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- From: hargrove@ramirez.mitre.org (Paul H. Hargrove)
- Subject: What must I learn to become a wizard?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.175619.23753@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:56:19 GMT
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- I am wondering what you wizards think are the top, say 10 or so, topics or
- concepts one must understand to be considered a wizard. I guess there are
- really a need for three lists, for 'programming', 'administration', and
- 'kernel' wizards. Obviously some concepts may not apply to all of the
- *nix platforms out there.
-
- A couple items that come to mind to start the lists are:
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- 'Programming' wizard:
- sockets
- rpc
- shared memory
- semaphores
- signals (preferably all 3 environments: AT&T, BSD and POSIX)
- STREAMS
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- 'Administration' wizard:
- process accounting configuration
- termcap and/or terminfo entries
- sendmail.cf (cries of pain errupt from the audience)
- printer or batch queue configuration (very system dependent, I imagine)
- crash recovery
- NFS
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- 'Kernel' wizard:
- file systems, especially UFS and FFS (NFS doesn't count here)
- virtual memory and paging/swapping
- scheduling
- device drivers (very system dependent, again)
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- I also imagine that a good knowledge of *nix history is important to help
- create image of the 'wise old wizard.'
-
- I'd be interested to hear what others think is of importance as well.
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- Paul H. Hargrove, speaking for myself.
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