Not at all !!!
Hi All.
From my experiences, good admin should have sufficient knowledge
about C programming. He/She sould be familiar with system functions
like:
- fork(), waitpid()
- open(), read(), write()
- socket(), bind(), listen(), accept()
- shm*()
- ...
I can't see the possibility about proper system understanging and
tuning without such knowledge. In the end, FreeBSD is written in C.
You are talking about "System Engineer" not "SysAdmin"
I've found out, that people with poor understanding of C system
functions are also poor admins, when we speak about high volume
servers.
They simply can't diagnose/explain/solve heavy traffic problems.
SysAdmin should do much, much more than solve traffic problems
If i'd have to make a choice of recruitment, that would be
important topic at the interview.
For the purpose of certification, I'd suggest for example a piece
(s) of broken/badly written C code with questions about a problem
there.
again - System Engineer, Programmer...etc NOT "SysAdmin"
Best Regards
Piotr Rybicki
http://www.innervision.pl
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