[ale] Training recommendations

[Ed Cashin]

That's a good question.  Some of the ALE participants are old enough to
predate the bootcamps and certifications that are now available, and I'm
one.  Whatever you wind up doing, I'd suggest making time to build, try,
and destroy systems.  If you get a couple Raspberry Pi tiny computers, for
example, or a little test bed of four computers, you can try installing
different operating systems; maybe graduate to using PXE to do it if you're
interested; set up a wireful LAN (closed off from any other network, so
mistakes are cheap) and have one machine serve DNS to the others; set up an
NTP server; try out qmail (do people still use qmail?  It used to be the
secure choice in 2002 or so); set up LDAP and have the other machines
authenticate using that; ...

These are ambitious goals, each of which provides an interesting context
for learning more about basics like chmod and intermediate stuff like PAM
or kernel modules.  Learning in little projects like these will sometimes
get you ahead of the bootcamps and certification programs before you
realize it, and you'll be learning general ways to get things done, not
specifics tied to a certain distro.


On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:25 PM John Temple via Ale <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".
>
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