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| Networking1 2003-01-12, 6:34 pm |
| Im currently working on Net+ and I want to get into UNIX administration.
I want to start learning the C language, because someone told me UNIX has a lot to do with the language. Is this a good way to go for UNIX admin? | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2003-01-13, 1:03 pm |
| You can be a competent UNIX systen administrator without knowing C. I suggest you learn the basics of UNIX first . . . the various admininstration commands, backing stuff up, file system layout and so on, then at a leter date, learn C. UNIX is written in the C programming language, so if you want to tailor the utilities or commands to suit your particular needs, it would be a good idea. But don't think you can't be a good UNIX admin without it. Knowing the shell is actually more important unless you are a developer. | |
| ccieToBe 2003-01-14, 12:48 am |
| Yeah, you don't need to know C to use Unix. Just to give you an idea of to what extend this is true, the main thing I do at my job is administering a few FreeBSD servers yet I'm taking an intro the programming course at my college. I do a small amount of Perl, a lot of bash, some HTML, and have never touched C. I'm sure knowing C would help, but so far I haven't run into any programming task that couldn't be accomplished through some combination of these 3 languages. | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2003-01-14, 6:32 am |
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Originally posted by ccieToBe
Yeah, you don't need to know C to use Unix. Just to give you an idea of to what extend this is true, the main thing I do at my job is administering a few FreeBSD servers yet I'm taking an intro the programming course at my college. I do a small amount of Perl, a lot of bash, some HTML, and have never touched C. I'm sure knowing C would help, but so far I haven't run into any programming task that couldn't be accomplished through some combination of these 3 languages.
Yeah, the only time I actually *have* to use C is when making suggested bug fixes to a program or coding device drivers or something. Then again, if you want to take advantage 100% of open source software's capabilities, you have to be able to read the code.  But for most, it isn't necessary. | |
| ccieToBe 2003-01-14, 11:34 am |
| Of course, you'll have to know how to compile code from the source and use compilation arguments if you want to get far with Unix. That's a far cry from knowing C though. | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2003-01-14, 12:21 pm |
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Originally posted by ccieToBe
Of course, you'll have to know how to compile code from the source and use compilation arguments if you want to get far with Unix. That's a far cry from knowing C though.
Yeah, I agree. To compile most stuff from source all you have to know is "./configure" and "make". |
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