RE: How much Unix?

From: Richard Ji <richard_at_letsplay.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:36:22 -0400
Message-Id: <10527.109095@fatcity.com>

Well, you shouldn't be doing all of this. But having the knowledge of knowing how to do it will help you when you need to. And if the SA is trying to BS you about the problem you can double check it yourself.

Richard Ji

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Rachel Carmichael
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 3:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: How much Unix?

so if I'm doing all this.... when exactly am I being the DBA?

>From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_bcbso.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: How much Unix?
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:53:46 -0800
>
>
>Or more succintly, you should be able to be an SA.
>
>Jared
>
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, kevin edwards wrote:
>
> > 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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>Jared Still
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