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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Information about Unix System Administration Post 302303020 by hpicracing on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 04:09:12 PM
Old 04-01-2009
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Originally Posted by rhfrommn
Unless you're working for a very large company which has on-site staff around the clock, you are working in a sense all the time since you can always be paged or called when there is a problem. Also, you will almost certainly be doing tons of middle-of-the-night and weekend work since you can't work on production servers during business hours. If you are interested in steady hours with little overtime Unix is NOT for you.

Salary varies widely. When I started about 10 years ago entry level unix admin jobs were in the 50-70k range. It is a fairly well-paying field and finding jobs is not terribly hard once you're established and recruiters/managers/other admins in your city know you.
Aw man... I didn't even think about the hours too much. I just assumed it would be regular working hours. I definitely want steady working hours though. I really would like to do something IT related though and Unix System Administration was like the closest I could find to what I want to do. Does anyone know any jobs similar I might be interested in with steady regular working hours? I was looking into web development too and that's the next closest thing to what I'm looking to do.
Thanks for the info!
 

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power_onoff(1M) 														   power_onoff(1M)

NAME
power_onoff - timed, automatic system power on, and power off SYNOPSIS
time [date] ] time_designation] DESCRIPTION
instructs the UPS monitor to shut down the system, and optionally informs the monitor when to power on the system again. The UPS monitor in turn instructs the uninterruptible power source (UPS) when to turn the power off and on. The UPS monitor then proceeds to shut down the system. The time to restart the system (power on) is specified with command-line arguments. Some UPS units limit the time that can elapse between the time the power is turned off and the time it is turned back on. Please see your UPS documentation for information about limitations. requires a UPS that is supported by the UPS monitor (see ups_mond(1M)). Command Line Arguments The command has two forms, and recognizes the following arguments: No power on. Causes the system to be shutdown and not be powered back on. time Can be specified as one, two, or four digits. One- and two-digit numbers represent hours; four digits represent hours and min- utes. time can also be specified as two numbers separated by a colon single quote the letter "h" a period or comma A suffix or can be appended. Otherwise a 24-hour clock time is understood. For example, and are read as 15 minutes after 8 in the morn- ing. The suffixes and can be used to indicate Coordinated Universal Time. The special names and are also recognized. date Can be specified as either a day of the week (fully spelled out or abbreviated) or a date consisting of a day, a month, and optionally a year. The day and year fields must be numeric, and the month can be fully spelled out, abbreviated, or numeric. These three fields can be in any order, and be separated by punctuation marks such as slash hyphen period or comma The years 00-68 would be interpreted as 2000-2068 and 69-99 would be 1969-1999. Two special ``days'', and are also recognized. If no date is given, is assumed if the given time is greater than the current time; is assumed if it is less. If the given month is less than the current month (and no year is given), next year is assumed. or If followed by a time_designation of or lets the user startup the system when the specified time_designation has elapsed. A numerical operator, enables the user to schedule the startup several hours, days, weeks, months, or years in advance (see EXAMPLES). Using the argument is equivalent to using an increment of Both plural and singular forms of time_designation are accepted. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. RETURN VALUE
Exit code 0 is returned upon successful completion, otherwise non 0 is returned. DIAGNOSTICS
issues diagnostic messages when it encounters syntax errors and out-of-range times. EXAMPLES
To startup the system at 5:00 am next Tuesday, use To startup the system at 5:30 am tomorrow, use To make your system startup each weekday at 7:30 am and shutdown at 5:30 pm each week day, use to execute the first entry on Monday through Thursday and the second entry on Friday (see crontab(1)). To startup the system at 8:15 on January 24, use To startup the system at 5:15 on January 24, use To startup the system at 9:30 tomorrow, use To startup the system 24 hours from now, use To shutdown the system and not start it up, use WARNINGS
Jobs can be submitted up to 2037. If jobs were submitted any later than 2037, an error message will display "BAD DATE". Some UPS units limit the time that can elapse between the time the power is turned off and the time it is turned back on. Please see your UPS documentation for information about limitations. If the date argument begins with a number and the time argument is also numeric (and without suffix), the time argument should be a four- digit number that can be correctly interpreted as hours and minutes. Do not use both and within a single command; only the first operator is accepted and the trailing operator is ignored. No warning or error is produced. The power cord must be disconnected before servicing the unit. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
fifo for communicating with ups_mond. SEE ALSO
at(1), cron(1M), crontab(1), queuedefs(4), proto(4), kill(1), sam(1M), ups_mond(1M). power_onoff(1M)
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