Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Chris Parker
Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Also what would be a good route to take for a beginner programming? Hopefully the Debian

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 07:47 a.m. 29/06/01 -0500, Chris Parker wrote: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? mmm... this is just a guess, maybe be able to repeat by hard any line of any given file of the linux kernel

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
on 6/29/01 5:47 AM, Chris Parker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Also what would be a good

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Chris Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Also what would be a good route to

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote * Chris Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread David L. Craig
Chris Parker wrote: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Also what would be a good route to take for a beginner

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:16:44PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: ... 6. you DON'T need to read ESR's cathedral to become a unix admin. that the HECK does this have to do with admining? given that he's a brainwashed microsfty:), he better understand how free / open software gets developed,

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: begin: Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote For Peter and suchlike: SARCASMIRONY:);):-);-)8*) this is sheer and utter nonsense. you said admin, not programmer, right? In order to get various FPieces Of Software work in a heterogeneous

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, seriously, what I described before is a BSc (CS) form a decent uni plus 10 years practical experience. Is that so wrong? In order to be an admin, you must be one for 10 years. Perhaps true, but not useful. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:47:44AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Install a free Unix-like

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: - set up X - configure and use network devices: ethernet, serial analog modem, etc. - install and use a printer - download a program's source code, compile it, and install it on your system (i.e., do *not*

Re: Unix administrator

2001-06-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya -- all worth repeating...so am repeating... and adding... and learn google and/or your favorite search engines, ML, Faqs for previously answered issues/bugs/patches/howtos,etc and tighten the server to minimze them from getting into the box and do some safe backup of user data and now