RH301 Red Hat?? Linux (RHCE??) Rapid Track Certification Course Training Class

1. Hardware and Installation

• Hardware Compatibility


• CPU and SMP Support


• New Hardware Detection


• Plug and Play


• Block and Other Devices


• Disk Addressing and Partitioning


• Peripheral Devices and Their Configuration


• The Red Hat Installer


• Performing and Validating the Installation

2. The Boot Process

• Virtual Consoles


• The Boot Process


• Kernel Initialization


• init and /etc/inittab


• Exploration of the init Process


• The GRUB Boot Loader

3. Filesystem and Software Administration

• Partitioning Utilities


• Journaling Filesystems


• Formatting Filesystems


• mount


• The Automounter


• /etc/fstab


• Red Hat Network Implementation


• Maintaining Software with RPM


• Performing RPM Queries


• RPM Related Utilities

4. User Administration

• PAM


• Creating User Accounts


• Maintaining User Accounts


• Creating and Maintaining Groups


• The User Private Group Model


• SGID Directories


• The Initial User Environment


• Configuring Quotas


• NIS Server and Client Configuration

5. System Administration Tools

• Installing with Kickstart


• cron Scheduling


• Daily cron Scripts


• Network Interface Configuration


• CUPS Configuration and Administration


• LPRng Configuration and Administration


• syslog Configuration

6. Kernel Services and Configuration

• Linux LVM Configuration and Administration


• Managing Kernel Modules


• Examining and Setting Kernel Parameters in /proc


• Software RAID Configuration and Recovery

7. Apache and Squid

• Squid Proxy Server Overview


• Apache Configuration


• Implementing Apache Virtual Hosts

8. NFS and Samba

• Configuring an NFS Server


• Samba Client Tools


• Samba Server Configuration


• Windows Passwords and Samba


• Sharing Files, Directories, and Printers with Samba

9. DNS and Electronic Mail

• Sendmail Configuration Files


• m4 Macro Language and the sendmail.mc File


• Additional sendmail Configuration Files


• Postfix Configuration Files


• Configuring BIND


• named.conf


• Configuring Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones


• Special Zones


• Zone Files

10. FTP, xinetd, and OpenSSH

• vsftpd Configuration


• DHCP Server Configuration


• OpenSSH Client Utilities


• OpenSSH Server Configuration


• OpenSSH Authentication Methods


• xinetd.conf


• xinetd Service Files

11. The X Window System

• Configuring XFree86


• The X Protocol Overview


• X Protocol Network Transparency


• X Window System and ssh


• Window Managers


• Display Managers


• X Window System Security


• X Window System Modularity


• XFree86 Startup


• The X Font Server

12. Securing Services

• tcp wrappers Configuration


• netfilter Configuration


• Maintaining netfilter Rules


• netfilter Example


• netfilter Network Address Translation


• netfilter Connection Tracking

13. Troubleshooting

• Filesytem Corruption


• Filesytem Recovery


• Things to Check: The X Window System


• Things to Check: Services


• Things to Check: Networking


• Things to Check: Booting


• The Rescue Environment


• Recovery Runlevels


• Boot Floppies

Hands-on Labs:

Lab 1: Hardware and Installation

Lab 2: The Boot Process

Lab 3: User Administration

Lab 4: System Administration Tools

Lab 5: Kernel Services and Configuration

Lab 6: Apache and Squid

Lab 7: NFS and Samba

Lab 8: DNS and Electronic Mail

Lab 9: FTP, xinetd, and OpenSSH

Lab 10: The X Window System

Lab 11: Securing Services

Lab 12: Troubleshooting

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