First stop: Steve Friedl's So you want to be a consultant...? http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.

First stop: Steve Friedl's So you want to be a consultant...? http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html Steve does a lot of sysadmin consulting work (in addition to software development). Here are some of his shared tidbits: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ He's also the brother of Jeffrey Friedl, author of Mastering Regular Expressions: http://regex.info/ http://regex.info/