"George R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But IMO, this effort for a BSD certification is aimed at sysadmins, > not developers.
So what you are saying is that because I'm a professional software developer, not sysadmin, my knowledge and experience with FreeBSD is of no interest to the bsdcert team? I started to fill out the survey, leaving question 1 blank, but gave up on page 4 or 5. First of all, the format is very awkward. The checkboxes should really be radio buttons. Second, some of the questions don't seem very well thought out. For instance: - question 12 is irrelevant; there is no run-time linker cache on ELF systems, only a search path. - question 27 is equally irrelevant: you should never set MANPATH with modern versions of man(1), and they will emit a warning if you do. - question 46 is meaningless: none of the BSDs currently support dynamically resizable filesystems. FreeBSD has an ill-maintained tool that lets you grow (but not shrink) cold UFS1 and UFS2 file systems. - question 51 is a duplicate of question 42 - questions 58, 59 and 60 are not very meaningful because there is no significant difference between the skills they address (unless question 59 includes setting up the NFS server). There are other questions where the answers will vary depending on which BSD you are using: - question 26: on FreeBSD 5 and newer, you will never need to create device nodes. An advanced admin will however need to know how to mount a devfs filesystem in a chroot or jail, and how to limit the devices it presents. - question 43: FreeBSD 4 and newer and DragonFly BSD do not have block devices. - question 62 is relevant only for FreeBSD 4 and newer and DragonFly BSD. For many of the tasks, the correct frequency rating is "only once, at install time"; but there is no indication of how often that is expected to happen, until you come to question 58 and realize you're supposed to figure that out on your own. Some respondents may feel that any BSD admin must start by learning the installation process, while others may feel that a novice admin would only perform routine maintenance on existing systems, and that only a junior or intermediate admin would actually install new systems. Perhaps you should consider this a beta test, and relaunch the survey after it's been fixed up a bit? DES -- Dag-Erling Sm�rgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
