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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: UNIX System Administration
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.011507.1720@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:15:07 GMT
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- In the popular vein of "you can't get experience without having
- experience," I'd like to toss a question out to people. It might
- actually have a happy sort of answer, with a little luck :-).
-
- I see hither-thither all sorts of "System Administrator" positions.
- They always seem to require that (for instance) the individual has
- been a system administrator before.
-
- The question: How would one get that FIRST one? I've been wandering
- around a whole pile of UNIX systems over the past 7-8 years, and have
- a fair degree of knowledge as a user, and once actually did have the
- root password (legitimately) to a system.
-
- Unfortunately, it is not looked on favorably for students to try to
- take on system administration tasks, because of the security
- risks/holes that are entailed. I've seen THAT happen once or twice,
- (not at THIS site, for any zealous system administrators around Ottawa
- :-)), and it certainly has dangers.
-
- Is there some other way of getting such experience on one's own? The
- entry of things like Linux, Minix, and BSD-386 can allow one to have
- some of these things at home, at long last. Is there some other way
- of "bootstrapping" into system administration?
-
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