Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)
On Fri 11 Oct 2013 at 13:24:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Getting a printer to work in Linux or a weekly rsync to a USB HDD
> do not make you a sysadmin any more than managing your current
> (checking in en_US afaik) makes you an accountant.
Eh?
A parent who spends many hours attending to her child's needs when she
is ill is not a nurse.
A person who replaces a blown fuse in a plug to get the TV working again
is not an electrician.
Guiding a person through the intricacies of a foreign language does not
make you a linguist.
Someone who expresses a view on a current situation in the news is not a
politician.
Cooking a splendid meal for four doesn't make you a chef.
Are there any more lables we can attach to people?
In the Debian context, anyone using apt-get is a sysadmin, A mere user
gets:
brian@desktop:~$ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13:
Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission
denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
root?
"are you root?" is the clue. If you are able to be root , you are a
sysadmin. Maybe not a very good one, but, if you want the
responsibility, it is yours; all of it - not just the little bit the OP
may have implied by his throwaway remark.
Of course, we all know a sysadmin role can only be filled by a very
special person.
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