In my 2nd and last time in academia, I was hired as a network administrator and did a lateral move to Linux sysadmin because I was more competent than them.

I meant the part where you wrote: "I was asked to pick up in university the Linux department"

By the time I moved, I was already responsible for the more important systems because I started helping....

Yeah.

well, I was there because I was a network admin

not a student.

I took care of the firewalls, and switches and routers...and wireless.

Then started automating things and monitoring

I see.

than DNS and DHCP was always down....and I picked that up, and created redundancy

and gave them web interfaces

then I noticed the most important system, the student CRM and grading, had no system admin, and started doing it in my free time

and the rest is....history.

@RuiFRibeiro Sounds like your systems weren't being well run before that.

;)

But my experience is that's quite common.

The systems at Duke were run really bad. And this is a place with a ton of money.

I also ended up setting up netflow monitoring during a big cyber attack...

I think the people hiring didn't know how to hire or how to oversee the work.

Obviously, it's difficult if you don't have a tech background yourself.

I was in a bit of ungrateful postion....a leg on sysadmin and another leg on network admin....when I had a major cyber attack and diverted one month my attention to network and security, people complained to the rectorship I was not being complaint with deadlines.

@RuiFRibeiro You were handling the cyber attack single handed?

@FaheemMitha 3-4 weeks...I was the most senior guy both in networking and systems

I remember when I was doing sysadmin for my group, along with other things, people used to say, when asked, that they didn't have a sysadmin. Which didn't make me feel better about it.

@RuiFRibeiro I see. But you had help?

@FaheemMitha Not much....they only hindered me and got annoyed when I worked of hours.

also a long story.

@RuiFRibeiro heh.

@FaheemMitha Setup netflow and installed it over a weekend.

@RuiFRibeiro I don't know what that is.

Originally Cisco tech. It creates summary of all IP transactions that you can review then later post mortem.

I had like 3 months of all communications registered

@RuiFRibeiro Oh

@slm another one. What bothers me more is that they appear before the true ones

questarter.com/q/…

@FaheemMitha unix.stackexchange.com/questions/318891/…

@FaheemMitha unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327577/…

@slm one thing nice in the university is that I had 1Gbps of bandwith that I could actually use

@slm knowadays in the ISP, I have far less bandwidth for myself.

I wonder why macos is a synonym for osx

@FaheemMitha As for your people telling they had not a sysadmin....backstabbing, bureaucracy at fault, and people not wanting to give you recognizition and fearing your competition...multiple problems at several levels.

is there a way to modify that

@Jesse_b Because Apple in all their backwards wisdom decided two or three years ago OS/X would be renamed to MacOS

@RuiFRibeiro exactly so osx =/= macos

@RuiFRibeiro Well, it's not a perfect world. I'm off - goodnight.

And it was originally macos x the x stood for 10

@FaheemMitha Good night.

@Jesse_b Honestly, after Jobs death, Apple is going down again. The long term plan is killing OS/X-MacOS....

and turing them in a consumer company.

turning

MacOS used to be better IMO

too much fluff, too many bugs

I don't think it was ever good

I do not care wether they call it OSX or MacOranges

but the issue at hand is users are tagging questions with osx making me think their operating system may be years old

It used to be better....what I like on it is that I do not have two jobs, one taking care of the system of my customers, and another taking care of my desktop

@Jesse_b Never noticed...

@Jesse_b You can thank you Tim Cook for that mess.

@RuiFRibeiro: I noticed it from this question: unix.stackexchange.com/q/463054/237982

Replace the tag then

Well I'm not sure if the user has an old mac, and I believe macos will automatically become osx because it's listed as a synonym

unix.stackexchange.com/tags/osx/synonyms

Maybe....strange. I do remember when they were separate, and they were merged.

"the following tags will be remapped to osx"

It is a sad state of affairs, but I believe Apple is at fault in renaming such a succeful product.

Idiocracy comes to mind....

Brand recognition or whatever. That is just what Tim Cook cares nowadays.

Do not know what to say about the tag.

Apple is going on the same road Nokia took when the iPhone was launched...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think you all have some false nostalgia, I don't remember apple ever being good :p

@Jesse_b You're not old enough then: I stopped buying Apple products when the good Steve left the company...

@Fabby I was alive when apple was founded

maybe not

@Jesse_b Were you buying Apple products when The Woz was still around?

In the late 80s/early 90s I worked with a few macintosh machines

I didn

I didn't like them so we used to sell them to a scrapper down the road from my house

the second computer I ever used was an Apple ][c ...

The garbage dump in my town had a warehouse full of computer stuff. My friends and I used to grab a bunch of parts each week, get them working, and then sell them to people in our neighborhood. We mostly only kept anything ibm compatible and offloaded the mac stuff

You're old enough!

:-) ;-) :-)

I do wish I started with unix experience though instead of DOS

damn dirty dos

CP/M here...

latest release was only 35 years ago

probably more secure than windows 10

single-user, single-tasking, no networking: I'd say: yes...

Anyway: Good night!

lol

I started with the ZX Spectrum....cloned by the TC/TS 2048 in the USA

@Jesse_b in a couple of months was using IBM XTs in school

@Jesse_b But Xenix brings some nostalgia lol

@RuiFRibeiro microsoft was the largest distributor of unix in the world at that point