Hi Ottavio, This is definitely an appropriate place for these comments. And thanks. As you can see, it's usually a pretty quiet list.
So, let me take this opportunity to plug the BSD advisory committee. We're doing a(n unofficial) member drive for it. If anyone's interested in a BSD-focused forum (aka, the BSDAC), let me know (offlist). Take care, --matt On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:29 PM Ottavio Caruso < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear lpi-examdev@ (and a couple of bbc recipients, to whom I apologise > if this email is not welcome), > > I hope you're all safe and well in these difficult times. > > I have taken the liberty of going through the current BSD Specialist > Objectives and cross-referencing all entries with the two last stable > releases of each of the operating systems involved (FreeBSD 11.3 and > 12.1: NetBSD 8.1 and 9.0; OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6). > > I have made a rudimentary list of all the issues that could be > improved. Some are serious issues (wrong syntax or missing commands) > that could confuse the exam candidate; some are minor issues that can > be reworded for better comprehension. > > I am sure I must have missed some items; I'm pretty confident about > the ones that follow because I have double-checked them with senior > members of the *BSD community on IRC and mailing lists. > > For the sake of simplicity, I'm listing the issues in the order they > are found in the Objectives, without making reference to the exact > position. I let you do a 'grep' and find where they belong. > > - /boot/loader.conf: > reported as "common", but only on FreeBSD. > > - adduser: > reported as common, but not on NetBSD. > > - passwd: > should reference both passwd(1) [the command] and passwd(5) [the > configuration files /etc/passwd, /etc/pwd.db, /etc/master.passwd and > /etc/spwd.db]. > > - /usr/share/skel/: > reported as common but only on FreeBSD. On NetBSD and OpenBSD, the > correct location is /etc/skel. > > -crontab: > is repeated twice and should make reference to crontab(1) and crontab(5). > > - /var/cron/allow and /var/cron/deny: > reported as common, but not on OpenBSD which uses /var/cron/cron.allow > and /var/cron/cron.deny instead. > > - "periodic system scripts": > the wording is confusing, as only FreeBSD has "periodic" files. Maybe > use "cron jobs" instead? > > - in the same section, the NetBSD and OpenBSD parts could be rewritten as: > > NetBSD: daily.conf(5) weekly.conf(5), monthly.conf(5) security.conf(5) > OpenBSD: daily(8) weekly(8) monthly (8) security (8) > > - dhclient, dhclient.conf and /var/db/dhclient.leases: > reported as common but no longer on NetBSD 9.0. dhclient has been > replaced by dhcpcd(8). The relevant files are now under > /var/db/dhcpcd/*. > > - nmap: > this command is not in the default installation of any of the > operating systems. Maybe mention that it has to be installed from > ports? > > - rtsol (and rtsold): > no longer on NetBSD since v. 8.0. Their functionality is now included > in dhcpcd(8). > > - cp: > is repeated twice for no apparent reason. > > Looking forward to your replies. > > -- > Ottavio Caruso > -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: 0x17CF9077 Executive Director, Linux Professional Institute
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