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From: June Mullins (junemullins, earthlink dot net)
Date: 2002.03.17 - 16.44 MST


I'd like to sit in at least part of the time. I have a lunch date Wed or 
Thurs, and also am
going to visit a sick friend that afternoon, so  I'll be unavailable then.

I think Jay's quiz could be a little easier.

                  June

Perry and Lorae Merritt wrote:

> I'm planning on doing mass interviews next week like Wed-Thurs. Anyone want
> to sit in on any of it? The interviews will be like 1/2 hour max per person.
> The idea is to get a quick feel for the person before spending a long timne
> interviewing them.
> 
> I've already screened the resumes and sent out email questions to the ones I
> like. I'll try to narrow the mass interviews down some, but right now I have
> 27.
> 
> P
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Miller" <jnmiller, cryptofreak dot org>
> To: <antera, enigma dot cryptofreak.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 7:45 PM
> Subject: Jay's Linux quiz!
> 
> 
>> Hi guys - when it came to interviewing time, I wanted to have a little
>> quiz ready to hand to applicants to test their Unix/Linux knowledge..
>> I'm hoping you guys will beta test this sucker.. give it a shot and
>> lemme know what you think, if you have time.  Thanks!
>> 
>> ***
>> 
>> Linux Quiz
>> This quiz consists of five questions, each slightly harder than the
>> last.  The answers should all be command lines that anyone could enter
>> (choice of shell notwithstanding).  They may include piping and
>> redirection, but not a ';' in the shell context (ie. you shouldn't
>> need multiple inputs, loops, subshells, etc.).  If you aren't sure
>> exactly, try to get close - they're meant to get pretty tough.
>> 
>> 1. Q: Find help for the command write(2).
>> 
>>    $
>> 
>> 
>> 2. Q: Uncompress and untar the archive foo-4.2.tar.gz into the current
>> directory.  (Bonus: pretend tar(1)'s '-z' switch doesn't exist, as in
>> SunOS.)
>> 
>>    $
>> 
>> 
>> 3. Q: Send a hangup signal to the system's sendmail daemon.  (Bonus:
>> pretend killall(1) command doesn't exist, as in OpenBSD.)
>> 
>>    $
>> 
>> 
>> 4. Q: Search all directories beneath and including ~/src for C source
>> and header files containing the case insensitive text 'todo'.  Append
>> the filenames and matching text to ~/TODO.  (Bonus: append filenames
>> only.)
>> 
>>    $
>> 
>> 
>> 5. Q: Move all files in the /tmp directory with a .html extension to a
>> .php extension instead.
>> 
>>    $
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jay Miller
>> 
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