix magic cookie with mit magic cookie to bypass ssh no x forwarding settings.

Turn it off and back on again

I always thought was an old wives tale. So it's not a myth?

I must say it's never worked for me when my light bulbs stop working.

Yes, the very important detail left off was needed to be 'on/off' rebooted. The boolean off by one error.

TZDATA reboot is not a recognized clock cleaning method.