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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? They won't need so many sys admins anymore Post 302956921 by sparcguy on Monday 5th of October 2015 09:51:12 AM

10-05-2015

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I've already gone back to work in HP 3 times previously before already once contract expired I left then later rejoined then resigned and rejoined again.

But in HP once you get laid off it means that position is considered redundant and can no longer be filled by anybody.

Also furthermore this time they have relocated the support overseas to low cost centers.

I think the industry is changing even shrinking with the advent of cloud computing, in time systems are going to get more efficient and cheaper and that will put pressure on operating costs, budgets, salaries they don't need so many sys admins or engineers to run around in-country anymore some places I hear they just have a pool of less than 10 people overseas datacenter can manage several thousand virtual servers on cloud.

Sure I think there are many sys admin jobs around still if I wanted to continue or maybe I should bite the bullet now and break out to try something else.

The only jobs in IT today I see that will be hard to farmed out are:

local desktop support - low pay
it security
audit and compliance

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atrm

atrm(1) 							   User Commands							   atrm(1)

NAME

       atrm - remove jobs spooled by at or batch

SYNOPSIS

       atrm [-afi] [ [ job  #] [user...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The atrm utility removes delayed-execution jobs that were created with the at(1) command, but have not yet executed. The list of these jobs
       and associated job numbers can be displayed by using atq(1).

       atrm removes each job-number you specify, and/or all jobs belonging to the user you specify, provided that you own the indicated jobs.

       You can only remove jobs belonging to other users if you have solaris.jobs.admin privileges.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a	All. Removes all unexecuted jobs that were created by the current user. If invoked by the privileged user, the entire  queue  will
		be flushed.

       -f	Force.	All information regarding the  removal of the specified jobs is suppressed.

       -i	Interactive. atrm asks if a job should be removed. If you respond with a y, the job will be removed.

FILES

       /var/spool/cron/atjobs	       spool area for at jobs

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       at(1), atq(1), auths(1), cron(1M), auth_attr(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    13 Aug 1999 							   atrm(1)