Detailed Objective

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Description:
Candidates should be able to identify common local system and user environment configuration issues and common repair techniques.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Core system variables
  • init configuration files
  • init start process
  • cron configuration files
  • Login process
  • User-password storage files
  • Determine user group associations
  • SHELL configuration files of bash and csh
  • Analysing which processes or daemons are running

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • /etc/inittab
  • /etc/rc.local
  • /etc/rc.boot
  • /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
  • The default shell configuration file(s) in /etc/
  • /etc/login.defs
  • /etc/syslog.conf
  • /etc/passwd
  • /etc/shadow
  • /etc/group
  • /sbin/init
  • /usr/sbin/cron
  • /usr/bin/crontab