Re: DBA-Sys admin Relationship - Need help to define it

From: Jeff Schave <schave_at_cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 1996/02/24
Message-ID: <4gnj2b$1ses_at_news.doit.wisc.edu>#1/1


badri (badri_at_cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
> Hi:
 

> I am a newly transitioned DBA. I was a developer. I am
> having trouble defining where the DBA should be in the hierarchy
> with respect to Sys admins and also what should fall under the
> realm of the responsibility of the DBA. It seems as though the
> following aspects of our company's set-up are sub-optimal and I need your
> reflection on the same.

Ask your sysadmin to look at a package called sudo. Sudo allows non-root users to perform specific tasks like umount a tape, mount a cdrom, perform a backup, etc.

Jeff

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Received on Sat Feb 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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