Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But yes, sysadminning requires a 'never act in panic' state of
> > mind.
>
> Does that mean it's like being married?
Hmm. Interesting question.
I think being married is 'never speak thoughtlessly' and sysadminning
is 'never type thoughtlessly'. So they're similar. :)
> Really, I wasn't trying to be
> rude.... Unix requires a different frame of mind than M$ Windows or
> DOS.
I didn't think you were. And yes, it definately does.
> But systems are different and it's difficult to give good,
> generic advice. If you were to have worked as a sysadmin in the
> era/on the hardware that are described in the article that Telsa
> referred to (which is one of my favorites, btw), you'd very likely
> already have used 'sh' and 'echo' to restore a copy of the root file
> system's superblock from one of it's backup locations. :)
Trainee, but not as sysadmin myself, on machines from that era.
Jenn V.
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