[ale] LPI Certification Study Group

[JD]

Very early on in the text, I came across a reference to the /etc/host.conf file.
I thought it was a typo since I've been administrating Linux/UNIX systems for
20+ yrs and never used it.  Seems it exists from before the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file was created.  Talk about out-of-date - wasting time on this sort of stuff
seems crazy to me.  Which conf file has precedence?

Has anyone use the /etc/host.conf in the real world ...uh ever (since 1993)?

Then they spend way too much time on lilo. These days (and for the last 5 yrs)
any mention of lilo beyond - "the old way was lilo" is completely inappropriate,
IMHO.  Perhaps people still run systems from 2002?  Should certification tests
side-track students with that knowledge still? I dunno.


On 12/17/2013 01:23 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> I have LPIC-1 and LPIC-2, the O'Reilly Book is about the best out there.  It doesn't matter that it is dated, the test is WAY dated.  They are still asking about things that are way obsolete....  honestly, I don't think they have changed their question pool in a decade.
> Another thing to keep in mind - while they claim to be distro independent, you had better know Debian.  It is HEAVILY biased toward the Debuntu way of doing things.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of JD [jdp at algoloma.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:17 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] LPI Certification Study Group
> 
> At the Dec ALE meeting, interest in a group to learn Linux was shown.
> I'd like to help someone organize that effort.
> 
> Online searching found guides from 2008, 2005 and 2003, so those seem a little
> dated.
> 
> Wikibooks has https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification.
> 
> Perhaps the O'Reilly book, _LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell_, 3rd Addition
> is a reasonable text for this effort. It is from 2010, so still a little dated.
> 
> Anyway, some ideas to get organized, create artifacts, and have discussion
> groups would be great!
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