02-23-2011
Windows Admin switching to *nix Admin
I'm currently a Windows admin and have wanted to jump ship to the *nix side for a while now. I've been studying both through an lpic level 1 manual as I have time (focusing on debian), and a solaris 10 cert book. The problem is I only have a handful of hours a week to study, and my current job offers no exposure to *nix. I guess my questions would be, what would be some small projects to work on at home (admin type, scripting, etc - I'm not really a programmer though) that would be similar to in a corporate environment (other than setting up a wordpress site, lamp environment, etc which is what other people have told me to do), and once I feel comfortable looking, what kind of a job would I look for? I'm in my mid 20's, have about 4 years of windows admin experience and 0 "real world" *nix measurable experience - would I just be looking for an intro *nix helpdesk/junior *nix role? Or should I be looking for a mixed Windows/*nix environment so I'm not restarting my career from scratch?
I figure there's a few people who have made a similar switch here. And I know there are similar forums, but there's always some new people willing to comment with ideas that haven't been posted before :-)
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module::install::admin
Module::Install::Admin(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Module::Install::Admin(3)
NAME
Module::Install::Admin - Author-side manager for Module::Install
SYNOPSIS
In a Module::Install extension module:
sub extension_method {
my $self = shift;
$self->admin->some_method(@args);
}
As an one-liner:
% perl "-MModule::Install::Admin" -e'&some_method(@args);'
The two snippets above are really shorthands for
$some_obj->some_method(@args)
where $some_obj is the singleton object of a class under the "Module::Install::Admin::*" namespace that provides the method "some_method".
See "METHODS" for a list of built-in methods.
DESCRIPTION
This module implements the internal mechanism for initializing, including and managing extensions, and should only be of interest to
extension developers; it is never included under a distribution's inc/ directory, nor are any of the Module::Install::Admin::* extensions.
For normal usage of Module::Install, please see Module::Install and "COOKBOOK / EXAMPLES" in Module::Install instead.
Bootstrapping
When someone runs a Makefile.PL that has "use inc::Module::Install", and there is no inc/ in the current directory, Module::Install will
load this module bootstrap itself, through the steps below:
o First, Module/Install.pm is POD-stripped and copied from @INC to inc/. This should only happen on the author's side, never on the end-
user side.
o Reload inc/Module/Install.pm if the current file is somewhere else. This ensures that the included version of inc/Module/Install.pm is
always preferred over the installed version.
o Look at inc/Module/Install/*.pm and load all of them.
o Set up a "main::AUTOLOAD" function to delegate missing function calls to "Module::Install::Admin::load" -- again, this should only
happen at the author's side.
o Provide a "Module::Install::purge_self" function for removing included files under inc/.
METHODS
SEE ALSO
Module::Install
AUTHORS
Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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