Want to do unix job, why dont you employ a UNIX Certified Expert ?
Before you employ a person, you should ask yourself what are you wanting to
do?
A Cisco Expert sometimes also not familiar with other vendor's Router config
although the Routing concept is the same.
McDonald! ^_^ ho ho ho!!!!!
""Jim McDowell"" wrote in message
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> Doggone those CCIEs. Shame on them for not knowing UNIX startup scripts.
I
> guess I'll be a step ahead of them if I ever get my CCIE. :)
>
>
>
> What's wrong with CCIEs today? I know that I am making a general
> assumptions; however,this is the second time that it has happend to the
> company that I work for. We have several tacacs servers that use to
> authenticate users. These tacacs servers are running on a combination of
> Linux and Solaris platforms. While I was away at the Networker
> Conference, one of our tacacs servers (solaris) die due to hardware
> failure and the amazingly the tacacs process on the Linux die. Because
> of this, everyone has to login to the routers and switches via local
> account. We hire these CCIEs to maintain the network while I am away for
> a few weeks. None of these CCIEs have any background with tacacs servers
> running on Unix platforms. As to our problems, the simple to do is just
> to restart the tacacs process byfirst: "killall tac_plus" and second
> "/usr/sbin/tac_plus -C /etc/tacacs/tac_plus.cfg" but these CCIEs guys
> have absolutely no clues. Furthermore, they don't even know how to use
> editing in Unix (i.e vi or emacs) and ended up screwing up my tacacs
> configuration files. We have a few employees that need tacacs account
> but these CCIEs guys have no clues how to addnew users to a configuration
> file which if anyone has done tacacs on the unix platform know that you
> just modify the configuration file tac_plus.conf and restart tacacs
> process. These CCIE guys say that they come from a windows environment
> so they don't have too much with Unix platforms. I also notice that a
> lot of CCIEs these days lack the Unix skills that are required for the
> Service Providers environment. Most don't even know how to tunnel
> X-application through Secure Shell (SSH). I still remember those days
> when Cisco Engineers are very well verse in both unix and routers
> skills. I long for those days again. Comments anyone?
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