resent for Len. It looked plaintext to me. hopefully, this one is... Regards, --matt
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:47 AM, G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Anselm Lingnau > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alessandro Selli wrote (quoting Mehdi Amiri): >>> know about not just Android, Debian and CentOS, but also about RedHat, >>> Fedora, SuSE/Novell, Ubuntu, Slackware and Mandriva, and possibly a few >>> more. >> >> I think this gets silly very quickly. What do you mean »know about« – must > > My problem is that the choice of 'important' distros is also varied > around the planet. > > I haven't met a Mandriva user in a couple of years in my neighbourhood. > > >>> > Topic: 1.2.2 >>> > The candidates should be also be aware of distributions software support >>> > model & the meaning of Long Term Support (LTS) in some Enterprise >>> > distribution. >> >> Do we run a Linux exam or a marketing exam? > > I dunno. Some of the wording on the current objectives are kinda markety... > :) > > >>> > Topic 1.2.5 >>> A basic use of netstat is both easy and a useful tool to detect, for >>> instance, currently established TCP/IP connections. Even a beginner, IMO, >>> should be able to do netstat | grep ftp to see if there are currently open >>> FTP sockets. >> >> I'm not happy with this objective at all. It drags in a very large amount of >> theory for something that new Linux users basically don't need to know. The >> <snip> >> Having said that, I can see a certain minimal amount of sense in having >> »ping«, but routing? ifconfig? netstat? resolv.conf (which is incidentally >> misspelled in the wiki)? Give me a break. This is supposed to be an >> *introductory* exam. > > I have to agree here. For most installations, the networking just > works once you plug in a cable or look for a wireless network. > > I'd prefer to see the 'Networking Your Computer' changed to 'Your > Computer on the Network' or something. ping, traceroute/path, > host/dig/nslookup (maybe still keep resolv.conf). And a diagram of an > IP packet breakdown... > > Any objections to that? > > (NB: I tried to find out where resolv.conf turned into resolve.conf in > the edits...they aren't in my original text drafts...we'll have to > leave it as a mystery...thanks for pointing it out, Anselm) > > >> Also, do note that nslookup has been officially deprecated for a very long >> time now. > > But also still kicking on Windows...I don't think it'll ever disappear > at this rate. > > PS - everyone is using this: > > http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LinuxEssentials > > as reference, correct? > > Regards, > -- > G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20 > -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
