LPI Linux Certification/Troubleshooting Environment Configurations

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