Sys. Admin. course

[Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E]

	I am putting together a training course for system administrators, and I
need some help. 

	Target audience: Sys. Admins. with little or no previous sys. admin.
experience but with a basic working knowledge of UNIX.  The systems that the
students are sys. admins. for range in size from small workstations to
mini-supercomputers from various vendors.  

	My basic outline of what the students will be able to do at the end of
the course is (so far):
	Perform start-up and shutdown procedures
	Configure and manage user terminals
	Create partitions and file systems
	Do backups and restores
	Check and maintain file system integrity
	Control and monitor system security
	Add users and user environments
Times for these are still to be decided.

My questions are:
	1 - What should be taught and for how long
	2 - How long should the course be

I was tempted to add to my basic list: hardware familiarization, system
installation, kernal customizing, and crash recovery but I wasn't sure if there
was enough semi-vendor independent info. in these topics.

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			    Michael J. Chinni
      Chief Scientist, Simulation Techniques and Workplace Automation Team
	 US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
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