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Originally Posted by hpicracing

Thanks for the answer about the accuracy about the information.
Okay, so most people here seem to be putting the starting salary around $50 - $75k a year. What would you say would be the salary after 5 yrs or 10yrs? I thought the thing about making millions sounded a bit odd. That's why I was asking around here about the accuracy of the info. I know I read on a forum a few months ago some guy said he and other system administrators he knew were making about $75 an hour after working about 10 yrs. Where I read this I think the same person said to expect expect about $40 - $50 per/hr starting salary and that you can add about $3 an hour per extra years experience in the job. Does this info sound about right? Sorry for all the questions
Thanks for all the help though... I really appreciate it!

I'm not a Server Admin, but more of an Application Server Admin, J2EE application servers, but they all run on Linux so most of my day is spent on Linux. Most people, unless their contractor's, are paid salary. Because for the company it makes more sense to pay us salary, b/c they know they don't want to pay that quadruple time when a server breaks on Christmas day and you have to work on it for 5 hours, which would obviously be equivalent of getting paid 20 hours.

So most of the jobs will be salaried, and because of that, if you have a nice boss, they are usually very lenient with your on-site working hours. I tend to come in around 830-9 every day, take an hour lunch, and leave around 430-5(yes I know I have a VERY lenient employer), but then again, I still end up working a minimum of 45-50 hours because so much of our work has to be done after hours and on Saturday night at midnight.

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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)