04-07-2009
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Originally Posted by
reborg
There is also one other type of job that has not been mentioned, and probably the last place that you can still get a job that allows you to truely jump in feet first as Neo describes. System integration and/or professional services. Some companies provide ground-up solutions for various systems - OS, 3rd part apps and in-house apps or customised and managed custom solutions and all of the admin and system programming that goes along with that. If you can find a company doing that kind of work you can get lots experience very, very quickly.
I agree - this is probably more or less how most of us SAs started - and what I meant with some solid IT background that makes our jobs so much easier.
I started my IT career with Cadmus (doesn anyone remember 'Munix' ?) and Mainframes and VMS, moved through Dec Alpha, Irix and OS/2, Windows and finally ended up with AIX - most of these jobs had been on contract base delivering a CAD or ERP environment from scratch - including Hardware, network, databases, OS and customer training - but you cannot contract forever, so at some point the logical next step had been to become a sysadmin in a perm position
Kind regards
zxmaus
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starting(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual starting(7)
NAME
starting - event signalling that a job is starting
SYNOPSIS
starting JOB=JOB INSTANCE=INSTANCE [ENV]...
DESCRIPTION
The starting event is generated by the Upstart init(8) daemon when a new instance of a job begins starting. The JOB environment variable
contains the job name, and the INSTANCE environment variable contains the instance name which will be empty for single-instance jobs.
init(8) will wait for all services started by this event to be running, all tasks started by this event to have finished and all jobs
stopped by this event to be stopped before allowing the job to continue starting.
This allows jobs to effectively insert themselves as dependencies of other jobs. The event is typically combined with the stopped(7) event
by services.
Job configuration files may use the export stanza to export environment variables from their own environment into the starting event. See
init(5) for more details.
EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running whenever another service would be running, started before and stopped after it, might use:
start on starting apache
stop on stopped apache
A task that must be run before another task or service is started might use:
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