Hi, I'm looking for a tool that breaks a working system (in one or more ways) with the sole purpose to fix it again. The aim would be to use this tool for several debugging techniques sessions in our local LUG. When I was invited to speak at a local LUG I was wondering what was the best way to demonstrate some of the tools (and more importantly) the way to tackle a problem. And nothing would be better than not knowing what is wrong so attendants can follow my reasoning in trying to fix a problem. I heard from someone who followed the RHCE exams, that they use such a tool to test the knowledge and it would be nice to have something like that in Open Source, if it does not already exist. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
Dag Wieers wrote:> I heard from someone who followed the RHCE exams, that they use such a > tool to test the knowledge and it would be nice to have something like > that in Open Source, if it does not already exist.I am an RHCE, the exam was not structured in a way that needed such a tool AFAICT. I think the tool you need is kickstart followed by one of a bunch of bash scripts performing evil actions. A great example was on fedora-list a couple of days ago, somebody selected NIS auth but there was no server, everything reported "root? que?" -Andy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4492 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060512/c2e93f77/attachment-0002.bin>
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Andy Green wrote:> Dag Wieers wrote: > > > I heard from someone who followed the RHCE exams, that they use such a tool > > to test the knowledge and it would be nice to have something like that in > > Open Source, if it does not already exist. > > I am an RHCE, the exam was not structured in a way that needed such a tool > AFAICT. > > I think the tool you need is kickstart followed by one of a bunch of bash > scripts performing evil actions. A great example was on fedora-list a couple > of days ago, somebody selected NIS auth but there was no server, everything > reported "root? que?"Hehe, nice one :) Yes, the tool I have in mind would be used on freshly installed test systems, and kickstart would be the most appropriate way to set one up. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]