On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:03:03PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 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.
To me, sysadmin means backup schemes which cover all the points on the Tao of backup¹; a deployed configuration management system; CI-style automated testing processes for it; VM infrastructure; failover; migration processes; monitoring… and so on. 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. > 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. Nowadays a sysadmin should be telling their CM software what packages to install, which in turn run apt-get, RPM, whatever… ¹ <http://www.taobackup.com/sanctuary.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131011122428.GB25042@debian
