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The Lounge War Stories Prize of being an Admin - Part 2 Post 302816371 by os2mac on Monday 3rd of June 2013 06:08:22 PM
Old 06-03-2013
At one of my previous positions the company was looking to save money so they would take the average windows admin salary and bump it a bit and not make UNIX knowledge and experience a requirement in the job req. So what they would get was windows admins who wanted to become Unix admins.

Getting them to count to 5 verbally would confirm this because the windows admin would always start with 1 whereas an experienced Unix admin would generally start with 0 because of the way interfaces, disks and Unix in general start with 0 in a numbering scheme.
 

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Foreign(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							Foreign(4)

NAME
Foreign - Logs contact attempts from unknown systems SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/uucp/.Admin/Foreign DESCRIPTION
The /usr/lib/uucp/.Admin/Foreign file lists access attempts by unknown systems. The /usr/lib/uucp/remote.unknown shell script appends an entry to the Foreign file each time a remote computer that is not listed in the local /usr/lib/uucp/Systems file attempts to communicate with that local system. Someone with superuser authority can customize entries in the Foreign file to fit the needs of a specific site by modifying the remote.unknown shell script. EXAMPLES
The following is a sample entry in the Foreign file: Wed Sep 20 20:38:22 CDT 1989: call from the system merlin System merlin, which is not listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Systems file, attempted to log in on September 20 at 10:38 p.m., but the uucp pro- gram did not allow the unknown system to log in. FILES
Describes access permissions for remote systems Describes accessible remote systems Records contacts from unknown systems in the Foreign file Contains the Foreign file and other uucp administrative files RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: uucp(1), uudemon.cleanu(4), uux(1) Daemons: cron(8), uucico(8), uuxqt(1) delim off Foreign(4)
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