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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:24:46 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Cc:        adrian@virginia.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is bsdish?
Message-ID:  <199604041924.MAA22248@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604041656.LAA06719@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Apr 4, 96 11:56:19 am

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> > 	Well, the Aeleen Frish's "Essential System Administration" uses 
> > the presence or absence of /etc/inittab to classify machines.  It's 
> > pretty goot all in all. 

[ ... ]

> Yup.  Inittab is about the equivalent for checking the gender of a
> Unix what genitals are to humans. 

No. that's "ps".

Inittab is hair color, since it's a good idea, and good ideas shouldn't
be killed because they have ugly parents.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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