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Full Discussion: Prize of being an Admin - Part 2
The Lounge War Stories Prize of being an Admin - Part 2 Post 302816783 by Corona688 on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 02:31:26 PM
Old 06-04-2013
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Originally Posted by saurabh.mishra
My point is things when they are too simple as unix is meant to be as everything is a file they actually become complicated.
Let's not turn this into a religious war. I'm sure Windows admins would complain at being called "much simpler", even Smilie

I disagree that Windows standards are more "intuitive". Ask anyone who's new to computing, they'll have no idea what they're looking at. It's just what everyone learns in the office...

UNIX can certainly be obscure in some ways. It's an operating system for programmers. The straightforward interface keeps programs simple, not necessarily the system. You don't need to be a programmer to use it, but you'll be at a disadvantage if you don't. It also opens up a lot of possibilities.
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I recall my first job when I just had to bounce tomcat however I was fresh out of school and could not catch the terminology and went ahead asking a very senior guy and found out they just wanted a restart.
It's just slang, not a UNIX term. Like all slang in all languages, it can be baffling to anyone who's not a native speaker.

So, I think one way to check for UNIX experience, would be to ask them to write a quick shell script without consulting a cheat sheet...
Last edited by Corona688; 06-04-2013 at 03:54 PM..
 

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errors

errors(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 errors(4)

NAME

       errors - Contains a record of uucico daemon errors

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/errors

DESCRIPTION

       The /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/errors file contains a record of uucico daemon errors that the uucp program cannot correct.  For example, if the
       uucico daemon is unable to access a directory that is needed for a file transfer, the uucp program records this in  the	errors	file.	If
       debugging is enabled for the uucico daemon, the uucp program sends the error messages to standard output instead of to the errors file.

EXAMPLES

       Following   is  the  text  of  an  error  that  might  appear  in  the  errors  file:  ASSERT ERROR (uucico) pid: 303 (7/18-8:25:09)  SYS-
       TAT OPEN FAIL /usr/spool/uucp/.Status/ (21) [SCCSID: @(#)systat.c   7.2 87/07/08 16:43:37, FILE: systat.c, LINE:100]

       This error occurred on July 18 at 8:25:09 a.m.  [(7/18-8:25:09)] when the uucico daemon, running as process 303 [(uucico) pid: 303],  could
       not  open  the  /usr/spool/uucp/.Status directory [SYSTAT OPEN FAIL /usr/spool/uucp/.Status/].  To prevent this error from occurring again,
       you should make sure the permissions for the .Status directory are correct.  It should be owned by the uucp login ID and group  uucp,  with
       permissions of 777 (read, write, and execute for owner, group, and all others).

FILES

       Contains  the  errors file and other uucp administrative files Lists the last time a remote system was contacted and the minimum time until
       the next retry

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: uudemon.cleanu(4)

       Daemons: uucico(8) delim off

																	 errors(4)
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