Re: How much Unix?

Dear Mr. Majestic

In my experience, as a DBA, you go with what you get from your System Admin (and I have seen some pretty ordinary installations of Unix - like no man pages etc.). On one place I worked for a while, they had everything, and when I say everything, I mean it. Place used to run C shell scripts, Korn shell scripts, Bourne shell scripts ane Pearl scripts (the rest of the back end is unbelievable too - Pro*C, Pro*C++, modular SQL, PL/SQL) and from what I gathered, it was not done by design or choice, but each back-end developer liked a certain flavour, or wanted to learn a certain language, he was quite welcome to use it.

On other place they did not have any shells installed except Korn, so you did not have any choice.

IMHO, C shell and Korn shell will cover at least 90% of Unix market. Of course, you will need to learn platform and version specific system commands, and you will have to play with manuals for your environment.

Anyway, I believe that shell scripting should not be a major problem. Once you figure out variable substitution and regular expressions, you should be OK.

HTH Kresimir Fabijanic

• Original Message ----- From: Mr. Majestic <rc_at_neomenia.com> To: kevin edwards <kevinedba_at_yahoo.com>; <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>; 'lazydba' <oracledba_at_quickdoc.co.uk> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:34 PM Subject: Re: How much Unix?

> Just wanted to thank you for the information you gave on Unix. Now I can
get
> started on learning the OS. One last question? What shell programming do
> you mostly encounter as a DBA?
>
>
> thanks
> --
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kevin edwards <kevinedba_at_yahoo.com>
> To: Mr. Majestic <rc_at_neomenia.com>; <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>; 'lazydba'
> <oracledba_at_quickdoc.co.uk>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:52 PM
> Subject: Re: How much Unix?
>
>
> > Just my 2 cents ....
> >
> > DBA's should be able to accomplish the following
> >
> > 1. Basic troubleshooting of network connectivity
> > issues
> > i.e. netstat, ping, snoop
> >
> > 2. Server process monitoring & troubleshooting
> > i.e. sar, ps, truss, kill -HUP, top, kill -9 (my
> > favorite)
> >
> > 3. Disk performance monitoring & troubleshooting
> > i.e. vmstat, iostat
> >
> > 4. Shell programming (a absolute must)
> >
> > 5. Symaphore configurations (values & meaning)and
> > troubleshooting
> > i.e. ipcs, ipcrm
> >
> > 6. package info & installation
> > pgkinfo , pkgadd, pkgchk
> >
> > 7. Raid configurations & raw disks setup and
> > identifying whats installed
> >
> > 8. Server configuration
> > i.e. sysinfo, dmesg
> >
> > 9. General Server diagnotics
> > i.e. dmesg, vmstat, sar, iostat, ipcs,top,ps
> >
> > 10. General unix commands
> > i.e. rm, rmdir, mkdir, chmod, chown , dd, cpio,
> > etc..
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Mr. Majestic" <rc_at_neomenia.com> wrote:
> > > If your an Oracle DBA, How much Unix should you
> > > know? Shell programming? etc....
> > >
> >
> >
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Received on Wed Jun 14 2000 - 05:45:19 CDT