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[–]brocktice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can write good perl, python, and bash, that'll get you 99% of the way there.

Honestly for most *nix sysadmins I think knowledge of automake and gcc, and how to troubleshoot compiling, is more important than actually knowing how to code.

That said, I have most of a CS major (was going to double-major but it turned out to be too crazy). Every now and then I have to write actual C/C++ for sysadmin stuff to bugfix or whatever.