That test was dodgy. I got the who question wrong because I went with
whoami. The file extension '.src' question was questionable (what
distro is this? Surely .tar.gz would be the correct answer) as were
some of the other questions interesting. I ended up with 70%

I mean the chgrp question and the shell script question was definitely
wrong. If a script needs root permission to run then chmodding it to
777 means it will definitely fail because it won't have write access
to /etc/, or root's environmental variables or security policies. This
is _why_ chmod 777 won't work over u+x, setting 777 is _F*****_
dangerous. A user could put dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 in the script
and wait for the root user to run it, or worse. Only an amateur would
do that. setting a file as 777 would still run under your own
permissions.

Then the chgrp question which is either bad language or just wrong. It
seems I wasn't the only person to get it wrong.

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=Test-on-Linux-Basics-1&section=stats#storytabs

Then the cat question was also interesting. If you were to type "man
cat" you be right to go for wrong answer. I'd advise people to go
through the answers and if "most" people got it wrong, then they are
probably right!

On Nov 10, 4:53 am, "Kari Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, try this one:
>
> http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci882525,00.html
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