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IBM's AIX is very hot these days. If you can get one or more of the many AIX certifications, you will be doing very well.

Oracle/Sun's Solaris OS is the hottest, however. This is because Sun's hardware is cheaper than IBM's, but in my experience, it breaks more often. This gives Solaris admins a lot of opportunity to keep their skills current.

Keep working on your Linux knowledge. Especially learn Red Hat and/or Suse. Ubuntu is probably a better OS, but no large company is going to let their servers run Ubuntu.

Mostly, however, you will need EXPERIENCE on your resume. This is hard to get if you do not have any. This is the catch-22 of any career choice. The way to get around this is to do volunteer work. Find a charity that needs help and advice on their systems, and become a system admin for them. Volunteer work does show on your resume and counts towards experience. You will need 2-3 years of volunteer work on your resume before you can claim to be an experienced sysadmin. Then, however, the job opportunities are pretty good.

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time-admin

time-admin(1)							   User Commands						     time-admin(1)

NAME

       time-admin - Basic configuration of system time, date, timezone and NTP client.

SYNOPSIS

       time-admin [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       time-admin  enables  the  user  to  configure the default timezone and current date/time on the system. It also enables the user to turn on
       auto-synchronisation of this using NTP.

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% time-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/time-admin	       Executable for time and date configuration.

       /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/time
				       Backup directory for files that are modified.

       /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/time
				       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), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), rtc(1M), ntpdate(1M), xntpd(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Nov 2006							     time-admin(1)