Re: Sys Admins Wanted

Colin Panisset (Colin.Panisset@nospam.nms.otc.com.au)
Thu, 5 May 1994 14:19:54 +1000 (EST)

Once upon a time, -s93080036-a.young-com-400- was heard to say:

} > Sysadmin duties include creating accounts, compiling and installing
} > software as needed, requested or desired, answering questions from users
} > and fixing things when they break and occasionally breaking things when
} > they're fixed.
}
} Would we have access to information needed to answer some of these questions?

Nope -- you'll have to learn it the hard way, like we did. There wasn't
anyone to ask back then... if you wanted to know how a thing worked, you
had to read the source. In hex! From paper tape!

[ ... consider the rest of the four yorkshiremen paraphrase inserted ... ]

There are online manuals, offline manuals, and other people to ask. You'll
probably learn a lot in the first two months.

} Tony...

-- Colin.