LPI BSD Specialist case studies
LPI BSD Specialist · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Linux Professional Institute BSD Specialist is a vendor-neutral certification for administrators who work with FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. LPI describes the certification holder as a BSD system administrator with a solid understanding of BSD architecture and the ability to manage user accounts and groups, processes, file systems, installed software and client networking configuration, using standard BSD and Unix tools on the command line. The LPI BSD Specialist case studies are 5 cases and about 3,141 words.
1FreeBSD Port Build with a Non-Default LDAP Option
A small company runs a FreeBSD 14.1 application server that hosts an internal Python service. The service must be built with a non-default port option that enables a proprietary LDAP plugin, and the binary package from the official repository is compiled without it.
668 words, about 3 min2Replacing a Failing Disk in a Full RAIDZ1 ZFS Pool
A FreeBSD 14.0 file server exports a ZFS pool named tank built from four 4 TB SATA disks in a single raidz1 vdev. The boot disk is a separate SSD.
698 words, about 3 min3Custom rc.d Service Starts Manually but Not at Boot
A FreeBSD 13.2 backup server runs a locally written daemon, /usr/local/sbin/backupd, with an rc script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/backupd. The script is mode 0555 and starts correctly when the administrator runs service backupd start .
594 words, about 3 min4FreeBSD Router Clients Cannot Reach the Internet
A FreeBSD 14.0 box acts as the border router for a small office. em0 gets a public address by DHCP from the ISP; em1 is 192.168.50.1/24 and runs dhcpd for clients.
619 words, about 3 min5/var Is Full but du Shows Much Less Space
A FreeBSD 14.1 web server reports that /var is 98% full. df -h /var shows 19 GB used of 20 GB, but du -x -h /var sort -h accounts for only about 9 GB.
562 words, about 3 min