sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:24:57 -0500
>> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Being retired, I've no aspirations of being a sysadmin.
>>>
>>
>> If you run Linux, you already are. You don't get to choose.
>>
>
> I disagree. I may perform sysadmin tasks, that does not make me one.
> For comparison:
> A chef prepares meals for groups of people.
> I've prepared breakfast for 100 people after an Easter sunrise service.
> Does that make me a chef? Not if you seen the rest of my repertoire ;/
It makes you a specialty chef. ;-)
I've passed the LPIC at level 1. That makes me qualified to be a jr.
sysadmin in some people's eyes. (I'm no smarter after taking the test
than before, particularly because there's no way to review my wrong
answers.) This is all bogus.
As someone said, if nobody else admins your box for you, you are the
sysadmin for your box. It does not belittle professional sysadmins to
acknowledge that you are doing the job any more than it belittles
professional woodworkers to admit that a weekend carpenter works in
wood.
On the converse, I think it is a crime to promise (as makers of
certain popular OSses do) that you can properly use a computer or
other computer-based communication device without administering or
managing the computer system.
We're a long way from being able to build internet terminals that
people can use as simply as they use a phone, and it's quite possible
that it can't really be done.
But, yeah, if you are using apt-get or aptitude (or even synaptic) to
maintain the software on your debian box, you are already performing
the work of a jr. level sysadmin. You are your own sysadmin.
But if it stresses you out to worry about that, then I take it all back. ;-P
--
Joel Rees
Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.
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