agreed, i realize some of the "pathing" i used in the prelim obj's were
distro specific. I guess i was looking for a consensus on
what/where/which files to make them remember, regardless of the distro.
Michael
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"David A. Bandel" wrote:
>
> Francois Jeanmougin wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:24:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Obj: Basic network configuration.
> > > The candidate should be able to: configure a network device to be
> > > able to connect to a local network, connect to a wide-area network,
> > > communicate between various subnets within a single network, and
> > > configure logging.
> > > Includes tools and files such as:
> > > * /sbin/route
> > > * /sbin/ifconfig
> > > * /sbin/arp
> > > * /usr/sbin/arpwatch
> > > * /etc/sysconfig/network
> > > * /etc/sysconfig/static-routes
> > > * /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> >
> > /etc/sysconfig is distribution specific (not present on my
> > Debian nor in FHS2.2, nor in LSB).
>
> /etc/sysconfig/ is specific to RH-type distros (RH, Caldera, Mandrake,
> and IIRC, SuSE). Debian has this information in various files and
> subdirs in /etc. But it's prevalent enough (IMHO).
>
> Which brings up a point. When I have a distro I'm looking at for the
> first time, I first look at /etc/inittab to see what it calls as bootup
> scripts.
>
> Then I take a look at the rc scripts it calls to see how the boot
> proceeds to completion looking at one or two of the
> /etc/[rc.d/]init.d/xxx scripts (or in the case of Slackware types,
> /etc/rc.d/rc.S, rc.K, rc.M, rc.inet, rc.inet2.
>
> Now, within 5 minutes or so, I know enough about how that system boots
> up to know about all the little hidey-holes the distro designers used to
> squirrel away eth0=$IP, GATEWAY=$IP, and how to make certain things
> run/not run at bootup (aside from the brute force remove the rc3/4/5.d
> link. I know how to make Debian (which is almost _always_ in runlevel
> 2) start xdm (/etc/X11/config) etc.
>
> At this level, these are the kinds of things I think we should start
> covering. These guys/gals have to be able to do this. Given a few
> lines from inittab, choose what will happen from the choices below.
> >From the given lines of this rc script, what will happen? Where are the
> variables read from? What script/action follows?
>
> I didn't get a reply on my question about if this was the final level
> before specialization exams or not (I remember changes being discussed
> at one point). Perhaps I'm shooting too high here?
>
> Ciao,
>
> David A. Bandel
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