[ale] Question

[Jim Kinney]

+10 on homework!

get a pile of old crap and make it "do things". Set up a web server, an NFS
server,  and a samba machine for windows file and  print. Make everything
talk to everything. Do things on a winders box and then do them better on
the Linux box. Put MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same machine with the same
data and test which one runs faster. Retest from a winders machine. retest
through a webserver. That take some scripting/coding, some administration
and some engineering.

<time to piss off the ubuntu/debian/slackware/gentoo fans>

Get CentOS and read the RedHat documentation
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/ . Use nothing but CentOS 5 or
CentOS6 (CentOS is the poor mans RHEL). The vast majority of paying jobs
that come across the ale-jobs list (and that recruiters hit me as well) are
for REDHAT. By vast majority, I mean 80+%. That doesn't mean some other
distro won't work. But RHEL background will get your foot in the door.
Configs between RHEL and Ubuntu are totally not compatible until you
totally understand all bootup aspects of both distros AND are a bash guru.

<end RHEL love fest>

Learn virtualization and clustering. Be able to pull the power cord out of
a crap box and have it's backup system pick up automatically. Learn
scripting! Bash is your friend! Automate everything! Make your systems sort
email by sender's 3rd letter of their last name (useless but a hard
scripting exercise!). Don't use a gui for anything except viewing pictures!
Learn backup methods from mondo to bacula.

Use your local teachers as resources for extra experience. Ask if there is
anything you can do to get more exposure. Ask for extra projects or for lab
time working with them. Most profs will show a willingness to take on a
total newbie if the newbie shows they are _MOTIVATED_TO_LEARN_.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Mike Fletcher <fletch at phydeaux.org>wrote:
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>> On Dec 26, 2011, at 17:49, jesse james <yoshi_mush_room at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I currently in school trying to get a Bachelor's in IT. I want to be a
>> Linux admin. But the every job I see is require at least 5 years experience
>> in Red Hat administration. How would I go looking for something that
>> doesn't require as much experience like an internship or something that
>> would build my experience.
>>
>>
>> You might check with your campus IT group and see if they have any part
>> time openings. Even if they don't have admin openings for students you
>> might find an ops position that gets you a foot in the door and contacts
>> with the admins.
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> Start building that administration experience by setting up a network at
> home, and certainly look for non-profits that might be able to get you in
> as a volunteer.  Volunteer experience is still experience.
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