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By: goldenguras

goldenguras — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:13:55 +0000

Its interesting to know that you have to have a varied of learning and experience to land a Linux job. I was wondering back in 2004 that how about taking a class in COMPTIA + certification and pass the test. I took the class and still am learning the administration part of the Linux. You think taking the exam and passing would enable to get a job in linux!. Any thought.

By: gabriel

gabriel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:53:33 +0000

though i disagree with the approach bender took, i would have to agree that the title of this article is a bit misleading. bender is correct, to land a linux job, you do need to know a good bit more than what you posted.

and then to follow his comment with a counter showing jobs for sys admin’s? c’mon, thats not linux, thats scripting..

now if you said linux applications you must be familiar with if you plan on landing a LAMP admin job, i would whole-heartedly agree, but you did specify only linux

anywho, you have a great list here, and from what i see of most comments, you did forget GREP … oops, must of had a momentary brain fart.

i would also add svn or git or csv to that list, and possibly trac

By: Bill in Detroit

Bill in Detroit — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:45:27 +0000

This is a good start on such a list, but it is not (nor could it ever be) a ‘final’ listing. The ‘deal’ for a Linux admin is to learn quickly, read voraciously, and always, always, always protect the data before trying out anything new.

By: bah

bah — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:44:59 +0000

Dude. The only command you need is man.

By: robb

robb — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:30 +0000

linux job sounds too much for this.
if u really must include a linux job, u’ll need a little more advance terms than these.

By: Yusuf

Yusuf — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:56:15 +0000

Nice links but..

The most important skill a *nix admin must have is to be able to learn a tool or software in a very short time.

Also, you completely forgot hardware skills. Net-Installing a system, lvm or raid a system in different levels. Programming in C and Python (at least the basics) and being able to learn and understand other languages.

Best regards Yusuf

By: IanEff

IanEff — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:20:32 +0000

I think that a better title for this post might be “*NIX Life Skills,” or “Necessary Survival Skills When Confronted by a Eunuch.” This is a great list of introductory skills for anyone aiming to swim, rather than sink, in the world of the command line, and the articles you’ve referenced are all pretty damned good introductions. Additionally, anyone who boned up on the tried-and-trues listed above would easily make it through at least the initial phone screening at my company.

Any attempts at an exhaustive list are, of course, futile, but the recommendations so far– grep, awk, tcpdump and nmap– are good. I’d also add ps, sed, xargs (oh xargs, you treat me so well, and I treat you so badly), mounting and unmounting most any file system, and the basics of configuring and installing a program from source code. In this day and age, it’s also helpful to know the basics of VMware, VLANning, gdb or truss, clustered computing and storage technologies, and (maybe most importantly) how to leverage Google to figure out all the other junk that you don’t know.

Because really, the list goes on, and on, and on, and on…

By: foo

foo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:18:47 +0000

Most job postings are placed by HR people who really don’t know know much about computers, let alone Linux. If someone came to me knowing only that stuff they’d be assigned to level 1 help desk.

By: morgan.goose

morgan.goose — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:10 +0000

A few more to add on the list:
xargs
locate/updatedb
screen (great w/ irssi and mutt)
man
make
(h)top
chown (just to round out chmod)