sysadmin(8)            2 October 1995           Version 0.1.2 Reference Manual

NAME:
sysadmin - user interface to system management protocol. 

SYNOPSIS:
sysadmin [-abBcCdefpqrstw] lusername

DESCRIPTION:
sysadmin takes care of everything, is generally harrangued, must be
supplied with coffee(5), chocolate(5), and alcohol(5) in order to function
properly, cannot be exposed to direct sunlight and must not have a
life(8). 

Contraction of "systems" and "administrator". Responsible for everything
imaginable onsite that may or may not have to do with the
systems/services in question.

Sysadmin was not intended as a user-interface routine; other programs
should provide their own user-friendly front-ends. Traditionally, sysadmin
is used by everyone who can track him/her down regardless of
specification.

When called with no command line options, sysadmin reads its standard
input to an EOF, or to a line which sysadmin wishes to parse, and then
proceeds to ignore it entirely, reads news and/or play x-games all day
instead.

OPTIONS:
-a
start sysadmin in "argument" mode. useful for appropriations and budget
meetings. starts "antogonize" mode if sysadmin is started with
lusername command line argument.

-bofh - Enter "Bastard Operator From Hell" mode.
This option when invoked, causes sysadmin to use tools stored in
/usr/lib/bofh directory to parse stdin and fork user tasks appropriately.

-bbrandname
Causes sysadmin to function normally while augmenting the standard
input with beer(5), scotch(5), and whiskey(5). Can also be used in
conjunction with the -t switch, dependant on which version of sysadmin
you are running.

-Bf
Creates the sysadmin.cf configuration and freezes the file.

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

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

-dX
Sets the degugging value to X.

-e
causes sysadmin to fork an Expound_Clue process to background piped
to /dev/luser.

-fdevice
set sysadmin to pipe all flames to given device.

-p[on|off]
this flag tells sysadmin whether or not it will attach to /dev/ATTx after
RING input.

-q
quit - causes sysadmin to reject input from clueless management.

-r[ignore|despise]
set sysadmin "ringer" option. this determines whether RING inputs from
/dev/ATTx will be passed for further processing.

-s
spawn sysadmin in "sleep" mode.

-tbrandname
Causes sysadmin to smoke tobacco, which can result in significant
performance gains, provided you are running the correct version of
sysadmin.

-w
cause sysadmin to parse work input and process. never used. included
to maintain backwards compatibility.

NOTES:
The -t option should not be attempted with a version of sysadmin that is
not capable of parsing tobacco input. Though the functionality of this
command may seem similar in nature to the -b option, it is not, and
should be kept seperate. The same applied for the -cd option, which
when combined with the -b option, could render your sysadmin totally
inaccessible for long periods of time.

Calling sysadmin with a command line lusername automatically adds
lusername to the .kill file.

SEE ALSO:
luser(0).

FILES:
/etc/sysadmin.cf - sysadmin configuration
~root/coffee.db - hashed database of coffee recipes
~root/.crontab - scheduling file -t/-b/-bofh/-w options
~root/.kill - luser reject database

BUGS:
None. What you see are undocumented features and/or hallucinations.

CREDITS:
Eric Pederson [eric at winternet.com]
All the fine folks of a.s.r.
10/02/95 - Features added by: Ford Prefect [fprefect at sccsi.com].
10/02/95 - Features added by: Exile In Paradise [exile at helix.xiii.com]

AUTHOR:
Abby Franquemont-Guillory [abbyfg at tezcat.com]
HTML version by: XIII Generation/Helix NetWorks.
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