[BSDCert] About UNIX sysadmin requirement

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] J. Rafael Gómez G." wrote:

> I'm agree with Kevin Reiter about that C language is not necessary to admin
> any UNIX but I think that it is necessary to have a good level of shell
> programming. The real question is: What shell should be considered the de
> facto standard for shell programming? csh? ksh? sh?
> Or derivatives as tcsh, bash, o zsh?

It would be sh. Most shell scripts are written with /bin/sh. We can't 
assume that /bin/sh is "ksh" especially since some versions of ksh are 
different than other versions of ksh. Also, bashisms would not be 
appropriate for base BSD installs.

I also think that a good level of shell programming is useful. We don't 
know yet how basic of Unix essentials and shell programming the certs will 
cover yet. The survey was very long as it was and it didn't even get to 
details covering "Unix" fundamentals.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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