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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers learning unix Post 302206147 by donnieDarko on Tuesday 17th of June 2008 05:29:19 AM
Old 06-17-2008
learning unix

Hi,

i have started to learn unix (on and off for the past few months) and am wishing to move into that area in the administration field of it.
I have been working in the help desk area (desktop support - windows based) for about 2.5 years and moved into a team leading role for 1 year in which i have totally been fed up with and gave it up.

I currently now study a unix/linux administration course by borris vinnik (from Amazon).

I would like some advise if my material would be suited to find a junior job in the area (any flavor). I have not had luck in the past with trying to attain a junior unix job because of not enough experience and no formal certification. In addition, junior unix roles without any experience show up very rarely here in sydney, Australia.

Are there any other material apart from what i am currently studying now that you could recommend that wont break my budget.

I personally like the linux flavor more though i would not mind going into any other flavor and i would really enjoy the administration side instead of the development side of unix, though does that mean i would need to know heavy programming skills in certain flavors of unix to perform system admin jobs or would that really depend on the job requirements?
Also i am planning to install a Linux OS system and server on a single pc for education, would this be advised? and would this be the most effective way of earning a flavor of unix?
 

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MBK_WORK_LIB(1) 					     MBK ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES						   MBK_WORK_LIB(1)

NAME
MBK_WORK_LIB - define the mbk working directory SYNOPSYS
c-shell running setenv MBK_WORK_LIB unix path ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr DESCRIPTION
MBK_WORK_LIB sets the directory where are saved the results of an invocation of mbk or genlib. This directory is considered to be, from an mbk point of view, read and write. Also, when a file is searched for reading, the first directory to be looked at is the MBK_WORK_LIB, and then the one defined in MBK_CATA_LIB(1). The unix path argument must be a actually accessible path on your host machine. ERRORS
"mbk_fopen : can't open file 'unix_path/file.xx'" This occurs when either the unix path is irrelevent, or when the file doesn't exist if it is open for reading, or when you don't have the right on the file or directory while trying to write it. EXAMPLE
setenv MBK_WORK_LIB ~fred/crechan/uom SEE ALSO
mbk(3), genlib(1), MBK_CATA_LIB(1). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. ASIM
/LIP6 October 1, 1997 MBK_WORK_LIB(1)
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