Wow, that question spawned some great conversation.

Thanks for the initial input everyone, and the great replies there after. :)


On Nov 16, 2007 5:47 AM, Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Andrew Hecox wrote:
>
> > I would rather that she read the 10 line shell script so that she
> > understood unambiguously what it means to our site to "add" a user, even
> > if it took an hour. If we're going to have an admin for 3-5 years, I'm
> > happy to take 3 full months of training so that they can understand the
> > breadth of what we do and how we do it.
>
> That's where the difference is. For me a sysadmin automates tasks and
> operators perform repititive tasks. So if you need to create about 100 new
> users a week and call those people to ask some information, I am sure you
> do not think this is a task for an experienced sysadmin ?
>
> There are a lot of administrative tasks that are dull and boring to real
> sysadmins and other people are perfectly fit for that that have no intent
> to become an experience sysadmin. Otherwise your company would be full of
> experienced sysadmins. (hey, maybe yours is ?)
>
> Anyway, point being: why does first, second and third level support exist ?
> Why not only have third level support, everyone would be better off, right ?
>
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