[Cialug] Linux Experience

[Matt Breitbach]

Absolutely.

I'm currently running a gamut of *nix systems, including Ubuntu systems for
SpamAssassin backends, FreeBSD for a firewall and load balancer
(a-la-pfsense), CentOS for running a cPanel server, and OpenSolaris for our
ZFS SAN project.

I'd love to kick at least one system to the curb, probably Ubuntu, since
CentOS is required as a base OS for cPanel, Pfsense is built on FreeBSD (and
I don't want to run bare IPTables) and OpenSolaris is the latest and
greatest for ZFS.

I'm not well versed in scripting of any of these environments, so any
learning I can do would be great, and my guess is that meat and potato's of
the scripting would be relatively portable from distro to distro (with path
changes being the biggest).

I'd probably be able to invest a few hours a week to this endeavor, plus an
hour or two before each LUG.



-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Josh More
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:14 AM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] Linux Experience

So, based on last week's discussion and comments on this list, who all is
serious about wanting some Linux experience?  What distros do you like and
how much time per week would you be willing to devote to learning?

I've had the trouble-maker project for quite some time, and not able to
devote the time to it in the last few years.  If anyone wants to write some
scripts to (reasonably) break systems, this is a good way to get your feet
wet on some sysadmin stuff.  This is not a coding requirement, just the same
sort of basic scripting the admins need to do.

If anyone needs guidance, I'd be willing to start the LUG meeting early
(starting in April) and spend an hour working through issues... if there's
interest.

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701
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