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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Network Sys Admin Post 302100985 by sparcguy on Tuesday 26th of December 2006 03:47:06 PM

12-26-2006

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You should join a system integrator company, find out which are the unix integrators in your area and join first as a field replacement tech there you will either pick up or lot or you will drown.

On a side note, I feel that since you are at the starting point let me share my experience being a unix engineer/sys admin of many years.

As unix sys admin in a corporate environment:

1) Unless there are new rollouts you won't be doing very much system admin.
2) Because everything is production you cant touch the system much but all the same they still make you responsible for it if something goes wrong.
3) What you will mostly learn is to support instead is your corporate legacy system.
4) And because of this and depending on how good/bad the system is, it may bring you head to head very often with application folks who will often accuse "something wrong with the system"

5) In short to be a unix sys admin is to be a lone fire fighter.

Since you are at the starting point, you should take the path of a qualified network engineer.

1) Network engineers have great job, once the network is up they are very free.
2) I have rarely seen network engineers get involved in system rollouts other than supplying IP addresses
3) When there's a problem with the system normally the fighting is between system guy and application guy.
4) Sun solaris and Aix or HPux Novell, Win2k are all different OS, but TCPIP is the same everywhere.

what do you think?

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Module::Install::Admin(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Module::Install::Admin(3pm)

NAME

       Module::Install::Admin - Author-side manager for Module::Install

SYNOPSIS

       In a Module::Install extension module:

	   sub extension_method {
	       my $self = shift;
	       $self->admin->some_method(@args);
	   }

       As an one-liner:

	   % perl "-MModule::Install::Admin" -e'&some_method(@args);'

       The two snippets above are really shorthands for

	   $some_obj->some_method(@args)

       where $some_obj is the singleton object of a class under the "Module::Install::Admin::*" namespace that provides the method "some_method".
       See "METHODS" for a list of built-in methods.

DESCRIPTION

       This module implements the internal mechanism for initializing, including and managing extensions, and should only be of interest to
       extension developers; it is never included under a distribution's inc/ directory, nor are any of the Module::Install::Admin::* extensions.

       For normal usage of Module::Install, please see Module::Install and "COOKBOOK / EXAMPLES" in Module::Install instead.

   Bootstrapping
       When someone runs a Makefile.PL that has "use inc::Module::Install", and there is no inc/ in the current directory, Module::Install will
       load this module bootstrap itself, through the steps below:

       o   First, Module/Install.pm is POD-stripped and copied from @INC to inc/.  This should only happen on the author's side, never on the end-
	   user side.

       o   Reload inc/Module/Install.pm if the current file is somewhere else.	This ensures that the included version of inc/Module/Install.pm is
	   always preferred over the installed version.

       o   Look at inc/Module/Install/*.pm and load all of them.

       o   Set up a "main::AUTOLOAD" function to delegate missing function calls to "Module::Install::Admin::load" -- again, this should only
	   happen at the author's side.

       o   Provide a "Module::Install::purge_self" function for removing included files under inc/.

METHODS

SEE ALSO

       Module::Install

AUTHORS

       Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

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       Copyright 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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