[SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification

[Devin L. Ganger]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:38:58PM -0400, nick at snowman.net wrote:

> Ahh yes, however how many are familiar with what "Class C" actually means,
> rather than the common misconception that it means "/24" or 255 ips, or
> any number of other ways to say it? <grin>

Funny this should come up; we've been interviewing for a Sr. Unix admin at
the place I consult at, this last week, and I got to re-write the technical
portion of the test.

You'd be horrified at the number of people who fail this question:

  What is the default subnet mask for the 192.168.1.0/16 subnet?

My personal favorites, though are:

  Given an owner of root, a group owner of sysadmin, and permissions of
  644, who may run the shell script example.sh without making a separate
  copy of it?

and:

  On a stock, unmodified Solaris box, which user does patchadd read the
  patches as?

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done