On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:16:41AM -0700, Corey Quinn wrote: > On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Dean Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http" > Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to > telnet performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect sense in > retrospect, this is just one of those things I somehow missed. Thanks-- > and I'm glad I wasn't interviewing with you at the time! That's the nice thing about that question - you can only be pleasantly surprised by their answer (in most cases ;)) > Though to be fair, explicit port declaration works just fine and dandy! I love it when someone mentions nsswitch.conf in an interview. I've recently been providing a vagrant box with some broken bits and a short list of tasks to complete as a technical screener. Things that can easily be verified with a short script - I just want to know they can do basic tasks - we can discuss the how in the second round. "Set up two name based vhosts", "find out what keeps changing the permissions on X at 4am" for example. It's filtered out people that both can't do certain tasks (and are unable to google for answers) and raised some nice discussion points for the next round. Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net @unixdaemon http://www.puppetcookbook.com @puppetcookbook _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
