mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) (12/12/89)
I am putting together a training course for system administrators, and I
need some help.
Target audience: Sys. Admins. with little or no previous sys. admin.
experience but with a basic working knowledge of UNIX. The systems that the
students are sys. admins. for range in size from small workstations to
mini-supercomputers from various vendors.
My basic outline of what the students will be able to do at the end of
the course is (so far):
Perform start-up and shutdown procedures
Configure and manage user terminals
Create partitions and file systems
Do backups and restores
Check and maintain file system integrity
Control and monitor system security
Add users and user environments
Times for these are still to be decided.
My questions are:
1 - What should be taught and for how long
2 - How long should the course be
I was tempted to add to my basic list: hardware familiarization, system
installation, kernal customizing, and crash recovery but I wasn't sure if there
was enough semi-vendor independent info. in these topics.
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Michael J. Chinni
Chief Scientist, Simulation Techniques and Workplace Automation Team
US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (12/12/89)
In article <21718@adm.BRL.MIL> mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes: | I was tempted to add to my basic list: hardware familiarization, system | installation, kernal customizing, and crash recovery but I wasn't sure if there | was enough semi-vendor independent info. in these topics. If you network you need to add mounting of NFS filesystems. And any admin will have to know how to configure the lp system, either SysV or printcap, possibly both. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon