On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:49:42PM -0700, Anthony @ PencilFight Design wrote: > I am looking into becoming a Unix System Administrator. I know a few that > all learned basically "on the job". I'm wondering if there is any one who > knows of a good way to start. Online classes? I've heard of the Red Book > and of course the O-Reilly books but was wondering if there was any classes > any one has heard about.
FYI, the Red Book is now purple. I don't know of any online classes, though there is some kind of resource at http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm.html. (It might be old...I've had it in my bookmarks forever. Maybe also check things like http://www.ugu.com/ If you want to do it as a career (you are a masochist, and not because of UNIX) you can look for "junior sysadmin" type job listings. They'll mostly have you do things like cycle backup tapes, monitor servers, or act as a firewall between the (l)users and the higher up sysadmins. If that's not enough to discourage further pursuit of sysadminning, then you deserve what you get... noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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