On Fri 11 Oct 2013 at 13:24:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Getting a printer to work in Linux or a weekly rsync to a USB HDD > do not make you a sysadmin any more than managing your current > (checking in en_US afaik) makes you an accountant.
Eh? A parent who spends many hours attending to her child's needs when she is ill is not a nurse. A person who replaces a blown fuse in a plug to get the TV working again is not an electrician. Guiding a person through the intricacies of a foreign language does not make you a linguist. Someone who expresses a view on a current situation in the news is not a politician. Cooking a splendid meal for four doesn't make you a chef. Are there any more lables we can attach to people? In the Debian context, anyone using apt-get is a sysadmin, A mere user gets: brian@desktop:~$ apt-get update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? "are you root?" is the clue. If you are able to be root , you are a sysadmin. Maybe not a very good one, but, if you want the responsibility, it is yours; all of it - not just the little bit the OP may have implied by his throwaway remark. Of course, we all know a sysadmin role can only be filled by a very special person. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131011210624.ga22...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
