[ale] Training recommendations

[DJ-Pfulio]

Many years ago, I was sent to basic Unix training for a week. It was $2500 and a firehose for someone like me with next to zero skills at the time, but a desire to learn. I'd been programming dos, windows, os/2, and mvs for years.

Work through http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php as a user-primer. Admins need that background FIRST, before an other training. 
LPI used to have admin 101 and 102 free resources. lpi.jdpfu.com has some from 2017-ish.

Really some sort of mentor is required or you'll never know what you don't know. That leads to doing things the hard way, almost always. Thinking the "unix way" is a process.

Of course all these these things take effort, practice and desire.

Be certain to get not just formal training, but a raise for each course passed.  A RHEL cert should add $15K to a salary over what an LPI cert does, on average. More valuable employees should be paid more.

On 10/26/21 1:31 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> https://youtu.be/NuPolrd9yuo <https://youtu.be/NuPolrd9yuo>
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 13:25 John Temple via Ale <ale at ale.org
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
> Well our posting for a new Sr. Linux Admin has been up for over a
> month now and we have one applicant. This morning my boss said it
> looks like I may need to become our linux guy.
> 
> I have done a little configuration here and there, mostly LAMP stuff
> and then there were a couple of linux classes well over a decade ago
> during my undergrad.
> 
> Any suggestions for bootcamps or something? I need to focus on system
> administration and troubleshooting (yes, I can hear several of you
> laughing at the moment) . I know I am not really going to learn much
> for the later in a training class.
> 
> Oh wait, there was a linux class that was offered here several years
> ago and it covered: cd, cp, mv, chown, chmod, ls and that is it! I
> knew the class was titled as basic but come on all of six commands. I
> told the instructor I know those commands were important but is there
> going to be a class on perhaps a more intermediate level? Sadly the
> response was a resounding "No".
> 
> -- John Temple cjtemple at gmail.com <mailto:cjtemple at gmail.com>