Hi. Why are we talking about a book? Don't we already have books? E.g.,
Essential System Administration
Unix System Administration Handbook
and now The Practice of System and Network Administration and
Time Management for System Administrators
What's missing is an apprenticeship/internship
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
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> $ perl -ni -e 'print unless /^# BEGIN project/../^# END project/'
> /etc/rc.machine
> $ cat rc-addition >>/etc/rc.machine
Hi, Randal. This is very handy. What is the .. part called and
where can I read more about it, please? I do
Hi, Yves. I recommend "Documentation Writing for System
Administrators" by Mark C. Langston.
http://www.sage.usenix.org/pubs/11_documenting/11_documenting.html
The quality and quantity of my own documentation, and my confidence in
it, all went up using this booklet.
Best,
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Hi.
Could you please write me directly (I'll summarize) if you'd be interested in
purchasing a "Learning Cfengine 3" book -- an introduction to automating
system administration with Cfengine 3, with lots of working examples.
Happy New Year,
http://xkcd.com/705/
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Hey, Paul. I re-posted your question to the Cfengine mailing list.
Here are two answers:
a) There is a component in Cfengine 3 that's like a "do it now" button,
it tells the cfengine clients to pull down the latest policy from the policy
server and execute it: cf-runagent. You run that on the p
Thanks, Mario.
There was one fellow that Mario, David and I talked to, and he signed
up, so I take 1/3 credit for that.
2 1/3 is a personal improvement from my prior LOPSA booth stint of 1
member. I am coming along...
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM, wrote:
> What tips do folks have for getting better at documenting in their daily
> tasks?
Hey, Josh,
Do you have an infrastructure for documentation that makes it easy
and pleasurable to add or update documents? If not, you need to
develop one. Personally,
A friend of mine in Sweden works at a recruiter/consulting company and
is looking for a sys admin with experience with virtualization
(xen/kvm) for a 6 month project starting mid-March. Pay is about USD
85/hour.
He writes:
Either us or the client will handle the visa.
As for the consultant's pro
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:33 PM, wrote:
> But seriously, yes, we've got a wiki in place. I've used DocBook
> before, and I liked it, but honestly, it's hard enough to get people to
> use the wiki, let alone the simple wiki markup. Throw XML into the mix
> and buy-in from the team goes way down,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Robert Brockway
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> I find that going in and fixing documentation can be a relaxing Friday
> afternoon acitivity if you're too burned out to solve some deep technical
> problem :) Does that make me a geek? :)
No way, mate. That just makes you a practical s
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
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> Hi.
>
> Could you please write me directly (I'll summarize) if you'd be interested in
> purchasing a "Learning Cfengine 3" book -- an introduction to automating
> system administration with Cfengi
Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state,
in "Statistical Exclusions":
The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
throughout this document.
Can anybody shed light on what it takes to get
Hey, Matt. I appreciate your passion.
Sometimes you have to take it slow in the beginning to make
progress in the long run. Sort of "settle in" with the existing
organization.
Keep fighting the good fight.
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BTW, here is one of those jobs - Finance, NYC
http://regionalhelpwanted.com/Search/detail.cfm?SN=204&ID=30173705&jexp=3
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Hi. I'm a little late to this thread but wanted to drop in the
following tidbit:
Alva Couch's slide18 from LISA 2004 presentation on Configuration Management :
A common myth dispelled
- Many people seem to believe that the choice of *tool* determines
ease of configuration management.
- In fac
"Intro to Automating System Administration with Cfengine 3" article in
Linux-Mag.com today - by Aleksey Tsalolikhin and Neil Watson
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7802/1.html
Cheers,
Aleksey
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Joe McDonagh
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> Damion, are you using puppet? If so, I recommend you do your docs inside
> the manifests and use puppetdoc to generate an up-to-date set of docs
> every night. Writing docs by hand at a volume of ~100 servers is not
> something most people wil
Anybody up for a LOPSA dinner on Friday after the USENIX conference in Boston?
Best,
Aleksey
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First of all, well done on getting the LOPSA name up in lights on the
conference web site.
What is the nature of the cooperation?
Just curious,
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
> wrote:
>> First of all, well done on getting the LOPSA name up in lights on the
>> conference web site.
>>
>> What is the nature of the cooperation?
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
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> Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between those
> guys, or even one including commercial products?
Hi, Yves. As you may have heard, there is a LISA 2010 paper coming up
that is exactly what you asked for in May
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