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What legal gotchas should a sysadmin be familiar with?

What legal issues should you research as a sysadmin to avoid you, or your employer, being accused of negligence, or of violating privacy, etc? While laws vary from country to country and state to state, it could still be enlightening if you have an…
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What programmer things should every sysadmin know?

Inspired by this question, I ask the reverse: how much about programming do system administrators need to know? More specifically, what programming tools are useful for a sysadmin to have?
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How do you recognize a good system administrator?

In the company I'm working for, we need to get system administrators. However, we are a programming development company and it turns out that we have no idea how to tell a good system administrator from a bad one*. We just needed someone to set up…
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Best sysadmin WTF?

You sure witnessed it with your own eyes (or are going to) sooner or later: that dreadful project/system/situation where something got SO screwed up you just can't believe it actually went like it did. Mismanagement? Misbudgeting? Misunderstanding?…
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What are the Sysadmin-Related Blogs & Mailing Lists you monitor?

I know this is a gimme question, but I genuinely would like to add more sysadmin related feeds to my reader, so please list the contents of your feedreader.
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What have you done, as a system administrator, for ecology?

What do you think a good "green" system administrator should do? What have you done? What are you planning to do? Is there any "best pratise" about ecology?
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From developer to sysadmin vs. from sysadmin to developer

Did you start as a sysadmin and later turned a developer? Or viceversa? What prompted the change? Which career do you like more? What advantages have you found from the transition? Tell us your story :-)
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Dropbox alternative

I'm looking for something like Dropbox (or centraldesktop) that I can host locally. I would like users to be able to upload (bonus for multiple upload) and download files into a file structure. Dropbox is perfect except 1) it only allows one user…
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Agile sysadmin and devops - How to accomplish?

Nowadays, agile systems adminitration and devops are some of the most trending topics regarding systems administration and operations. Both these concepts are mainly focused on bridging the gap between operations/sysadmins and the projects…
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List of freely available system administrator books

On the lines of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books, I'm trying to create a wiki of system administrator books with open source licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. Feel free to pour in your…
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What is the most ethically or morally questionable sysadmin task you have been given?

In the recent past I was asked to set up a reporting facility for upper management so they can spy on what web sites users are visiting. This was done without any notice given to users. Unfortunately, I have a good friend with some rather unusual…
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IT Services: In House or Outsource?

For the purposes of a small business (less than 50 employees) is it generally advisable to hire someone full-time for IT Services or outsource to a separate company? Here are some details about the company in question: Health Services - Generally…
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What software is available to keep track of hundreds of servers?

What good software is available (free or not free) to help me keep track of information relating to hundreds of servers, their relationships to each other (parent/child, category, type), and information on connecting to them, as well as possibly…
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System Administrator interview questions and answers

Possible Duplicate: How to interview a sysadmin candidate? Hello all, a friend of mine is going to a sys admin interview tomorrow and needs some questions and answers for sys admin interview. can anyone point me to the right direction ? i need…
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Tool or script to detect moved or renamed files on Linux prior to a backup

Basically I am searching to see if there exists a tool or script that can detect moved or renamed files so that I can get a list of renamed/moved files and apply the same operation on the other end of the network to conserve on bandwidth. Basically…
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