Piotr Rybicki wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Best Regards > > Piotr Rybicki > http://www.innervision.pl
Oh hell, why not include someone that can code php, MySQL etc. Where do you draw the line? A good Sys Admin does NOT need to be a programmer. If you want a cert for programming (in C in this case) then create one for just that. -- Best regards, Chris Everything is contagious. _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
