1 - How to connect to a server using SSH without a password
2 - How would you check if $DATABASE is running and how would you start it if it wasn't. Bonus points: how do you make it start automatically at next reboot
Is 1. really that trivial? If I recall there's some really weird convention about usernames across both platforms (assuming *nix) having to be identical, in addition to fiddling around with the RSA keys.
2 - How would you check if $DATABASE is running and how would you start it if it wasn't. Bonus points: how do you make it start automatically at next reboot
3 - Show me the processes using the most CPU