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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Move From Unix Administration to Development??? Post 302551003 by clx on Monday 29th of August 2011 04:54:20 AM

08-29-2011

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It purely based on your interests and the opportunities you get.

I started my IT career as a Software Tester (having no knowledge of UNIX) .
During the time I learned some basic shell scripting and After 2 years, I got opportunity to switch into Development.
During development, I sharpen my Unix Skill and learned Perl.
I also got chance to learn and work for many other related skills (or I can say I choose to learn). because, when you are a developer, you are free to choose among several options to develop something and you can not learn faster until you get an assignment/task. So that is the most important.

Today, I know Unix Scripting, Perl, HTML, PHP and couple of other similar tools. However not expert, but I can comfortably work on these skills.

As far as your point to choose between Unix administration and development, There is not much difference. It is mainly what else you want to learn.
I do lot of admin work during the development. for example, I don't want to go to admins if I need to install some Perl modules, configuring apache for my requirement, updating various configuration files etc. All the developers at least, know some basic administration tasks.

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shutdown

asadmin-shutdown(1AS)                                              User Commands                                             asadmin-shutdown(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-shutdown, shutdown - brings down the administration server

SYNOPSIS

       shutdown [--user admin_user][--password admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s]

       shutdown  gracefully brings down the administration server and all the running instances. You must manually start the administration server
       to bring it up again.

OPTIONS

       --user                  administrative user associated for the instance.

       --password              administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.

       --host                  host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.

       --port                  administrative port number associated with the administrative host.

       --passwordfile          file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).

       --secure                if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance.

       Example 1: Using the shutdown command

       asadmin> shutdown --user admin --password adminadmin --host bluestar --port 4848
       Waiting for admin server to shutdown...
       Admin server has been shutdown

EXIT STATUS

       0                       command executed successfully

       1                       error in executing the command

INTERFACE EQUIVALENT

       Administration Server page

       asadmin-start-instance(1AS), asadmin-stop-instance(1AS), asadmin-restart-instance(1AS)asadmin-start-domain(1AS),  asadmin-stop-domain(1AS),
       asadmin-start-appserv(1AS), asadmin-stop-appserv(1AS)

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