Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI BSD Associate

2018-05-27 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Jeroen Baten wrote: > I respect the bsd community greatly. > But I do see the clash with the "Linux professional institute" name. The BSD people have presumably thought that through. If they can live with it then we surely can too. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxca

Re: [lpi-examdev] blockchain and non-profit governance

2018-01-02 Thread Anselm Lingnau
turns out that the people in charge of Ethereum don't like it and/or stand to lose money (see “The DAO”) should give one cause for concern. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Mat

Re: [lpi-examdev] blockchain and non-profit governance

2018-01-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
ople to know about it in LPIC-1.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software ___ lpi-examdev mail

Re: [lpi-examdev] Is it time to move lpi-examdev to a forum?

2018-01-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
eel a compelling need to move this list to something else. “Never touch a running system.” Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Softw

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-09 Thread Anselm Lingnau
lot – but it is (a) way too baroque to teach in anything approaching its entirety and (b) practically self-explanatory for the simple use cases that 80% of NM installations need to deal with.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Li

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
n fact do things that are otherwise hard, inelegant, or impossible to do with the shell and other more basic utilities. In particular, the bar to understanding awk, for simple use cases, is a lot lower than for Perl, Python, or (heaven forbid!) Ruby. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.or

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-18 Thread Anselm Lingnau
thing. I suppose that if you're running with Red Hat people, XFS will be more important than btrfs and vice-versa. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Trai

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-16 Thread Anselm Lingnau
neat features alluded to above may make vim a great day-to- day editor but it is not the LPI-101 exam's job to proselytise for vim as a great day-to-day editor. That choice can safely be left with individual users. The exam is more about vi (not vim) as a necessary evil. Anselm -- An

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
per. This makes sense whether or not the exam contains actual questions on vi, but not having questions on vi in the first place enables an instructor to pick the editor that is best suited to the requirements of their class (which might well end up being vi but then again might not). Anselm -- Anselm L

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
er-room entrance pass. So we're back to eating earthworms as a hazing ritual? Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software __

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
ewhere in the exam where they are needed much more urgently, and it won't be such a big thing if people decide to treat vi lightly or skip it altogether in favour of more reasonable alternatives. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmateriali

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
g than vi. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
han vi but there apparently needs to be some kind of disgusting tradition to separate the men from the boys, like you can't be an Army ranger if you haven't marched thirty miles per day for a week with nothing to eat but earthworms that you've caught yourself. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DTE: Icinga 2 vs. Prometheus

2017-07-09 Thread Anselm Lingnau
ing approaches which are not that far apart from each other as far as their popularity is concerned. You pretty much need to pick one if you don't want to get bogged down in minutia that don't advance your goal of figuring out whether a candidate is familiar with the general concept of whateve

Re: [lpi-examdev] lpi-examdev Digest, Vol 105, Issue 2

2017-03-09 Thread Anselm Lingnau
two, but our classes, especially the more advanced classes, seldom if ever were that big. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Sou

Re: [lpi-examdev] dealing with the dearth of LPIC training materials

2017-03-09 Thread Anselm Lingnau
me. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · ans...@tuxcademy.org · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org h

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Anselm Lingnau
important ones and absolutely must be on the exam while the others can get lost. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau … Linup Front GmbH (MAX21) … Linux- & Open-Source-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-0, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Robert-Koch-Str. 9, 64331 Weiterstadt Post:

Re: [lpi-examdev] Nagios question

2015-09-22 Thread Anselm Lingnau
n my day, never been sued, and don't expect to be. Having said that, other people have already mentioned that we can simply replace “Nagios” with “Icinga” and be done with the problem, so that's probably the best approach. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau … Linup Front GmbH (MAX21) … Linux- & Open-

Re: [lpi-examdev] Drop LILO for future LPIC-2 update

2015-09-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
GPT (and bits from the {UEFI, BIOS} × {MBR, GPT} Cartesian product; great fun), and I'm pretty sure there will be ramifications on LPIC-2, too. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau … Linup Front GmbH (MAX21) … Linux- & Open-Source-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-0, Fax -

Re: [lpi-examdev] Bash internal command type in 104.7 topic?

2015-07-30 Thread Anselm Lingnau
spend a week here bikeshedding this if we have nothing better to do but I don't think it'll make a big difference in the end. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup

Re: [lpi-examdev] Adding brltty to 106.3 (Accessibility)

2015-06-25 Thread Anselm Lingnau
that they exist«, I don't think having to know that yet another tool exists and roughly what it does would overtax candidates. It's not as if we were asking them to be able to install and configure the thing. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen

Re: [lpi-examdev] 104.2 Maintain the integrity of filesystems and XFS Tools

2015-04-09 Thread Anselm Lingnau
never go thirsty ;^) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
happen until after 2.30pm). If we didn't have the historic data in the timezone database, if the Spanish did decide to make the change then suddenly all pre-change timestamps on their Linux file systems would be one hour off. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
accurately. Also, there's the “stockbroker's loop”: for zone in America/New_York Europe/London Asia/Tokyo do TZ=$zone xclock -title ${zone##*/} -update 1 done Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Alessandro Selli wrote: Nice example. Shouldn't xclock be run in the background though? :-) Of course. My bad. (I actually tried this before posting it but then forgot to add the ampersand to the example.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
for good. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
. If that doesn't seem to work, check whether the offending application has some non-standard way of specifying a time zone, and use that instead. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-102 suggests deprecated tzconfig command

2015-04-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
, is perfectly happy to obey a TZ-set non-default time zone for scheduling jobs. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-2 - 212.2 Pure-FTP important options

2015-03-08 Thread Anselm Lingnau
“Securing FTP Servers” – it should be its own topic. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt

Re: [lpi-examdev] Correction needed on LPIC1SummaryVersion3To4 site page

2015-03-03 Thread Anselm Lingnau
G. Matthew Rice m...@starnix.com wrote: You could mention the difference with 'ls -d' on symlinked directories As a matter of fact the most up-to-date version of our “Introduction to Linux” training manual does exactly that ;^) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open

Re: [lpi-examdev] lpi-examdev Digest, Vol 85, Issue 12

2015-02-13 Thread Anselm Lingnau
and not that of my employer. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL in LPIC 1

2015-02-11 Thread Anselm Lingnau
, and it is fairly well-defined and limited as LPI exam topics go. (Note that the LPI objectives do not require knowledge of the DDL.) I don't have a problem with this being on the exam. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL in LPIC 1

2015-02-11 Thread Anselm Lingnau
was told at the time. Maybe Matt can shed more light on the actual rationale of adding SQL to LPIC-1. After all, he was there and I wasn't ;^). The way LPI figures out exam objectives does suggest that the issue must have come up during the JTA. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux

Re: [lpi-examdev] Suggestion for 105.3 (Exam 101) mysqldump

2015-02-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
and not that of my employer. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer

Re: [lpi-examdev] Suggestion for 105.3 (Exam 101) mysqldump

2015-02-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
servers are bad (I personally prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL) but as far as I'm concerned their specifics aren't exactly standard fare for junior system administrators. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067

[lpi-examdev] Fwd: Re: Suggestion for 105.3 (Exam 101) mysqldump

2015-02-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
to find that. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer

Re: [lpi-examdev] 105.2 Suggestion - remove suid-rights of scripts

2015-02-05 Thread Anselm Lingnau
it (and why) may in fact be useful. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt

Re: [lpi-examdev] Suggestions for 202 exams (adds)

2014-07-31 Thread Anselm Lingnau
that using nginx as the thin point of the wedge in order to shoehorn in everybody's own personal favourite web server/proxy/… may not be that great an idea.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103

Re: [lpi-examdev] Suggestions for 202 exams (remove)

2014-07-29 Thread Anselm Lingnau
will probably become more important in the future and should eventually find a place somewhere in the LPI universe, but whether LPI-202 is that place is probably doubtful. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151

Re: [lpi-examdev] Status of LPIC-1, LPIC-304 and Linux Essentials Objectives

2014-07-16 Thread Anselm Lingnau
assignes IPv4 blocks as classes and the way in ​-arpa​ .add​ ​r zones work, but this is knowledge of sysadmin level, not of LPIC-1 (plain user) level. Also, RFC 2317. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151

Re: [lpi-examdev] Status of LPIC-1, LPIC-304 and Linux Essentials Objectives

2014-07-16 Thread Anselm Lingnau
are not part of the LPIC-2 exam beyond »knowing what it does«) to people who are interested in actually running a real-life DNS server as opposed to just passing LPIC-2; the DNS content in our LPIC-2 training materials is a subset of that of the manual for that class. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau

Re: [lpi-examdev] Status of LPIC-1, LPIC-304 and Linux Essentials Objectives

2014-07-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
considerably faster, and these are probably where we should be concentrating our efforts when figuring out how to update the exams. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de

Re: [lpi-examdev] awk

2014-07-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
columns in a file using »cut«? This is not to say that I think awk should necessarily be part of the LPIC-1 exam; I'd just like to mention that we *do* teach people the basics of awk in order to prepare them for the real world out there. YMMV. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH

Re: [lpi-examdev] Status of 101+102 update ?

2014-06-23 Thread Anselm Lingnau
for changes tacked on to the end of the page. Anselm (not speaking for LPI or my employer) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt

Re: [lpi-examdev] Time to Update Objectives for LPIC-1 and LPIC-304

2014-01-16 Thread Anselm Lingnau
get rid of Upstart again in the next revision, which would be a major win. What about doing LPI-304 first? And doesn't LPI-303 need to be reviewed? That has been around for a while. What about LPI-305? Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1: logrotate in 108.2

2014-01-08 Thread Anselm Lingnau
around to putting journald on the exam. There will be another scheduled revision of the LPIC-1 exams in two years or so and then we can see what is important at that time. »Teaching to the exam« is seldom a good idea. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 v4?

2013-07-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
into LPIC-2). Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-2v4 - 205.3 and /etc/HOSTNAME

2013-07-17 Thread Anselm Lingnau
for that to happen because all these funny little trivia will finally go away. It will make our lives that much more straightforward. See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-new-configuration-files.html . Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen

Re: [lpi-examdev] Virtualization topics in LPIC

2013-06-21 Thread Anselm Lingnau
to be added to LPIC-1 or LPIC-2 should also come up with a well-argued proposal of what other topic (or topics) to remove in order to make room. This is not as much of an issue in LPIC-3, where we can always make another exam ;^) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open

Re: [lpi-examdev] [lpi-discuss] [LPI-News] LPI revises objectives for LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 Linux certification programs

2013-06-20 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Disclaimer: This is my own personal opinion, not that of my employer. I'm not getting paid enough to have opinions on my employer's behalf. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-2 version 4 objectives update

2013-06-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
) where. In particular, the objective does NOT require intimate familiarity with the content of /etc/lilo.conf. Teaching the bullet points above in a classroom should take about 10 minutes, max. What's the big deal? Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-2 version 4 objectives update

2013-06-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
the same sort of stuff that GRUB's configuration file contains, without knowing any of the actual lilo.conf parameters. Knowing details of lilo.conf parameters IMHO goes beyond »awareness«. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI-300 version 1 objectives

2013-06-07 Thread Anselm Lingnau
much presumes OpenLDAP would argue for listing OpenLDAP first – but then again the list of objectives should not be confused with a guideline on how to organise a class. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151

Re: [lpi-examdev] Comments on 206.2 Backup operations

2013-06-06 Thread Anselm Lingnau
used to make certain kinds of backups, and does not reiterate knowledge of how cpio is actually used in detail. I don't think cpio should be made to disappear outright from a directive that stipulates »system tools«. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz

Re: [lpi-examdev] Postfix and sendmail in LPI202 v4

2013-05-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
mainstream ones that still come with Sendmail as the default MTA. I don't know why that is the case. Anselm Disclaimer: These are my own personal opinions and not my employer's or LPI's. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling

[lpi-examdev] Comments on LPIC-2 objectives version 4 (LONG)

2013-05-06 Thread Anselm Lingnau
the material into a more orderly arrangement and make life easier for courseware authors, curriculum planners, and instructors. Candidates probably won't mind, either. Anselm Disclaimer: For once I get to speak for Linup Front GmbH as the head of its courseware development division. Yay! -- Anselm

Re: [lpi-examdev] D-BUS / HALD / automatic mounting in the GUI

2013-04-17 Thread Anselm Lingnau
that, for building up the real-world experience that we want successful LPIC candidates to prove they have. Anselm Disclaimer: My employer does not pay me enough to have opinions on his behalf so any opinions in the above are strictly my own. -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source

Re: [lpi-examdev] D-BUS / HALD / automatic mounting in the GUI

2013-04-16 Thread Anselm Lingnau
to ask about, as HAL is on its way out and udisks/udisks2 isn't used everywhere yet. This is basically LILO vs. GRUB vs. GRUB2 all over again. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299

Re: [lpi-examdev] Questions regarding proposed changes to LPIC2 3

2013-01-14 Thread Anselm Lingnau
.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel

Re: [lpi-examdev] User Interfaces and Desktops

2013-01-13 Thread Anselm Lingnau
techno-geek distributions like Fedora would be. It also turns out that these distributions, rather than Ubuntu or Fedora, are the ones that are most popular in the »professional« circles that LPI targets. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of either Linup Front GmbH or LPI.) -- Anselm

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI objectives in a straightforward parsable meaningful plain text format

2013-01-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
pay grade I don't get to have opinions on my employer's behalf.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz

Re: [lpi-examdev] Big changes to the LPIC-2 and 301/302 exams [Re: wiki: Future Change Considerations]

2012-09-14 Thread Anselm Lingnau
to requiring awareness that the others exist and why one might want to use one of them, but let's keep their configuration out of the exam completely. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax

Re: [lpi-examdev] alternative to Red Hat Certified Architect

2012-06-29 Thread Anselm Lingnau
to confuse you with a proper Ingenieur with an engineering diploma from an official university. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI Essentials and 101/102 objectives

2012-05-03 Thread Anselm Lingnau
for LinuxTag (i.e., week 21 or so). I'm translating it right now. You can find the German version as a free CC-licensed download at http://shop.linupfront.de/product/lxes/ (scroll to the bottom of that page for the download link). Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open

Re: [lpi-examdev] Topic 103 has inappropriate subtopic order

2012-02-28 Thread Anselm Lingnau
. (The same applies to the objectives themselves.) Feel free to teach the material in whatever order you think is best, no matter what the objectives say. Nobody will mind one way or the other. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer or LPI.) -- Anselm Lingnau

Re: [lpi-examdev] Topic 103 has inappropriate subtopic order

2012-02-28 Thread Anselm Lingnau
them. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver

Re: [lpi-examdev] Projects for LPIC-1 students

2011-11-02 Thread Anselm Lingnau
G. Matthew Rice wrote: I'm sure not going to compile anything to do with PCMCIA. :) Not if you can get your kids to do it for you, anyway. Considering this, the one single thing that makes me wish I had kids is VMware kernel modules. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux

[lpi-examdev] Package building in LPIC-2 (was: Projects for LPIC-1 students)

2011-11-01 Thread Anselm Lingnau
contents seems to suggest that if package building doesn't show up to an appreciable degree in the JTA, LPI has no business sticking it in just because we like the idea. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151

Re: [lpi-examdev] Some Ideas on Linux Essentials Objectives

2011-09-29 Thread Anselm Lingnau
in reasonable time, with a view on getting people interested enough to go on to LPIC-1 later. Lots of sidetracking into material that is not also in LPIC-1 is not productive from that point of view. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread Anselm Lingnau
that are character-building and do them good in the long run even if they can't see their point and hate them when they do need to learn them. This serves as an automatic excuse for shell commands, regular expressions, etc. Anselm (speaking for himself) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
opinion, as usual) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
«, presumably with a background in using non-Linux computers and applications. Which is not to say that the introductory certification might not be interesting for other people, too. Anselm (speaking for himself, as always) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen

Re: [lpi-examdev] Kerberos Authentication

2011-04-28 Thread Anselm Lingnau
is not really »lpi-examdev« material, and might more appropriately be discussed in some other forum. Anselm (speaking for himself, not Linup Front GmbH) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299

Re: [lpi-examdev] LILO

2011-02-11 Thread Anselm Lingnau
certainly will. Anselm (speaking strictly for himself, as usual) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt

[lpi-examdev] Objective 303.1, anyone? and other LPI-301 questions

2010-04-07 Thread Anselm Lingnau
their career). The objectives as they are now could mean essentially anything and nothing. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL knowledge for LPIC-1

2009-05-20 Thread Anselm Lingnau
introduction to SQL for LPIC-1 candidates. Feel free to look at this and send me comments. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [lpi-examdev] lpi-examdev Digest, Vol 26, Issue 14

2009-05-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
better indicator of what the LPIC exams should be based on. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany anselm.ling

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL knowledge for LPIC-1

2009-05-18 Thread Anselm Lingnau
, it is very useful to be able to access these files in SQL. Anyway, the SQL required for the exam is hardly rocket science. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen Linup Front GmbH, Postfach

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 201 - Topic 203.4 udev Device management

2009-04-02 Thread Anselm Lingnau
) to manage both flavours of device, which makes a lot of sense to me. As Jorge correctly remarks, there used to be a system called »hotplug« which was basically a precursor of udev. I don't recall a »coldplug« subsystem. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz

Re: [lpi-examdev] Topic 201.2 Compiling a kernel

2009-03-31 Thread Anselm Lingnau
as to the precise point where a distribution is major enough to be entitled to having some of *its* quirks added to the exams. I say don't go there. Anselm (This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen

[lpi-examdev] How much sed in 103.7?

2008-12-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
the introductory manual with the sed chapter. I'd also rather avoid splitting the sed content in two. What to do?) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH

[lpi-examdev] LPI objective 103.1: Shell command history

2008-12-05 Thread Anselm Lingnau
»bar« replaced by »baz«. And just for the record, I don't use such things myself as my poor brain cannot handle them as a matter of course.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- Netz-Schulungen [EMAIL PROTECTED], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de