On Friday 20 July 2001 04:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Well at Bell Labs in 1970 their "quick reference card" was a 40-page typed
list.
I refer to man pages, doc pages and books all the time in my work, and none
have thought the lesser of me for it, AFAIK, and if they do, I don't care.
Many programmers here can churn out perl or C code like it is going out of
style. I cannot do that though I do some programming, because I do not have
a narrow focus to keep those skills current. And because I do not have a
narrow focus, I am a source of information for those who occasionally need a
fact outside their daily specialty.
A sysadmin must know the possibilities of the system, but he should probably
not remember the exact protocol for the fuser commandline for example--he
should definitely know what it does and remember to look it up in a situation
where it is apropos. He should also have a small repertoire of sneaky tricks
and dodges for those times he has to update a package system-wide and it is
erasing a symlink during installation that is needed to run afterwards, for
example.
That is a lot of what a sysadmin does, though at the moment I am not one of
those either. Another thing done by _good_ sysadmins is to automate as much
as possible of their jobs so that they can spend most of the day playing
Quake if they so desire. Walking from machine to machine is very passe, but
something a lot of Winadmins do.
Civileme
