Theoretical vs Practical Knowledge

[David Wolfskill]

>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:28:55 -0800
>From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+baylisa at snew.com>

>Well, obviously you mount the mailq noatime and
>you set syslog to stop fsyncing (many  modern syslogs
>allow this, sun's doesn't).

Or tell syslog to go scribble on some other machine altogether (which I
believe Sun's *does* permit)....  :-}

>I have a boss now who is infamous to the people to came after
>him for "describe all the options to ls." It's an icebreaker.
>When a "sr system admin" manages to list 4 and stop then you
>know s/he's faking it.  The sr. people know that it's pretty
>large.

I think my response to that would likely be "For a complete list, `man
ls`; off the top of my head, it's going to depend on whose "ls" we're
talking about, but some usually-encountered options are ...."

>And yeah, coming from the era of NSF funded connections,
>when I get nervous I transpose those at times.  Hell, my
>film background has caused me to talk about SMPTE protocols :)

:-}

Cheers,
david
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