[SOLVED] Unsure on Qualifications to do with a Linux sysadmin

runlevel3 · 05-07-2010, 12:40 PM

At the moment I am in my tenth year at School (UK)
and I am not sure where about I should go to become a Linux sysadmin.
Does anybody know what kind of requirements are set for this job?
and what kind of things I can do now to get better at administering systems.

Currently I 'understand' the command line but am not fluent and only first used a Linux Distro about a year ago (xubuntu for my old pc)
and am now toying with Arch Linux (And enjoying it

)

But I am stuck on where to go now

That's why I am here

Thanks

ctkroeker · 05-07-2010, 12:48 PM

Just keep on playing with different distributions until you are comfortable with them. Learn some bash, do some scripting, set up a mail/ftp/web server just for the heck of it... Just search around to find out what sysadmins do and learn those things. Of course, as far as Jobs go, it "might" help to have a Linux Certification like at http://www.lpi.org/ but basically you just learn what you can from the internet, forums and such.

runlevel3 · 05-07-2010, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ctkroeker

Just keep on playing with different distributions until you are comfortable with them. Learn some bash, do some scripting, set up a mail/ftp/web server just for the heck of it... Just search around to find out what sysadmins do and learn those things. Of course, as far as Jobs go, it "might" help to have a Linux Certification like at http://www.lpi.org/ but basically you just learn what you can from the internet, forums and such.

And you have just described mostly of what I do on the computer, break things + fix things :P