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Post 302303036 by hpicracing on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 04:49:52 PM
04-01-2009
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All the Database Admins I've worked with always went home at 17:30 (except for Gil, but he was special) so maybe Database administration is more what you want, or straight user support. Otherwise, yes, programmers all seem to work regular hours, and none of them seem to understand the concept of the support chap being first in and last to go home, they just think we are sad, snif! until they really need to roll out their application now, then we become the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I've often wondered why I do this job, and then I remember the utter satisfaction of bringing a completely borked system back to life at 3am, complete with all its data, ahh, heaven, and the answer to every question that starts "could you just do ...." is always yes, I've already done it.
I've often wondered why I do this job, and then I remember the utter satisfaction of bringing a completely borked system back to life at 3am, complete with all its data, ahh, heaven, and the answer to every question that starts "could you just do ...." is always yes, I've already done it.
hmm... people don't recognize the importance of the system administrators? oh well, it doesn't sound too surprising. I hate it when people are like that though.
I tried to post an answer back at you before but I guess it didn't get approved yet. Anyways, I wouldn't mind working in the UK... but I've heard the cost of living is really high
I'm googling some info about database administrator right now.
I swear, this job(unix system administrator) is like perfect for me except for the hours. I mean, everything else fits what I want to do perfectly.
I love working with computers, figuring out problems, and fixing them. I'm just really not to crazy about working a night shift. I mean, if I had to, I could probably put up with it for a few years... but I'd like to be able to have regular working hours at some point. Do system administrators work night shifts as long as they're in the system administration field? I'm just guessing they do being what the other guy on this forum said about not being able to work on a production server during business hours.|
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ypstop
ypstart(1M) System Administration Commands ypstart(1M) NAME
ypstart, ypstop - Start and stop NIS services SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop DESCRIPTION
The ypstart command is used to start the Network Information Service (NIS). After the host has been configured using the ypinit(1M) com- mand, ypstart automatically determines the NIS status of the machine and starts the appropriate daemons. The ypstop command is used to stop the Network Information Service (NIS). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWypu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ypinit(1M), attributes(5) System Administration Guide: Basic Administration NOTES
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two services remains the same; only the name has changed. The name Yellow Pages is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications PLC, and must not be used without permission. SunOS 5.10 24 Oct 1996 ypstart(1M)