[BSDCert] Unix sysadmin requirements

[Piotr Klein]

Not at all !!!


> Hi All.
>
> From my experiences, good admin should have sufficient knowledge  
> about C programming. He/She sould be familiar with system functions  
> like:
> - fork(), waitpid()
> - open(), read(), write()
> - socket(), bind(), listen(), accept()
> - shm*()
> - ...
>
> I can't see the possibility about proper system understanging and  
> tuning without such knowledge. In the end, FreeBSD is written in C.
>
>

You are talking about "System Engineer" not "SysAdmin"


> I've found out, that people with poor understanding of C system  
> functions are also poor admins, when we speak about high volume  
> servers.
> They simply can't diagnose/explain/solve heavy traffic problems.
>

SysAdmin should do much, much more than solve traffic problems


>
> If i'd have to make a choice of recruitment, that would be  
> important topic at the interview.
>
> For the purpose of certification, I'd suggest for example a piece 
> (s) of broken/badly written C code with questions about a problem  
> there.
>

again -  System Engineer, Programmer...etc NOT "SysAdmin"


>
> Best Regards
>
> Piotr Rybicki
> http://www.innervision.pl
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Grettings
/Piotr Klein