04-01-2009
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Aw man... I didn't even think about the hours too much. I just assumed it would be regular working hours. I definitely want steady working hours though. I really would like to do something IT related though and Unix System Administration was like the closest I could find to what I want to do. Does anyone know any jobs similar I might be interested in with steady regular working hours? I was looking into web development too and that's the next closest thing to what I'm looking to do.
Thanks for the info!
All the Database Admins I've worked with always went home at 17:30 (except for Gil, but he was special) so maybe Database administration is more what you want, or straight user support. Otherwise, yes, programmers all seem to work regular hours, and none of them seem to understand the concept of the support chap being first in and last to go home, they just think we are sad, snif! until they really need to roll out their application now, then we become the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I've often wondered why I do this job, and then I remember the utter satisfaction of bringing a completely borked system back to life at 3am, complete with all its data, ahh, heaven, and the answer to every question that starts "could you just do ...." is always yes, I've already done it.
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finger(1) General Commands Manual finger(1)
NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
[options] user_name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default, lists for each user_name on the system:
o Login name,
o Full given name,
o Terminal write status (if write permission is denied),
o Idle time,
o Login time,
o User's home directory and login shell,
o Any plan the user has placed in file in their home directory,
o Project on which they are working from the file also in the home directory,
o office location and phone number (if known),
o last time the user received the mail, and last time the user read the mail.
Idle time is in minutes if listed as a single integer, hours and minutes if a is present, or days and hours if a is present. Account names
as well as first and last names of users are accepted.
can also be used to list users on a remote machine. The format for user_name is user_name@host. If user_name is not specified, the remote
system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for listing user information.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Suppress printing the user's home directory and shell.
Suppress printing the header that is normally printed
in a short-format printout.
Suppress printing the
file in a long-format printout.
Force ``idle'' output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name, terminal, login time, and idle time are printed.
Force long output format.
Match arguments only on user name.
Suppress printing of the
files
Force quick output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name, terminal, and login time are printed.
Print the user's host name.
Force short output format.
Suppress printing the full name in a short-format printout.
WARNINGS
Only the first line of the file is printed.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
who file
last login file
for users names, offices, ...
plans
projects
mail directory
SEE ALSO
chfn(1), who(1), utmpd(1M).
finger(1)