Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:22:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysadmin levels today? Message-ID: <199707310322.XAA18269@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <199707310251.MAA25263@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 31, 97 12:21:47 pm"
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> I went on a support call this morning, for a mail gateway/web proxy I > installed a couple of weeks back. The customer in question is a > software development house; the BSD system is in a room full of > Decstations and SCO boxen on which they do their work. > > I spent an hour of my time, as well as that of three of their > developers and one of the directors teaching them : > > How to edit the /etc/aliases file to forward mail. > > Unbelievable. I hope you charged well. BTW -- I found that application developers were less likely to learn the administrative workings of their systems then tech support types or helpdesk types. If they're lucky they hire a good competent admin and keep the coders coding instead of trying to figure out how to make rsh or tcpip or uucp work. It saves a lot of money. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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