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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...)
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.084353.29509@kithrup.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:43:53 GMT
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In article <25849@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>I have absolutely _NO_ experience with standalone UNIX boxes.  

Therefore you are not equipped to judge them.  So shut up about them.

>So, from
>your testamonial, I can only assume that the major problems arise either
>from networking or system upgrades or both.  

I've run non-standalone *nix machines, some with lots of users, some with
only one or two.  All have had networking.  My home computer in on a
network, and runs *nix.  My administration consists of:  reading mail sent
to system accounts, deciding 99% of it is just informative stuff that I
don't need to do anything about, and deleting it.  The last thing I had to
do anything about was when news told me that it couldn't write to a
directory, and that was because I'd misconfigured news (silly me).

System administration varies from unix system to unix system.  It is a part
of the system, but is no longer a part of UNIX(tm).  (Some machines don't
even use /etc/passwd for account names.  No more standards in that respect,
although it will, hopefully, change if POSIX can come up with a decent
administration standard that everyone likes and/or can live with.)

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Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
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