Life in the Trenches: a Sysadmin Speaks

[Peter Motyka]

From Slashdot.org...

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 01, @08:57AM
from the they-can-speak? dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "A senior systems administrator at a big ISP in Australia offers a no-nonsense view about his line of work, the pros and the cons, ths ups and the downs."

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/31/2318236.shtml?tid=99

[William Grim]

Wow, that article just about said it all, except I think programming plays a nice role in it as well.

I personally think that the better you can program (as a sysadmin), then the better you can administer your systems.

He said a lot of great points about knowing what and what does not work and how to represent newer, potential changes to a company without scaring people or disrupting their work; this is all stuff I will remember.

Well, great article with an honest guy.

Talk to you later.

[Peter Motyka]

He briefly mentioned that he is a developer for the Debian Linux Project.  Since software development is a bit out of the scope of the article, he probably elected to not elaborate further.  I too feel that programming skills make system administration tasks easier.  Not only do they make thing easier, but they usually help in implementing better solutions.

Peter