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02-06-2011

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Hello all,

I really hope that this is the right Forum to post this kind of a question...

I have been working in the IT support industry for nearly 3 years now. I started of providing end-user support. So enough to say that I provided my fair share of "have you tried turning it off and on" solutions and did more password resets then is medically healthy for one... Anyway, to make a long story short I am now supporting HP-UX and Linux (SUSE and Red Hat) in mostly business critical environments for a living.

Although I am very happy with my current job I do of course sometimes wonder what my next position might be... And this is exactly where I need some help with. The logical next step (in my opinion at least) is to become a (Junior) System Administrator (which has been pretty much my goal when I started 3 years ago). However, providing support for Unix/Linux issues is obviously quite different from actually managing a couple of these servers. I must say that over the years I have become quite good at researching issues and documenting solutions... But at the same time I do not feel overly confident about mu administration skills.

So what I really like to know (hopefully from some experienced Unix/Linux system administrators) is how to proceed to the next level. How do I move from a support job into a administrator job? Or maybe even better, how did you manage to get there?

What I am especially interested in is:
- what certificate/course would you recommend me taking?
- what topics should I focus on?
- what else do you recommend me doing to make the transition as smooth as possible?

I was thinking to do the following:
- try to get the RHCSA (or possibly RHCE) certification under my belt
- focus on shell scripting (maybe Perl)

What are your thoughts? Keep in mind that I am currently living and working in Europe (not sure if that makes a difference?).

Thanks in advance for your time and suggestions!

kalignas

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proto

proto(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  proto(4)

NAME

       proto - prototype job file for at

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       When a job is submitted to or the job is constructed as a POSIX shell script (see at(1)).  The job file is created in as follows:

	 o  creates a header describing the job as an job or a job.  jobs submitted to all queues other than queue are listed as jobs.	The header
	    is:

	    for an		job, or

	    for a		job.

	 o  A set of POSIX shell commands is added to make the environment (see environ(5)) for the job the same as the current environment.

	 o  then copies text from the prototype file to the job file, except for special variables that are replaced by other text:

	    Replaced by the current working directory.

	    Replaced by the current file size limit (see
		   ulimit(2)).

	    Replaced by the current umask (see
		   umask(2)).

	    Replaced by the time at which the job should be run,
		   expressed as seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time, preceded by a colon.

	    Replaced by text read by
		   from the standard input (that is, the commands provided to to be run in the job).

	 o  When a job is submitted to queue queue, uses the file as the prototype file if it exists.  Otherwise, it uses the file

EXAMPLES

       The following file creates commands to change the current directory, file size limit, and umask in the job to their  respective	values	as
       they existed when was originally run.  These commands are inserted before the commands in the job:

SEE ALSO

       at(1), queuedefs(4).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

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