Hi sammy,
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:24:04AM +0200, sammy ominsky wrote:
> On 15/03/2010, at 09:53, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
>
> > Hi Dov,
> >Not far off at all from the original question. The first thing that I look
> >for in an employee or consultant is is he has this feel for the state that
> >you mention. If the employee has only used Windows or Mac at the GUI level,
> >then the chance of his understanding the system state is very small because
> >the visual pane of Windows and Mac that is designed to make things easy
> >effectively prevents all understanding of the system state.
>
>
>Honestly, even though I spend many hours a day on the command line of debian
>servers, I feel I've ruined myself for linux by delving too far into OS X on
>the command line :)
>
>OS X doesn't prevent understanding of the system state at all, it just
>doesn't force that understanding. If the desire to delve is present, the
>command line offers much deeper system access than the GUI ever could. It's
>very different than linux, though.
>
>Someone plugged a USB drive into one of the servers in a data center in the
>US, and for the life of me, I couldn't think of anything on a debian system
>that would give me a list of all attached disks. On OS X, I'd just type
>'diskutil list' (output at the bottom of this email, if anyone's curious).
>In the end, dmesg told me where to find the disk, but maybe it's time for
>some disk utility on linux that's caught up to the present? cfdisk is great
>if you already know what device you want :)
>
>Anyway, back on topic... My company is considering creating a position for a
>junior sysadmin, and honestly, I'd much rather have a 20-year old with 6
>years of playing with "servers" in his basement than a freshly-minted RHCP or
>whatever.
>
> Anything that does this on linux?
If you have a recent Debian testing (Squeeze), make sure that you have the
package devicekit-disks installed and run:
# devkit-disks --dump
baruch
--
~. .~ Tk Open Systems
=}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{=
- bar...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -
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