09-26-2007
I have done SA work in the past for many years in UNIX and non-UNIX platforms. I would say that a UNIX scripting role would be good to add to your qualifications. But, I'm not sure it will help you gain more UNIX experience from an SA point of view.
In my current role I do lots of UNIX scripts for monitoring of applications, hardware, operating systems, databases, etc. but I work from a list of requirements that development or the SA's give me. So they tell me what process or resources to monitor or mechanize and the desired thresholds and I make it happen using things like Nagios, OVO or Patrol.
Now my SA background got me into my current role. But, I don't know if my current role would get me into an SA job. I do miss the SA job but I really like being able to script more and work a regular 40 work week. As an SA I was always on-call with a cell phone 24x7x365.
Good luck!
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uucico(1M) System Administration Commands uucico(1M)
NAME
uucico - file transport program for the uucp system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico [-f] [-c type] [-d spool-directory] [-i interface] [-r role-number] [-s system-name] [-x debug-level]
DESCRIPTION
uucico is the file transport program for uucp work file transfers.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f This option is used to "force execution" of uucico by ignoring the limit on the maximum number of uucicos defined
in the /etc/uucp/Limits file.
-c type The first field in the Devices file is the "Type" field. The -c option forces uucico to only use entries in the
"Type" field that match the user specified type. The specified type is usually the name of a local area network.
-d spool-directory This option specifies the directory spool-directory that contains the uucp work files to be transferred. The
default spool directory is /var/spool/uucp.
-i interface This option defines the interface used with uucico. The interface only affects slave mode. Known interfaces are
UNIX (default), TLI (basic Transport Layer Interface), and TLIS (Transport Layer Interface with Streams modules,
read/write).
-r role-number The role-number 1 is used for master mode. role-number 0 is used for slave mode (default). When uucico is started
by a program or cron, role-number 1 should be used for master mode.
-s system-name The -s option defines the remote system (system-name) that uucico will try to contact. It is required when the
role is master; system-name must be defined in the Systems file.
-x debug-level Both uux and uucp queue jobs that will be transferred by uucico. These jobs are normally started by the uusched
scheduler, for debugging purposes, and can be started manually. For example, the shell Uutry starts uucico with
debugging turned on. The debug-level is a number between 0 and 9. Higher numbers give more detailed debugging
information.
FILES
/etc/uucp/Devconfig
/etc/uucp/Devices
/etc/uucp/Limits
/etc/uucp/Permissions
/etc/uucp/Sysfiles
/etc/uucp/Systems
/var/spool/locks/*
/var/spool/uucp/*
/var/spool/uucppublic/*
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWbnuu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
uucp(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), Uutry(1M), cron(1M), uusched(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 19 May 1993 uucico(1M)