Session and Assessment Log

2026-08-08 — Project initialized

Recorded the two-server RHEL 10/Proxmox infrastructure.
Established the cumulative curriculum and all objective ratings at ⬜ Not Started.
Created the fictional enterprise design without assuming that any planned object already exists.
Selected the initial practical diagnostic as the next action.
No VM configuration was changed.

Next action: learner completes assessments/00-initial-diagnostic.md on the primary system and submits commands plus verification evidence. Grade the evidence, update progress.md, then choose the normal or accelerated Module 1 path.

2026-08-09 — Initial diagnostic graded

Received a timed command transcript through Part D plus the attempted Part E transfer.
Fully met 9 task requirements, partially met 4, left 4 incomplete or unverified, and encountered an infrastructure block on 2 remote-transfer requirements.
Awarded independent ratings for redirection, text creation, file/directory operations, and hard/symbolic links.
Marked shell syntax, grep/regular expressions, archives/compression, permissions, and documentation use as learning areas.
Did not penalize the secondary transfer: SSH was reachable, but student does not exist on lab-cli-rhel-47.
Selected the normal Module 1 pace. Demonstrated strengths can be accelerated, while identified gaps receive deliberate practice.

Next action: complete the focused correction round in assessments/00-initial-diagnostic-result.md. Do not redo Part E yet. After grading those corrections, begin Module 1.

2026-08-09 — Initial diagnostic correction, submission 1

Demonstrated a successful remote login from the client machine to 10.11.11.46 as student; SSH advanced to independent.
Removed the unrequested SGID bit and set reports to 0750, which satisfies the stated owner/group/other mode requirement.
Correctly created archive/reports.tar.gz with gzip and archive/source.tar.bz2 with bzip2 through tar.
Learner identified uncertainty about directory traversal; retain permissions at learning until the semantics are understood and retested.
Archive rating remains learning because non-extracting member listings and unpack/uncompress behavior are not yet demonstrated.

Next action: finish exact report regeneration, line-based counting, both archive member listings, and reports/documentation.txt; submit concise verification. Part E remains deferred.

2026-08-09 — Initial diagnostic correction, submission 2

Replaced the malformed count report with an exact final-field selection and a line count; numeric result is correct.
Correctly listed both gzip and bzip2 tar archives without extracting them.
Advanced archive/compression and permissions to 🟦 Can Perform With Help; each needs a later unaided retest, and archives still need extraction practice.
Documentation lookup selected -h, which controls human-readable sizes rather than appending a directory indicator; task remains incomplete.
Production and offline outputs are correct, but their correction commands did not demonstrate exact field/end matching.
Replacing count.txt removed the originally required login-name line; it must be restored after the count.

Next action: submit exact-field regeneration commands for production/offline, a final two-line count report containing the count and actual login name, and the corrected documentation record. Then close the diagnostic and begin Module 1.

2026-08-09 — Initial diagnostic correction, submission 3

Restored count.txt to the required two-line final state: numeric count followed by student.
Located ls -p / --indicator-style=slash, which is a valid directory-specific indicator option.
The documentation file still needs to name man ls as the source.
Production was rebuilt with plain substring matching and append redirection; exact second-field matching and replace semantics remain unproven.
No corrected creation command was supplied for the offline report.

Next action: use the supplied full regex syntax to rebuild production/offline safely, add the documentation source, and show the three final files. These items will be rated as completed with help rather than independent.

2026-08-09 — Initial diagnostic closed

Verified correct final contents for the production and offline reports after full regex syntax was supplied.
Accepted ls -p / --indicator-style=slash as the directory-indicator answer and the included ls(1) manual content as evidence of the local source.
The documentation file was much larger than required; concise evidence extraction becomes the first Module 1 practice topic.
Final diagnostic ratings: 5 independent, 5 with help, 53 not yet started.
Began Module 1, Lesson 1: command anatomy and local documentation.

Next action: learner completes the Lesson 1 guided lab in modules/01-essential-tools/01-command-anatomy-and-documentation.md on the primary server.

2026-08-10 — Module 1, Lesson 1 guided lab reviewed

Correctly found the required mkdir, cp, and ls options using local help and man pages.
Correctly opened passwd(5) and found the seven fields in order. Only the field names and manual section were required; the detailed descriptions were not.
Confirmed that info is absent and declined the installation prompt as instructed.
Found /usr/share/doc/coreutils-common/TODO and correctly identified ls as an alias and ssh as /usr/bin/ssh.
The reference copied long documentation bodies and shell prompts rather than recording concise answers, despite the stated constraint. Documentation-use remains 🟦.

Next action: replace command-reference.txt with the concise version in the guided-lab review, display it, and report its line count. No additional research is required.

2026-08-10 — Module 1, Lesson 1 correction attempt 1

The submitted reference still contained the previously copied passwd(5) body and shell prompts, so it did not satisfy the concise-reference requirement.
README is a valid coreutils documentation filename and is accepted in place of TODO.
The SSH command-type line was replaced by an unrelated Sites skill reference; the already verified answer remains executable /usr/bin/ssh.
The requested line count was not supplied.

Next action: delete the entire contents of command-reference.txt, paste only the concise reference block from the lesson review, then submit cat and wc -l output.

2026-08-10 — Module 1, Lesson 1 guided lab completed

Verified the corrected 30-line command-reference.txt; all seven sections now contain the required concise findings.
Accepted the guided lab as complete. Documentation use remains 🟦 because the final format was completed from a supplied template.
Learner correctly identified that the original prompt required overly specific presentation without providing a template or example.
Updated the permanent teaching rules: guided artifacts receive an explicit schema/example when format matters, and grading cannot introduce unstated criteria after submission.

Next action: present the Lesson 1 independent task with command-free but explicit requirements, deliverable schema, allowed variation, and acceptance criteria.

2026-08-10 — Training account clarified

Learner confirmed that Module 1 Lesson 1 was accidentally performed after SSH login as xvin, explaining why ~ resolved to /home/xvin.
The work remains valid because it used an ordinary account and required no account-specific configuration.
Future exercises standardize on student; each lab will begin with identity and hostname verification to prevent work in the wrong home directory.

2026-08-10 — Module 1, Lesson 1 independent task issued

Issued a command-free independent assessment covering identity verification, command anatomy, --help, man-page sections, /usr/share/doc, command types, concise evidence, and final verification.
Added an exact deliverable schema, allowed variation, omissions, and acceptance criteria before the attempt.
No snapshot, root access, package installation, or additional infrastructure is required.

Next action: learner completes modules/01-essential-tools/02-command-documentation-independent-task.md as student and submits the commands, final artifact, line count, and uncertainty note.

2026-08-11 — Module 1, Lesson 1 independent attempt 1

Passed the identity gate as student on lab-cli-rhel-46 with /home/student.
Produced the required artifact at the correct path with all seven sections, exactly 35 lines, concise content, and complete submission evidence.
Correctly researched the RFC 3339 seconds option, grep line-number option, group fields, ABOUT-NLS purpose, command types, and command-token anatomy.
DATE recorded man date as its source, but the submitted command history shows date --help and no man date lookup.
GROUP-FORMAT recorded only Section 5, while the published schema explicitly required the page name and section.
Several relative-path mistakes and an accidental shell escape from vi were self-corrected without privileged changes.

Result: 7 of 8 acceptance criteria pass. Ratings remain 🟦 pending the two-line correction and a later info exercise.

Next action: correct only the DATE source and GROUP-FORMAT manual-page line, then submit the two sections and final line count.

2026-08-11 — Module 1, Lesson 1 independent task completed

DATE now records the documentation source actually shown in the command history: date --help.
GROUP-FORMAT now identifies the page and section as group(5).
The value was submitted as Manual page: Manual page: group(5); the duplicated label is treated as a minor presentation typo, not another failed attempt.
The previously verified 35-line structure is unchanged.

Result: independent task passed after targeted feedback. Command syntax and documentation objectives remain 🟦 because corrections were required; both are scheduled for a later unaided retest, and info still needs hands-on use after it becomes available.

Next action: begin the Lesson 1 troubleshooting phase.

2026-08-11 — Module 1, Lesson 1 troubleshooting issued

Issued four safe incident cases covering shell tokenization, destructive redirection order, directory traversal permissions, and relative-path resolution.
The learner analyzes static transcripts and must not execute the broken commands against real files.
Added an exact diagnosis schema, a non-answer formatting example, allowed variation, safety limits, and acceptance criteria.
No snapshot, root access, package installation, or additional infrastructure is required.

Next action: learner completes modules/01-essential-tools/03-command-documentation-troubleshooting.md and submits research commands, diagnosis.txt, its line count, and an uncertainty note.