On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Dan York said:
DY>Chuck, Kara, & co...
DY>
DY>> It's my opinion that the Level III exams are intended to provide a certification
DY>> avenue for high level Linux folk who want to specialize. For this reason the
DY>> rubber meets the road in *THIS* level for the enterprise level services you've
DY>> mentioned above. We are going to need to pound NFS/NIS, Samba, DNS, IMAP, DHCP,
DY>> SMTP, and I suggest that we add OpenLDAP into the mix. It's being included with
DY>> many of the distro's now and Novell is kicking their contributions out under OSS
DY>> licenses of some type. It may seem like an altogether specialized area but I
DY>> think that we should at least examine the issue to see where it leads.
DY>
DY>I'm not sure... yes, we need to hit the topics hard, especially in my mind DHCP
DY>and
DY>NFS, but we've always talked that there could be Level 3 exams on mail servers
DY>(SMTP, IMAP) and also Windows integration (advanced Samba). There could also
DY>be one on directory services that could include OpenLDAP and you could make the
DY>case that NIS (and NIS+) could fall into that category as well.
DY>
DY>My only concern is that if we include the advanced discussion of those topics
DY>here at Level 2, how much will we take away from what could be in a Level 3?
I think this is a coverage issue, not one of depth. Level 3 should be a depth
thing but we're going to have to start covering stuff here because a Level 2
hero is gonna have to to have a broad level of expertise and experience!
DY>> >Topic 5: Security
DY><snip>
DY>
DY>> I am going to bring it up now... what do folks think about testing xinetd? It is
DY>> much more configurable than wrappers and provides a higher level of security
DY>> when properly implemented!
DY>
DY>But is xinetd standard will all the major distros?
I don't know (and we need to answer this question) but at some point as we deal
with certifying "Advanced" Linux sys-admins we're going to have to start dealing
with *what is* in the world of Linux instead of what the distros think *is*.
DY>> >Topic 6: Other Hardware
DY><snip>
DY>
DY>> Perhaps we may want to get into some RAID here... we *are* talking about
DY>> advanced hardware devices here! We should also discuss software RAID as the
DY>> raid1 implementation in the 0.90 raidtools is very nice and quite stable!
DY>
DY>Yes but is it standard across most distros?
With the advent of 2.4/5 it most likely will be... I don't want to be a
soothsayer here but I follow the kernel list pretty closely and Linus/Alan
et. al. have caught a lot of heat over not including them to this point... I
cannot see how they're going to avoid it! So... if it's in the kernel then it
doesn't matter what the distros do 'cause it's there and it's supposed to be
there!
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