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SYSADMIN(1)            DragonFly General Commands Manual           SYSADMIN(1)

NAME
       sysadmin - responsible for everything imaginable that may or may not
       have to do with the system you're using.  Contraction of "system" and
       "administrator"

SYNOPSIS
       sysadmin [-ab] [-cd] [-ef] etc......

DESCRIPTION
       sysadmin takes care of everything, is generally harangued, must be
       supplied with coffee, chocolate, and alcohol in order to function
       properly, cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, and must not be allowed
       to have a life.

       sysadmin is not intended as a user interface routine; other programs
       provide user-friendly front ends; sysadmin is used by everyone who can
       track him [her] down.

       With no flags, sysadmin reads its standard input up to an EOF, or a
       line which sysadmin wishes to parse, and then proceeds to ignore it
       entirely and read news all day. When invoked with the -w option,
       sysadmin reads standard input and responds according to terms of job
       description.

OPTIONS
       -bofh  Go into Bastard Operator From Hell mode.  This option causes
              sysadmin to use tools stored in the /usr/lib/bofh directory to
              parse the standard input and route user tasks appropriately.

       -cd    causes sysadmin to become caffeine-deprived, resulting in system
              slowdowns.

       -b     causes the sysadmin to function normally while augmenting the
              standard input with beer(5).  Can be used with the -t option as
              well, depending upon which version of sysadmin you are running.

       -t     causes the sysadmin to smoke tobacco, which can result in
              significant performance improvement, provided you are running
              the correct version of sysadmin.

       -Cfile Specify an alternate configuration file (sysadmin.cf is the
              standard).

       -dX    set debuggin value to X.

       -fFullname
              Set the full name of the sysadmin.

       -Bf    Create the sysadmin.cf configuration freeze file.

       -lname Sets the name of the "luser" person (that is, originator of a
              given request). -l can only be used by "trusted" users (who are
              listed in sysadmin.cf).

NOTES
       The -t option should not be used with a version of sysadmin which is
       not capable of parsing tobacco input.  Though the functionality of this
       command may seem similar to the -b option, it should not be confused
       with that or the related -c option.

                               25 September 1995                   SYSADMIN(1)