Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:52:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So what do (unix) sysadmins do anyway? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000924213615.28262A-100000@utah> In-Reply-To: <20000925032828.3958.qmail@web1610.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > Am I missing the obvious? The big thing that is missing is that any system (TN. UNix. Mac) does not run in a vacuum. Organizations are demanding more. Systems do need to do maintenance. Maintenace can be scripted in many cases, but you still need a human (well trained, well supported too) to use the brain cells to analyze how well systems are working. Coming from the environment that I do, I state that there is no such thing as a system failure. There are only human failures. you can't possibly program a computer to deal with all the faults we colud impose on a system. A notable fault is a malicious attack. I came from Univerity of Washington in Seattle. There is a man there named Dave Dittrich. He is a great guy. Read this interview on slashdot. It is mostly about security. Security is only a fraction of what can involve a Sysadmins time. Security could also consume ALL of a sysadmins time. There is a ton of wisdom here. Multiply what you read by 100 to get an idea of the scope of the realm of system administration. http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/02/16/1836215.shtml Most notably: "This is one of my pet peeves; THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH GOOD SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS. There needs to be WAY MORE of them, they need to be PAID AND TRAINED BETTER, and (to put it bluntly) they need to be considered a critical resource REQUIRED for powerful computers on the Internet today, not as overhead expense to be minimized." -Dave Dittrich on Slashdot.org Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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