Re: *BSD training vendors

[Joel Mc Graw <jmcgraw@databill.com>]

At 01:53 PM 9/15/00 -0400, John Todd wrote:

>My "day job" uses *BSD variants in production (400 or more machines) and 
>therefore we have some people here who are not hardcore developers but who 
>would like to get to know *BSD systems administration, fundamentals, and 
>resource tuning a bit better.   Our NOC, applications developers, and 
>others need to know their way around the system but don't necessarily need 
>a training course on kernel optimization (no, we're not sending them all 
>to BSDCON this year. :)  Our hardcore developers don't have the time to do 
>such teaching, and usually (no offense intended) don't teach particularly 
>well, anyway.
>
>If anyone knows of any vendors who have _good_ courses (not "BSD for 
>Dummies", please) and who are willing to send trainers afield (DC Metro 
>area) then please drop me a URL.  I'll forward to our training coordinator.
>
>I'm looking for specifically BSD training, not generalized UNIX 
>training.  I.E.: The training material should all have been written from 
>scratch using "ps -aux" instead of "ps -ef" as the example. Granted, many 
>things are similar, but they're not the same (as most of you on this list 
>are well aware.)
>
>I've RTFM'ed, and used every search engine I can think of to try to find 
>vendors with these specific requirements; no luck.  I think this is a 
>startlingly small number of training vendors I'm hunting after, which 
>worries me...

At the risk of offending some, I'd really be surprised if BSDi couldn't 
muster up some trainers for something like this.  You could also try 
talking to Witt at Daemonnews Mall/Cylogistics.

Joel Mc Graw
DataBill, LLC

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