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)