Question for Sysadmins: Certifications

JBod · 19 Sep 2007 at 21:32

Hi there, I want to get a job as a sysadmin (Currently do support and have to do some logging into linux servers but its nothing in depth). We have mainly Ubuntu servers, are there any certifications I can get? Like the CCNA stuff for network engineers. What is there for sysadmins?

Thanks

Una · 19 Sep 2007 at 22:02

Uh there is a red hat certification, dunno if its worth it or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Certification_Program

JBod · 20 Sep 2007 at 10:46

Yea I am already aware of that. If its not an official cert I want something that teaches me linux from the basics up.... For example:

I know ptys and ttys exist... but what are they! How do you do a serial connection? How does ext2 store its data on disk? What is an inode? ..... etc

I want to fully understand the linux operating system.

Subliminal Aura · 20 Sep 2007 at 12:26

Pre-requisite : INTEREST

No interest = FAIL.

Read these or the ones that interest you most and try putting knowledge into action. I loaded them up on my PDA many years back and would read them on the way to work not because I wanted to 'better' myself but because I was interested.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

Once done with that you should be 'pretty good' but do dive into reading the linux kernel documentation and all the HOWTOs will make even more sense.

JBod · 20 Sep 2007 at 13:53

Subliminal Aura said:
Pre-requisite : INTEREST

No interest = FAIL.

Read these or the ones that interest you most and try putting knowledge into action. I loaded them up on my PDA many years back and would read them on the way to work not because I wanted to 'better' myself but because I was interested.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

Once done with that you should be 'pretty good' but do dive into reading the linux kernel documentation and all the HOWTOs will make even more sense.

Fantastic! Most appreciated. I notice some are pretty old while also some have been updated this year. They are all still relevant I take it?

Subliminal Aura · 20 Sep 2007 at 15:09

JBod said:
Fantastic! Most appreciated. I notice some are pretty old while also some have been updated this year. They are all still relevant I take it?

Bread and butter mate - some of those HOWTOs are more than 7 years old and are still pretty much relevant.

The only thing to look out for is differences between the kernels 2.4 and 2.6.

Some of those howtos were written specifically for 2.4. I think a foundation in both kernels is essential.