"Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at techmonkeys.org> writes: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:14:40AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > > > > Software engineers are not systems administrators. > > It depends, a lot of system administration involves writing little scripts > here and there for automation of tedius tasks, as well as writing front- > ends for the sales/tech support/accounting droids. I think it goes > hand-in-hand (although I don't think system admins would be writing > anything to be used by anyone else but the company) Certainly system administration involves some coding, at least the level of scripts and often more ambitious stuff too. Writing small utilities is *not* the same thing as working on major development projects! I've always thought sysadmins (at least the good ones) were underappreciated, and running my own servers here has not made me think any less highly of the skills and amount of work they have to handle. But it's a very different sort of job, even if there are significant overlaps in the skill sets. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info