[CLUE-Cert] Error in the material and one of the questions

Ben Roe ben at tde.com
Sun Mar 25 18:49:30 MST 2001


Sean,
You're right:  I have RH 7.0 installed, and it's in /proc/sys/fs.
Not that common sense has any bearing on these things, but I would
think it fits better in fs...  :-)

Thanks for pointing that out.

Peace,
ben

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> One of the practice questions for chapter 1looks like it has
> an error: #13. It refers to /proc/sys/kernel/file-max, and
> I don't have that in either RH v6.1 or Debian (v?)...does anyone
> else see file-max in that dir? I instead see it in:
> /proc/sys/fs/. I would think that this would not be something
> distro-related, in any case.
> 
> On page 34, they talk about this, and again, I only have the
> files (file-max and inode-max) in /proc/sys/fs...and the HOWTO
> they refer to doesn't seem to apply directly to the topic at hand.
> 
> When I searched groups.google.com for /proc and file-max,
> all hits I looked at mention only /proc/sys/fs...maybe this
> is just an oversight on the author's part.
> 
> I see they have an errata
> page set up for the books. Unfortunately, it's not very
> well organized and many of the submissions are spelling
> and grammar-related:
> 
> http://www.linuxcertification.com/resources/errata/
> 
> If we had collected and submitted all the ones we saw in the
> installation and config book, the list here would probably be twice
> as long!
> 
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> know you had in a way you don't understand.
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