programming help needed??

[Margueritte]

Hi

I have been using Ubuntu for approximately 5 years as an in-house network system for my own company. I recently decided to try and go "salaried".

I would like to obtain the necessary programming knowledge etc to be able to obtain a job position as a Systems Administrator. What programs should I learn (I am all self-taught) to be able to achieve this?? Any info would be appreciated.

[jfed]

Do you mean "what programming languages"?

Confused me a bit :P

[haqking]

Hi

I have been using Ubuntu for approximately 5 years as an in-house network system for my own company. I recently decided to try and go "salaried".

I would like to obtain the necessary programming knowledge etc to be able to obtain a job position as a Systems Administrator. What programs should I learn (I am all self-taught) to be able to achieve this?? Any info would be appreciated.

Well being a developer and a System Admin are 2 different things.

So you want to be a Sys Admin and have some programming knowledge, well any langauge is good, start with Python and some C maybe, then some Web based such as Perl Php etc seeing as a Sys Admin will often deal with web servers.

Depends what the languages are used in the company where you will be salaried.

As a Sys Admin you wont be doing much programming other than scripting anyways.

[nothingspecial]

bash

[Margueritte]

Thank you.. I will start with python!!

[haqking]

Thank you.. I will start with python!!

well as nothingspecial said above me, as a sys admin you are far better spending your time learning bash.

bash scripting etc will be the majority of the programing you do in that job.

[RiceMonster]

You do not need much programming knowledge to be a sysadmin. It's more important that you be familiar with the system. However, it would be a good idea to be familiar with shell scripting (ex. bash) and perl.

[Margueritte]

Thank you for all the info, I will first learn bash.. then perl.. then python..

This is very exciting for me... I have stagnated for a while... a few years ago I went thru a huge learning curve doing websites, databases and now something new.

[karlson]

Hi

I have been using Ubuntu for approximately 5 years as an in-house network system for my own company. I recently decided to try and go "salaried".

I would like to obtain the necessary programming knowledge etc to be able to obtain a job position as a Systems Administrator. What programs should I learn (I am all self-taught) to be able to achieve this?? Any info would be appreciated.

Being a former SA you would need:

bash, perl, awk, sed, python.

If you will be supporting Solaris or other variants of Unix, learn sh and ksh.

Everything else would be gravy.

[karlson]

You do not need much programming knowledge to be a sysadmin.

I disagree. Without ability to write scripts and other more elaborate programs a sysadmin could face a lot of tedious repetitive labor(user/group fs creation), which bored me out of my skull....