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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Path to Linux / Unix Systems Administrator Post 302415485 by rhfrommn on Thursday 22nd of April 2010 04:18:55 PM

04-22-2010

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One comment I'd have is that a large fraction of the admins I know had an experience in their career where they got thrown in way over their head and they had to learn under pressure. One of my mentors worked at a large bank, and 1 month after becoming a Unix admin the senior admin quit so he ended up in charge of hundreds of workstations and servers by himself.

In my case, 1 year after getting into Unix I was hired to be the middle person of a 3 admin team for a fairly small company. There was supposed to be a very experienced admin hired for the senior position. The day I showed up they told me the senior guy got another job offer and wouldn't be joining the company. So day 1 I ended up in charge of the entire Unix environment for a new company I'd never worked at before! Not long after that, due to layoffs I ended up the only person between both Unix and Storage teams, doing the work that was handled by a team of 6 about a year earlier. It was tons of work and stress having to come up to speed that fast and handle everything on my own. But for the long range career outlook it was great. I had experience and knowledge I never would have gotten working under a more senior admin again.

So, I guess the practical advice for you is to find a way to work on Unix, even if you think it's beyond what you can do. If you truly love it and have the talent and smarts it takes you'll manage to get by and learn more than you ever could reading books. Find a part time or entry level Unix job, or volunteer at the church/school/charity of your choice to work on their Linux or Unix systems, or somthing like that. Find a way to get real world experience even if it seems intimidating at first.

Good luck.

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bootloader::path

Bootloader::Path(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       Bootloader::Path(3)

NAME

       Bootloader::Path - abstraction of path constants

PREFACE

       This package provides path for configuration files. It is used to enable testing on created chroot.  It is used only for internal purpose.

SYNOPSIS

       "use Bootloader::Path;"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Prefix ($path);"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Logname();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Fstab();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Sysconfig();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_menulst();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_devicemap();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_grubconf();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_grub();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_conf();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_efi();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_elilo();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Lilo_lilo();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Lilo_conf();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Zipl_conf();"

       "$path = Bootloader::Path::Zipl_zipl();"

DESCRIPTION

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Prefix ($);"
	 Add to absolute path prefix. Only internal function.  Allways retuns correct value.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Logname();"
	 Gets logname path.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Fstab();"
	 Gets fstab path.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Sysconfig();"
	 Gets path for bootloader sysconfig.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_menulst();"
	 Gets path for grub configuration file menu.lst.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_devicemap();"
	 Gets path for grub configuration file device.map.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_grubconf();"
	 Gets path for grub configuration file grub.conf (this file contains commands for initialize bootloader).

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Grub_grub();"
	 Gets path for grub binary

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_conf();"
	 Gets path of elilo configuration file.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_efi();"
	 Gets path to efi directory.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Elilo_elilo();"
	 Gets path to elilo binary.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Lilo_lilo();"
	 Gets path to lilo(or powerlilo) binary.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Lilo_conf();"
	 Gets path to lilo(or powerlilo) configuration file.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Zipl_conf();"
	 Gets path to zipl configuration file.

	"$path = Bootloader::Path::Zipl_zipl();"
	 Gets path to zipl binary.

perl v5.12.1							    2010-05-14						       Bootloader::Path(3)