A Sysadmin for Sysadmins? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Thursday February 23, 2006 @02:50PM from the who-admins-the-administrators dept.

crazyharry asks: "I have recently been hired to be a system administrator to a bunch of system administrators. Aside from my personal experience, which is probably biased, I would like to know from the disproportionately large number of IT people here: if you, as a system administrator, were forced to have a system administrator, what would you expect of that role? How would you want your business machines (not the ones you admin, but your daily use machines) managed, if they were not up to this point? This is a mixed environment (Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix), so feel free to assume I've already heard the 'leave me the FSCK alone' comments. What other issues are probably going to crop up, if you have been in a similar situation?"

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What? by Aeiri · 2006-02-23 15:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What is the point? System administrators can administer their own computers, they usually have quite a bit of time on their hands anyway. Even if their own system is hosed during a time of crisis, all they will ever need is a computer with a NIC and a CD drive to plop Knoppix in and SSH into the servers...

I can't imagine what you would possibly have a use for...