The *average daily routine of a Linux Systems Administrator will be as follows.

1. Check the status of all servers. This is called a health check. A health check will check the status of the following: Cpu,Memory ,processes,services & diskspace of the servers. At the same time you will check on emails on important news from you co-workers and management. This includes checking /var/log/messages daily.

2. Performance monitoring of the cpu & swap memory

3. File system usage monitoring & extension

4. User credentials, logon, group and security maintenance

5. Troubleshooting like server crashes ,reboots, hardware problems

6. Network problems on the server.

7. Maintaining print queues or printers attached tothe server.

8. Look for any TSR's orTechnology Service Request and ARMS or Access Rights Management System requests to unix team. This will be done via a ticketing and asset management system such as Remedy. Usually they're p[pen calls or tickets for Troubleshooting (Trouble tickets), service requests, , and change requests.

9. General requests for extending the file system & creating new mount point user administration

10. If a major incident happens like server rebooted by itself any hardware component failed, you need to inform your co-workers or staff that are on the system

11. Check the backup report (scheduled by crontab and ctrl-m). Backup types can be by BCV/Snap/Tape/D2D. If any client backup fails, the backup has to be re-run if it's a hot backup. Otherwise, you have to inform the database or application team to re-run the backup

12. Perform and write scripts that are either one time or automated for statuses, patching and updating.

13. Check statuses for alerts and warnings

14. Daily check on server room

15, Work on technical manuals or on knowledge desk articles.

*Average: Because there will be emergency situations as server crashes, downtime due to downed servers or hard drive crashes, and emergency patches to counter day-zero security breaches and exploits.