05-18-2009
back to the topic at hand...
as duke says, depends on taste. however, when i was a sys admin, i had an on-call schedule. for a week i was available 24x7. if you don't mind waking up at 3:30am and attempting to figure out why a system just died after a developer attempted to compile something then why not be an admin?
i think for me its usually about my personal life and how much it(job) will impact my life. work is work. sometimes you are slammed and other times you have downtime to study and learn. maybe the admin role expects you to work 13 hour days but the pay is a significant increase from what you have now. for me, being an admin isn't the top job when your personal life suffers. find something that fits for you.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
services-admin
services-admin(1) User Commands services-admin(1)
NAME
services-admin - Basic tool to enable and disable SMF services.
SYNOPSIS
services-admin [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
services-admin provides a simple list view of all the services configured on the system (in SMF) and allows the user to enable/disable the
services.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
tion.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% services-admin
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/services-admin Executable for services configuration.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/services
Backup directory for files that are modified.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/services
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), smf(5), svcadm(1M), svcs(1M), attributes(5)
NOTES
It isn't possible to do anything other than disable/enable a service. Some services may not be listed.
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 services-admin(1)