A Sysadmin for Sysadmins?

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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Re:suck by LurkerXXX · 2006-02-23 16:42 · Score: 1, Funny

if you, as a system administrator, were forced to have a system administrator, what would you expect of that role
I'd expect them to know how easy it is to get trapped in the tape vault if they aren't nice to the other BOFH's in the office.
Gah! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-23 18:33 · Score: 1, Funny

instead of shiny foil or whatever it is non-sysadmins think about.

As a non-sysadmin I take extreme offense to that! It's not fai--- Ooh! Bouncy ball!