On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:57:21AM +0400, Peter Heath wrote: > I would like to push my students a little more in the direction of > system administration. What skills are needed in the marketplace > these days? I would guess that process management and scripting would > be needed, but what else?
My experience is that there is for nearly every problem an explanation out there. I once reached the point to feel bored because of that. But most people are unable to find documentation and run into problems due to a lack of reading. And you have to read a lot in the beginning. In my opinion the best lesson you can give your students is to teach them how they find documentation and help for any problem by examples. And how they can have fun doing it. And show them that a good learning playground is having such a system for themselves and using it for something... watching movies ...writing mails ...having their own webserver. Something they like and have fun with. Maybe you have a screwed up Linux system somewhere in your college? Best starting point. Clean it up without reinstallation using documentation sources in the Internet. Dirk. -- Perl's grammar can not be reduced to BNF. The work of parsing perl is distributed between yacc, the lexer, smoke and mirrors. (Chaim Frenkel)
