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How to get hired as a Unix sys admin?
Post 56462 by PaulC on Monday 4th of October 2004 04:43:00 AM
10-04-2004
Qualifications and certifications can certainly help but in my opinion if I had to choose between someone with qualifications/certification and someone with a good few years experience then I would always go with the experienced guys.
Certification can only take you so far, I don't think there is any substition for the real experience of having been there and done it..
Plus there is nowhere on the exam that prepares you for some dimwitted cowboy electrician pulling plugs out of and E4500 whilst trying to remove cabling from a server room just as your about to go home...
Certification can only take you so far, I don't think there is any substition for the real experience of having been there and done it..
Plus there is nowhere on the exam that prepares you for some dimwitted cowboy electrician pulling plugs out of and E4500 whilst trying to remove cabling from a server room just as your about to go home...
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vpcd(8) powerman vpcd(8) NAME
vpcd - virtual power control daemon SYNOPSIS
vpcd [--port PORT] DESCRIPTION
vpcd is a test program for PowerMan which emulates a remote power control device. It can be run interactively by the powerman daemon, or it can listen on a port of your choosing. OPTIONS
-p, --port PORT Instructs vpcd to listen for connections on the specified port instead of using stdin/stdout. Only one connection will be accepted. INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
The following commands are available at the vpcd> prompt: login The login command must br run before any of the other commands will work. No username or password is required. logoff Return vpcd to the initial state. stat PLUG|* Show the power status of PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. beacon PLUG|* Show the beacon status of PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. temp PLUG|* Show the temperature of the node attached to PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. spew COUNT Print COUNT 80-char lines. This is the basis of a buffer handling test. on PLUG|* Turn on PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. off PLUG|* Turn off PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. flash PLUG|* Light the beacon on PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. unflash PLUG|* Unlight the beacon on PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. reset PLUG|* Reset the node attached to PLUG. If PLUG is ``*'', perform this action on all plugs. FILES
/usr/sbin/vpcd ORIGIN
PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. SEE ALSO
powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7). http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman powerman-2.3.5 2009-02-09 vpcd(8)