On Friday 20 July 2001 00:57, you wrote:
> Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a
> few skill of Unix/linux administration ..
> And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is
> it my respinsibility to know all the command switches all the time can i
> get help from a manual book or man page from time to time ...???
> lets face it i am having sme problem remembering all of them ... a part
> from that Unix/linux isnt that diffecult ...
>
> thanks
> Faisal
Civilme did a good job explaining a lot of what a good admin should know and
do. The important thing to remember is where to go to find the appropriate
info if you don't recall it immediately. This is true no matter what you are
supporting.
Knowing how to really *USE* man pages and search engines is much of the
difference between a good administrator and a not so good one.
Another point is that while you may not remember all of the switches for a
given command - ls is a perfect example - you will probably find that you
will remember many of them in the format that you find them most usefull.
Some examples for ls that I use daily include ls -l, ls -Rl, or ls -al. I
rarely use ls without using the -l switch, so it's easy for me to remember.
Like coding, you will tend to associate "blocks" of characters with a given
task. For example, how many times did you have to read the "rm" man page
before learning that "rm -rf /" is a bad thing (most of the time)?
--
John LeMay
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC
