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Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration

1.1 Linux Overview

1.2 Red Hat Linux Hardware and Installation

1.2.1 Starting Red Hat Linux installation

1.2.2 Automating Red Hat Linux installation process with “Kick Start”

1.2.3 Installing Red Hat Linux with PXE (Pre-Execution Environment)

1.3 Using the bash Shell

1.3.1 Understanding shells

1.3.2 Using the Command Line

1.3.3 Environment Variables and Settings

1.3.4 Managing Processes

1.4 Processing Text

1.4.1 Redirection, Pipes, tee and xargs

1.4.2 Modifying Text with Filters

1.4.3 Enhancing Searches with regular Expressions

1.5 Using Shells and Scripts

1.5.1 Using vi

1.5.2 Customizing the Shell Environment

1.5.3 Writing Simple Scripts

1.6 Managing Files

1.6.1 File management commands

1.6.2 Understanding File System Hierarchy

1.6.3 Locating Files

1.6.4 File Access Permissions

1.6.5 Creating Files Links

1.6.6 Using compression tools

1.7 Managing Users and Groups

1.7.1 Configuring User Accounts

1.7.2 Configuring Groups

1.7.3 Account Security

1.8 Using Partitions and File Systems

1.8.1 Linux File System Overview

1.8.2 Creating Partitions and File Systems

1.8.3 Checking the File System

1.8.4 Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

1.8.5 Disk Management with user Quotas

1.9 Installing Software

1.9.1 Installing software from source code (tarball files)

1.9.2 Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

1.9.3 Managing Shared Libraries

1.10 Working with the Kernel

1.10.1 Kernel Overview

1.10.2 Reconfiguring and Installing a new Kernel

1.10.3 Managing modules

2. Managing Network Services and Security

2.1 Configuring a Squid Proxy Server

2.1.1 Basic Squid Configuration

2.1.2 Configuring Parent Squid

2.1.3 Configuring Squid Web Proxy Cache

2.1.4 Configuring Squid with Access Control Lists

2.1.5 Configuring Security and Password Authentication

2.2 Configuring the Domain Name Server DNS

2.2.1 Understanding DNS: Zones and Domains

2.2.2 The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND Utilities

2.2.3 Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server

2.2.4 Configuring a Slave Name Server

2.2.5 Configuring a Forwarding-Only Name Server

2.3  Configuring Apache Web Server

2.3.1 Basic Apache Configuration for a simple Web Server

2.3.2 Apache and Security Arrangements

2.3.3 Configuring Apache for SSI and CGI Scripts

2.3.4 Configuring Web Access to Home Directories

2.4 Configuring Mail Services

2.4.1 Mail Transport Agent, Mail Delivery Agent and Mail User Agents

2.4.2 Reciption with Dovecot

2.4.3 Configuring Sendmail

2.4.3 Configuring and Activating Postfix

2.5 Configuring Network File Sharing Services

2.5.1 Network File System NFS

2.5.2 File Transfer Protocol and VSFTPD

2.5.3 Samba Services

2.6 Other Networking Services

2.6.1 The Extended Internet Services Daemon (Xinetd)

2.6.2 The Secure Shell Package; SSH and SCP

2.6.3 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP

2.6.4 Common Unix Printing System CUPS

2.7 Basic Mysql Configuration

2.8 Linux software RAID

2.9 Expanding Linux partitions with LVM