This question isn't strictly speaking to do with linux, but I'd
like to ask some of the knowledgeable people out there in the audience who
administrate un*x.
I'm the computer tech at a small geophysical company. Its mostly a
windows shop, the usual mix of 3.1, 95, NT workstation and server. We also
have a Sun Ultra2. It came with Solaris 2.5.1, and since in-house un*x
understanding is really poor, the system was a total mess. Massive
(expensive!) geophysical software packages spewed all over the
filesystems, gigs of critical stuff all globally readable/writable, no
security updates or patches of any kind. Everything was old, slow,
cramped, and the barn door wide open. Basically, noone used the machine,
since openwindows is rather confusing for people coming from win95, and
all the software was broke anyways.
I've completely rebuilt the machine.
- New hardrive, repartition and lay out sensible filesystems
- Get and install Solaris 2.6, update with all the latest patches,
install all the supplemental Sun software
- Put the machine on the network (IP, gateway, DNS),
- Build /usr/local/, put most of my changes under them
- Add lots of GNU stuff (GCC, Perl, libstdc++, bash, perl,
color-ls (ahhh, *much* better!)),
- Reinstall geophysical software, fix all the license managers
(irritating bastards if you've never dealt with them), setup
groups to sensibly allow/restrict access to our massively
expensive software
- Setup decent /etc/skel files, make terminals pretty and easy
- Disable sendmail, add all security fixes, implement a password
policy
- Mess with the CDE, install netscape and m$ie (gawd!), edit the
/etc/dt files to add popup menus to geophysical software
-Finally, *document* everything I've done, with changelogs and a
printed custom user manual, so both the users and they who will
administrate this system when I'm gone will know both what was
done and what needs to be done, so they don't trash the system
all over again.
I did this by myself, spent about a week learning Solaris 2.5.1,
the CDE, and on the phone to Sun. Solaris 2.6 arrived Monday this week.
Ok, so here's my question. This work seems like some sort of
mid-level unix administrative caliber. What kinda *pay* is typical or
appropriate for this work, involving setting administrative policy,
documenting, as well as technical knowledge. If nothing else, perhaps
someone can point me somewhere where I can find out?
I rather suspect that it's a lot more than I got hired for to fix
people's printers under Win95. :)
Thanks,
Alex
PS: Err, to put some kind of linux spin on this, my impression is that
Solaris 2.5.1 is about on the level of Slackware in 1994-95. Solaris 2.6
is prettier and somewhat webified, call it like Caldera OpenLinux perhaps?
(... said with disdain from a longtime Debian user ... :)
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