On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Rob Cherry wrote: > I fear that my days of Solaris bigotry are very outdated. I can ignore the > Linux world no longer. I can also no longer assume that knowing Solaris is > enough to fake it for enterprise Linux environments. As such I wanted to ask > all the linux admins out there 2 questions - > > - What admin task did you do in the last week that you consider a linux > specific thing? i.e. editing the password file doesnt count, dealing with > ReiserFS does....
Packaged software installation usually uses different tools, so get used to RPM, YUM, etc., depending on the distro. Init scripts are in a different location (sometimes very slightly, again depending on distro), and on Red Hat at least, it's useful if they have the chkconfig lines in them. Those are a couple of things from the last week for me. Usually, depending on what you're working with, the differences are pretty minor. > - Linux War stories, What was the worst linux disaster you have had that I > should read up on to make sure I could fix it if hit with it in future. Dont > have to go into much detail as these can get long, but a general pointer to > give me some reading homework would be ideal. IME, filesystem corruption. ext* can corrupt itself in ways I've never seen on other UNIX systems. It doesn't help that Linux is often running on commodity-level hardware. It's not a bad idea to familiarize yourself with ext2/3 and other filesystems, as well as Linux RAID and LVM software. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Leon Towns-von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
