Scenario: "Karakorum": WTFIT – What The Fun Is This?

Level: Hard

Type: Fix

Tags: realistic-interviews   pro   linux-other   advent2025  

Access: Email

Description: (NOTE: this is not a new scenario but an existing Pro one temporarily available to all users as the last Advent of SysAdmin 2025 scenario).

There's a binary at /home/admin/wtfit that nobody knows how it works or what it does ("what the fun is this"). Someone remembers something about wtfit needing to communicate to a service in order to start.

Run this wtfit program so it doesn't exit with an error, fixing or working around things that you need but are broken in this server.

Root (sudo) Access: True

Test: Running /home/admin/wtfit returns OK.

Time to Solve: 20 minutes.