To answer your on what you should know to be a good Linux Admin, it really
boils down to being a good admin period. I've met several poor NT
administrators that were terrible admins in general since they didn't know what
they were doing.
IMHO a good admin is:
- detail oriented (but not to the point that you don't get anything else done)
- cautious (I know one UNIX admin that got lucky and upgraded from qpopper
v2.x to v3.01 right after he finished compiling v3.01 and it worked OK)
- Know the program/protocol they are working with OR where to get more info
Linux/UNIX is different in that most of the time it forces you to know what the
heck you are doing - this is because it is so configurable. (It is nice to know
if you server is tight on memory or disk space that you can rip out X-windows
(the GUI) and it will run fine)
As far as the programming part many useful utilities are available pre-compiled
but as one poster mentioned even if it isn't downloading it and compiling it is
usually a 3 or 4 step process - unzip & untar, configure, make, make install
(and many times the folks on the 'net that have gone to the trouble of
compiling the program will share it with you).
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, fasi74 wrote:
> Hello there
>
> I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to extend my
> skill & go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my
> being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.?
> Also what should i know to be a good Linux Admin ? I heard linux users have
> to
> do a lots of programing too do i have to do that as well ?
>
> thankyou
> Faisal
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