From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 25 16:46:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E5837B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-5-212.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.5.212]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8PNkJ721685; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:46:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8PNSea06980; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:28:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200009252328.e8PNSea06980@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Haikal Saadh Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: So what do (unix) sysadmins do anyway? In-reply-to: Message from Haikal Saadh of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:28:28 PDT." <20000925032828.3958.qmail@web1610.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:28:40 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Haikal Saadh writes: > Hi, > This is something I've been wanting to get off my > chest for a bit....What do unix sysadmins do anyway? > I am under the impression that once you setup unix > boxen, they can chug on without any attention at all? Something every one else seems to have missed. When I was a full time sysadmin I spent a lot of time educating users. Things like how to use chmod and why you do not 777 everything and why you don't have to. How to use the tape drive, how to print, how to format text so it prints pretty... One situation in particular the users had data files with 11,000 or so characters per line. The SysV vi in Irix 6.2 had fits. So did Sun's. But vim didn't. In short the sysadmin is the guru who helps the users get their tasks accomplished. Installing the system(s) is only the beginning. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message