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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 07:49:19 GMT, nada@nada.com.au <nada@nada.com.au> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:22:42 +1100, "Wayne" <wjackson@powerup.com.au>
>wrote:
>
>Wayne have you been to Humbug, ie the Brisbane Users meeting and talk
>to some of small ISP people who go.
>
>There is a major shortage of people with any skills.
>
>
> 
>>I have the experience but now I need the formal training.  I have been using
>>Linux on and off since 1994, and now after applying to countless jobs asking
>>about SysA I get told sorry you need formal/commercial training, and they
>>refuse to do the training.
>

The problem is that the "skills" are msotly knowing how it all fits.

It's damned hard to *really* know tht till you have done it.

There are plenty of people who "use linux at home" but that doesn't
mean they can troubleshoot mail queues, do routing, run a newsfeed,
configure a proxy server or handle time used accounting.

Let alone have a good clue about security issues.

To get that experience, you ahve to do those things.  You have to run
a real newsserver, runa real web server, have other people
hanging off them.

Join APANA.  get a couple of el cheapo 386s or 486s and old cards
and co-ax and network 'em together.  set up user accounts.  use your
webserver and newsserver.  set up the DNS.  get your mates round
to use the boxes.  hook an old 14.4 up to one of them and
get people to dial in and use ppp and shell and pop.

If you have all that happening and working and you can talk intelligently
about newssfeeds and control files and expire times, if you can
show you understand about how sendmail works and the issues of POP
and fetchmail and aliases and even virtual domains...

IN other words you ahve to make your own experience if no one
will give it to you.  You prove to them you have done the
job and that you understand the issues.  You still won't be more
than a trainee, but you will be a trainee who can be productive
in a couple of weeks, not several months.

Using Linux is a start, but it teaches you bugger all about real
systems admin.  

Zebee


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