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From: dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Administering a News system part time
Message-ID: <273@arnold.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 00:09:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: arnold.273
Posted: Tue Oct 20 00:09:02 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 01:28:23 EDT
Organization: Mission Viejo, Ca
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Keywords: administrate questions hours

Our company is dragging an under used CT Megaframe out of the closest, and
going to run it as a dedicated news system :-)

Since I am the one who suggested this, I have been appointed the job of
administrating it.  Also, I have been asked by upper management to
prepare a proposal detailing how much time each week I plan to spend on
this (I am a software engineer with projects and deadlines).  I am not sure
how much time WILL be required, so I thought I could pose this question to
the experienced.

Like I said, the hardware will be a Convergent Technologies Megaframe running
CTIX, with about 80meg of disk space (probably 20-40meg free), and a 1200 baud
modem, a telebit trailblazer looks good for the future.  There are about 100
employee's who will be potential News readers/posters, most of them
programmers.

I recognize the following duties:

1.	Create shell accounts as needed.
2.	Provide Netnews user documentation as needed.
3.	Provide technical support (Hey Dave, how do I send mail to somebody
	on DEC's Easynet?).
4.	Monitor nightly newsfeeds, make sure everything ran smoothly, enough
	disk space, etc.
5.	Fix problems with network/terminal servers to News system.
6.	Review UUNET bill.

That's about all I can think of.  I have no idea how much time all of this
is going to take, but I'll take a stab at about 2 hours a day?

I would appreciate hearing from you old-timer USENET adminstator's, the
full-timer's and the part-timer's, and hear your experiences/job demands.

Thank you in advance.

Dave Arnold

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