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- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170207.20836@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Nov19.001512.72408@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <sherman.722312029@foster> <By3EK1.9uE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:02:07 GMT
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- In article <By3EK1.9uE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> gjschmid@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Greg Schmidt) writes:
- >In article <sherman.722312029@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
- >>In <1992Nov19.001512.72408@slate.mines.colorado.edu> mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) writes:
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- >>>What does it take for a man, er, person, to become a Unix Wizard ?
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- >>Delete random files and/or directories from the system (like /bin, /usr/bin,
- >>/etc, /dev) and try to recover. You will learn a lot about Unix then.
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- You're a Unix Wizard when you can correct either Kernighan or Ritchie on
- a kernel matter, and be right.
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- Until then, forget it....
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- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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