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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? UNIX career path Post 302738599 by solaris_1977 on Sunday 2nd of December 2012 04:53:55 AM
Old 12-02-2012
UNIX career path

Hi All,
This question is regarding career path. I was not sure about which forum I should drop it, so putting it here.
I have 12 years of experience on UNIX i.e. majority of Solaris and some of Linux (Suse & Red Hat). Since starting I have been working on 100% administration side and I am not from programming or development side, but was able to learn writing small and simple scripts to automate my tasks in my environments.
Its been so many years working on disks, OS, Veritas, Clusters, hardware, remote support, performance bottlenecks in odd hours. I understand that system admin is having endless scope, but I am in India and here profile gets saturated (as well salary) after a point of time. I also want to enhance and learn more on my knowledge. Few of my friends suggested me to go with TOGAF certification/learning (The Open Group Architecture Framework). I tried to google it, but I am not sure if that is correct path to go with, for a Solaris System Admin. Also, I don't see much of help on this on internet and it seems it is more bencficial for Developers, programmers and people who are working on software life-cycle.
I am less keen towards management side, which is adopted by most of technical people here after good 10-12 years of experience. I want to be remain on technical side.
I hope I can get few suggestions on this forum from so experienced people. I would appreciate help.
Regards

Last edited by solaris_1977; 12-02-2012 at 07:09 AM..
 

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statvfs(2)							System Calls Manual							statvfs(2)

NAME
statvfs, fstatvfs - Gets file system information SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/statvfs.h> int statvfs ( const char *path, struct statvfs *buffer ); int fstatvfs ( int file_descriptor, struct statvfs *buffer ); STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: fstatvfs(): POSIX.1, XSH5.0 statvfs(): POSIX.1, XSH5.0 Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. PARAMETERS
Specifies any file within the mounted file system. Specifies a file descriptor obtained by a successful open() or fcntl() function. Points to a statvfs buffer to hold the returned information for the statvfs() or fstatvfs() function. DESCRIPTION
The statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions return descriptive information about a mounted file system. The returned information is in the for- mat of a statvfs structure, which is defined in the sys/statvfs.h header file. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, either function returns 0 (zero). Otherwise, it returns -1, sets errno to indicate the error. If the statvfs() function fails, errno may be set to one of the following values: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix [Tru64 UNIX] The requested address is invalid. An I/O error occurred while reading the file system. A signal was caught during execution of the function. [Tru64 UNIX] The value returned by statvfs is invalid. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat- ing the path parameter detected. The length of a component of the path parameter exceeds NAME_MAX characters, or the length of the path parameter exceeds PATH_MAX characters. The file referred to by the path parameter does not exist. A component of the path prefix of the path parameter is not a directory. If the fstatvfs() function fails, errno may be set to the following values: The file descriptor parameter is not a valid file descriptor. [Tru64 UNIX] The requested address is invalid. [Tru64 UNIX] The value returned by fstatvfs is invalid. RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: stat(2) Standards: standards(5) delim off statvfs(2)
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