Hi Simone, I agree with you that ‘getting the job done’ is more important then demonstrating (extensive) knowledge about a particular editor. For LPIC-2 vi knowledge could be more important for the well known reasons such as that vi is the only editor that’s available etc. during recovery processes etc.
Some distributions use vi(m) when commands like crontab, vimudo etc are entered, others use nano as a default for these commands. I believe that knowing about the EDITOR environment variable is more important. It demonstrates that you have a choice to use your favorite editor. Maybe worth a question? Regards, Marco > Op 29 jul. 2019, om 19:16 heeft Simone Piccardi <[email protected]> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi, > > I'm currently revising LPIC-1 topics for coverage in my in my text on system > administration and I found the distribution of weights between these two > topics (103.2 and 103.8) unbalanced in favour of the latter. I think that > this is not consistent with the purpose of the exam, which should be to > assess the skills of a junior sysadmin. > > I don't see how having a knowledge of vi more advanced to what is needed to > do simple modification to a file has more coverage in system administration > than be capable to use command to process text stream (there are just 2 > question to cover cut, tr, sort, split, uniq, wc). > > I'm certainly biased not beeing an affectionate vi user, but I do not see why > 3 question on how to use a specific editor. LPI is a Linux exam, and you must > be able to do sysadmin work with any kind of editor not just with vi. Beeing > capable to change the default editor is enough in my opinion. > > So apart its diffusion that can justify a single question on how to do simple > operation when nothing else is available (but still I do not find such a > system in years, and nano is installed by default in the most common > distributions), I do not see why a sysadmin should be capable "Navigate a > document using vi" when there is less or why beeing proficient in vi should > be more important that knowing how to use text filters. > > So I suggest to reduce the weight of 103.8 to 1 or at least 2, giving more > coverage to topics of 103.2 (promoting at least to 3) that are far more > important in sysadmin work. > > Simone > -- > Simone Piccardi Truelite Srl > [email protected] (email/jabber) Via Monferrato, 6 > Tel. +39-347-1032433 50142 Firenze > http://www.truelite.it Tel. +39-055-7879597 > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
