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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Career advice Post 302106990 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 13th of February 2007 05:38:58 PM
Old 02-13-2007
My mentor had many great sayings, the most applicable one here is "Unix is Unix". Doesn't matter if Tru64 goes away, almost everythng you learn will be transferable to other versions. Studying another like Red Hat certainly can't hurt. Working with your SAN group is also a great move, I know many Unix admins who now work full or part time as SAN administrators. If you can get some real experience on Solaris or AIX that would be great too. But the main thing is learn as much as you can about as many things as you can. At the early career stage you're at that's the most important.

I have firsthand experience with this. This summer I got a contract to do Solaris and Veritas upgrades for a very large company in my city. When I showed up they told me they changed their mind and needed me to do AIX work instead. I'd been doing Solaris full-time for 7 years. My only AIX experience was about 3 months in a company with maybe 10% AIX servers a few years back. But I took the contract anyway and found that it was very easy to get up to speed on a different form of Unix since I knew Solaris so well. Even with that handicap, I did such a good job they recruited me away from my consulting firm for a permanent position.

You will end up in the same boat someday. It is highly unlikey your next job will be Tru64. But if you learn that thoroughly while you're working on it now, and learn as much as you can about the other varieties of Unix along the way, you'll be fine.

Last edited by rhfrommn; 02-14-2007 at 12:33 PM.. Reason: fix 2 typos
 

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GLOBUS-JOB-CLEAN(1)						  GRAM5 Commands					       GLOBUS-JOB-CLEAN(1)

NAME
globus-job-clean - Cancel and clean up a GRAM batch job SYNOPSIS
globus-job-clean [-r RESOURCE | -resource RESOURCE] [-f | -force] [-q | -quiet] JOBID globus-job-clean [-help] [-usage] [-version] [-versions] DESCRIPTION
The globus-job-clean program cancels the job named by JOBID if it is still running, and then removes any cached files on the GRAM service node related to that job. In order to do the file clean up, it submits a job which removes the cache files. By default this cleanup job is submitted to the default GRAM resource running on the same host as the job. This behavior can be controlled by specifying a resource manager contact string as the parameter to the -r or -resource option. By default, globus-job-clean prompts the user prior to canceling the job. This behavior can be overridden by specifying the -f or -force command-line options. OPTIONS
The full set of options to globus-job-clean are: -help, -usage Display a help message to standard error and exit. -version Display the software version of the globus-job-clean program to standard output. -version Display the software version of the globus-job-clean program including DiRT information to standard output. -resource RESOURCE, -r RESOURCE Submit the clean-up job to the resource named by RESOURCE instead of the default GRAM service on the same host as the job contact. -force, -f Do not prompt to confirm job cancel and clean-up. -quiet, -q Do not print diagnostics for succesful clean-up. Implies -f ENVIRONMENT
If the following variables affect the execution of globus-job-clean. X509_USER_PROXY Path to proxy credential. X509_CERT_DIR Path to trusted certificate directory. University of Chicago 03/18/2010 GLOBUS-JOB-CLEAN(1)
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