Correction: MRTG-2 Is Still Supported!

In the February ;login: there was a review of my LISA '98 MRTG talk. The article says that I am ending support for MRTG due to time constraints. This is not the case.

What I said in the talk was that I wanted to encourage people to migrate to rrdtool/cricket/mrtg-3 once these programs become stable. I am not actively continuing to develop mrtg-2 because I invest what time I have in mrtg-3/rrdtool.

But, as you can see from the mrtg-2 releases published in the last few weeks, I am still maintaining mrtg-2, although I am not adding new features but only integrating patches and removing bugs.

Cheers,

Tobi

Tobias Oetiker
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Correction: Solaris Certification Is Exam-Based

The column "Taming the Certification Beast" [October 1998 ;login:] made the statement that Solaris certification "relies on course attendance rather than testing." This is inaccurate. The exams are based closely on Sun Educational Services course material, but the certification itself is based 100% on exam performance. There is no requirement whatsoever that a candidate for certification ever have attended a Sun course, and indeed there are a lot of Sun-certified sysadmins (and network admins) out there who did it all on their own.

I am not affiliated with Sun Microsystems in any way.

From the catapult of J.D. Baldwin

J.D. Baldwin
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