Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin From: szielins@prodhp.us.oracle.com (Stephan Zielinski) Subject: Re: jr.unix administrator In article <2l56kf$e6u@panix.com> datronic@panix.com (Les Patron) writes: > >Jr. Unix Administrator position im MI. Skills required. HP UX environment, >nice to have, not required. 1 to 2 years experience Corn Shell; >Administration of system, write shell scripts. Corn Shell? Preposterous! The Born Shell was good enough for R & K and it's good enough for me! It's ever worse nowadays, though... I see the degenerate kids with their See Shells and their Tea Shells practicing disgusting mount-crossings with NSF. I say, enough! A Real System Administrator uses a text-pass word file-- not White Pages! When I was a boy, we had SIMPLE systems, that WORKED. Nowadays every single vendor is suffering from Colonel bloat (which comes from having too many Major device numbers, of course.) No fancy sysad menus for us-- when we wanted to re-boot the machine, it was sink-sink-sink and go! Hah! Ah, well. Maybe it's time to retrain and get modern after all. Can anybody recommend a good Pearl book?