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Introductory course on Unix sysadminning (includes notes, slides, homework, and labs)
- charlesju 18y agoI don't know if this is a good thing but on the 2nd slide of the first lecture it says the grading is P/NP (pass and no pass), for a minute I was trying to figure out why algorithmic complexity has anything to do with grading.
- apexauk 18y agothe same thing occurred to me after reading the first half of your comment..
- donw 18y agoOne of the most important things about being an admin (that being my nominal career) is the human factor, and this is addressed in only a couple of books. As a sysadmin, you are responsible for keeping the show going for a big pile of people, and so you need to make sure that you are visible to those people; that you are more than just a name tagged to an email regarding an outage. I made it a habit of introducing myself to new users, and of taking a few minutes every day to walk around in a different area of the company, just to see how things were going. On a couple of occasions, this helped me identify a problem before it got big enough to tip off the monitoring software.
- fgimenez 18y agoIn an interesting side note, this class is taught by the Berkeley open computing facility (OCF) that Hans Reiser co-founded.