On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:21:47 -0600, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikel King wrote: > > > So now that we've got a handle on the semantics issue what say we > > throw some ideas around for what Jr should know and be able to do? > > > > 1. For this phase can we try to list all of the things that are common > > to the BSDs? > > inetd.conf > > fstab > > rc.conf... > > Any and all system crontab jobs (Including all periodic, weekly, daily, > monthly, security, etc)
Sounds about right. > Any and all startup scripts and locations This gets site specific again, and version of BSD specific. I'd go with "most" here, as opposed to "all" > Any and all rescue measures including backup and restore options Generally, Jr. Administrators aren't greatly involved with data recovery in my experence. I think a subset of the tools would be best, at this level. dd, tape dump levels, tar, etc. > The basics of how to install any of the BSD OS's > Know the partitions of the OS's > > > 2. What basic commands should they know? > > man > > ls > > kill -HUP > > tar > > I feel all that reside in sbin and bin Everything might be more appropriate for a higher level administrator. I can't see putting a jr level admin to work configuring ACLs, or setting up vinum. > > > 3. What basic tasks should they know? > > Check and understand load averages > > Setup zones in bind or just modify existing ones? > > Add new users to the system > > tcsh? > > > > All the shells - know the differences and how to set the environments > Know what files to change for global user defaults > Know how to setup and or print (lpd and or cups) > Know the default MTA's How to configure them, or what they are? > Know the differences between ipfw/ipf etc, and how to flush/stop/restart > them. To be brutally honest, I wouldn't want my Jr. Level administrators playing with firewalls on outside knowledge, if I need that kind of experence to really do security work, I'm gonna go with a higher-level person to take care of it. If I need the basics, I'll train a Jr. person in my environment. > Know the basics of Apache/httpd (IE: config file, location of config > file, directory structure, etc.) Quite a bit of that kind of thing is site specific, and will even vary between the BSDs, and between a tar or package install. Any thoughts on how to resolve that? > > There are a few that I can think of. > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > BSDcert mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert > What you described, feels like an Intermediate position. Maybe something to consider there? --- Harrison Grundy _______________________________________________ BSDcert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
