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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Looking to learn and do not know where to start? Post 302383851 by ilikecows on Thursday 31st of December 2009 08:31:38 PM

12-31-2009

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Do you have any friends or family in the field? If you do I would suggest asking them about their jobs. Ask about what they like/dislike, the skills required, etc. Another thing I would do is look up the various computer related jobs and then read up on some of the job functions. For example if you are looking into what a Network engineer does, read up on the basics of routing and switching. For programming, learn a little bit of a simple programming language like BASIC.

I am a systems administrator and what I do is manage the day to day operations of our servers. I work with several other system administrators doubled up as help desk techs at one of our many sites in a 24x7 environment. Some things I do on the job is shell scripting and light perl programming, user account management, fix problems users have, manage backups, periodically check servers for hardware and software problems, assist support vendor engineers and developers with installations, occasionally install updates, write documentation, and other things. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out those weird problems that occasionally pop up, the satisfaction of seeing my scripts in action, and helping users (the appreciative ones anyway). I don't enjoy having to work a non-normal schedule 2/3 of the year.

I hope this helps.

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disown

disown(1)							   User Commands							 disown(1)

NAME

       disown - ksh93 built-in function to disassociate a job with the current shell

SYNOPSIS

       disown [job ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ksh93  disown command prevents the current shell from sending a HUP signal to each of the specified jobs when the current shell termi-
       nates a login session.

       If job is omitted, disown sends the HUP signal to the most recently started or stopped background job.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       job    Specifies the job or jobs on which disown operates.

	      Specify job as one of the following:

	      number	  Refers to a process ID.

	      -number	  Refers to a process group ID.

	      %number	  Refers to a job number.

	      %string	  Refers to a job whose name begins with string.

	      %?string	  Refers to a job whose name contains string.

	      %+ or %%	  Refers to the current job.

	      %-	  Refers to the previous job.

EXIT STATUS

       0     Successful completion.

       >0    One or more specified jobs does not exist.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Disowning a Job

       The following example disowns job 1:

	 example% disown %1

AUTHORS

       David Korn, dgk@research.att.com

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       bg(1), jobs(1), ksh93(1), wait(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    18 Apr 2007 							 disown(1)

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