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A major part of the test includes fixing a system that has been broken. The system most likely will not boot, the network will not work in some way, the X-windows display may be broken and one or more of the applications like Apache will not work. You will be expected to fix most of these to pass.

I am working on a simple application Break It that will break the VMware Server I have supplied. DO NOT RUN THESE ON YOUR SYSTEM. They are guaranteed to mess things up. On another system these might not be recoverable.

I have no idea if any of these are like the break fix section of the RHCE test. What I do know is each of these are breaks I have had to fix some time during my life.

Don't read them. Just run them.

You might also try http://trouble-maker.sourceforge.net/

There are a work in progress, if they don't work (IE Break things)? Well... Then fix the broken break code and send it back to me.

Break Script 1

 /bin/sed 's/\/rc 3/\/rc 1/' /etc/inittab > /tmp/inittab
 cp /tmp/inittab /etc/inittab
 /bin/sed 's/\/rc 5/\/rc 1/' /etc/inittab
 cp /tmp/inittab /etc/inittab
 for x in /boot/vmlinuz* ; do mv $x $x.gz;done
 clear
 echo "Good Luck"
 init 6

Break Script 2

 mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
 mdadm --fail /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1
 clear
 echo "Good Luck"
 init 6

Break 3

 /sbin/service xfs stop >/dev/null
 /sbin/chkconfig xfs off
 echo "Please start Xwindows"

Break 4

 /bin/rm -rf /dev/sda1
 /bin/rm -rf /dev/hda1
 /bin/touch /dev/sda1
 /bin/touch /dev/hda1

Break 5

 /bin/echo >/etc/resolv.conf
 /bin/echo "Without rebooting, try to ping www.google.com

Break 6

 /bin/rm -rf /initrd
 /sbin/reboot

Break 7

 /bin/rm -rf /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img
 /sbin/reboot

Break 8

 /bin/echo > /etc/X11/XF86Config
 /bin/sed -e 's/id\:[0-9]\:/id\:5\:/' /etc/inittab >/tmp/inittab
 /bin/mv -f /tmp/inittab /etc/inittab
 /sbin/reboot

Break 9

 /bin/rm -rf /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`
 /bin/rm -rf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
 /sbin/reboot

Break 10

 /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=400 count=1 > /dev/null
 /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=400 count=1 > /dev/null
 /sbin/reboot

Break 11

 /bin/echo > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
 /sbin/chkconfig kudzu off
 /bin/rm -f /etc/modules.conf
 /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`
 /bin/echo "After reboot, give networking a try..."
 /bin/sleep 15
 /sbin/reboot

Break 12

 /bin/rm -f /lib/security/pam_stack.so
 /sbin/reboot

Break 13

 /bin/cp -f /usr/bin/yes /sbin/init
 /sbin/reboot

Break 14

 /sbin/mkswap /dev/hda1 > /dev/null
 /sbin/mkswap /dev/sda1 > /dev/null
 /sbin/swapon -a > /dev/null
 /bin/echo "Oops! /boot is toast, format and configure without reinstalling"
 /bin/sleep 20
 /sbin/reboot

Practice Breaks

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