SYSADMIN(1)SYSADMIN(1)NAMEsysadmin - responsible for everything imaginable that may or may not
have to do with the system you're using. Contraction of "system" and
"administrator"
SYNOPSISsysadmin [-ab] [-cd] [-ef] etc......
DESCRIPTIONsysadmin takes care of everything, is generally harangued, must be sup‐
plied with coffee, chocolate, and alcohol in order to function prop‐
erly, 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, sysad‐
min 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 sig‐
nificant 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)
