State of the SysAd art (was: vi or emacs for editing Python on Linux?)

[Steve Lamb]

On 24 Dec 2001 17:43:00 -0600, Cameron Laird <claird at starbase.neosoft.com>
wrote: .
> Does this match others' experience?  I continue to
> run into plenty of production hosts which have barely
> been maintained for up to four years, let alone
> outfitted with such new-fangled decorations as a
> properly-installed ssh.
 
     Then how are you getting onto the machine?  I hope not plain old telnet.
Furthermore there are other options of gettimg things onto that machine than
scp.  That was, of course, an example to point out that one doesn't need to
edit on that machine to get work done.  I have been on a machine where ssh was
available but scp out of it was not.  

cat > sift.pl

    Any other questions or can we finally put the bullshit argument to rest?

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