List of Exercises

Chapter 1: RHCE Prerequisites

Exercise 1-1: Using vi to Create a New User

Exercise 1-2: Creating a New LVM Partition

Exercise 1-3: Checking the PATH

Chapter 2: Hardware and Installation

Exercise 2-1: Partitioning

Exercise 2-2: Partitioning During Installation

Chapter 3: The Boot Process

Exercise 3-1: GRUB Error Effects

Exercise 3-2: Using the GRUB Command Line

Exercise 3-3: Booting into a Different Runlevel

Chapter 4: Linux Filesystem Administration

Exercise 4-1: Configuring the Automounter

Optional Exercise 4-2: A Floppy Drive and the Automounter

Chapter 5: Package Management

Exercise 5-1: Installing More with pirut

Exercise 5-2: Creating a Sample Kickstart File

Optional Exercise 5-3: Modifying the Packages to be Installed

Chapter 6: User Administration

Exercise 6-1: Adding a User with the Red Hat User Manager

Exercise 6-2: Securing Your System

Exercise 6-3: Configuring Quotas

Exercise 6-4: Controlling Group Ownership with the SGID Bit

Exercise 6-5: Configuring PAM

Exercise 6-6: Using PAM to Limit Access

Chapter 7: System Administration Tools

Exercise 7-1: Modifying Network Interfaces with system-config-network

Exercise 7-2: Creating a cron Job

Exercise 7-3: Checking Logs

Chapter 8: Kernel Services and Configuration

Exercise 8-1: Compiling and Installing a Custom Kernel

Exercise 8-2: Mirroring the /home Partition with Software RAID

Chapter 9: Apache and Squid

Exercise 9-1: Installing the Apache Server

Exercise 9-2: Creating a List of Files

Exercise 9-3: Password Protection for a Web Directory

Exercise 9-4: Updating a Home Page

Exercise 9-5: Setting Up a Virtual Web Server

Exercise 9-6: Configuring Squid to Act as a Proxy Server

Chapter 10: Network File-Sharing Services

Exercise 10-1: NFS

Exercise 10-2: Using the NFS Server Configuration Tool

Exercise 10-3: Configuring a Basic vsFTP Server

Exercise 10-4: Using Home Directories

Exercise 10-5: Configuring Samba with Shares

Chapter 11: Domain Name Service

Exercise 11-1: Setting Up Your Own DNS Server

Chapter 12: Electronic Mail

Exercise 12-1: Testing E-mail Services

Chapter 13: Other Networking Services

Exercise 13-1: Configuring xinetd

Exercise 13-3: Configuring DHCP

Chapter 14: The X Window System

Exercise 14-1: Starting X Server

Exercise 14-2: Starting Multiple X Servers

Exercise 14-3: Customizing the startx Process

Exercise 14-4: Starting a Display from a Remote Client

Exercise 14-5: Exploring Desktops

Chapter 15: Securing Services

Exercise 15-1: Configuring tcp_wrappers

Chapter 16: Troubleshooting

Exercise 16-1: Diagnosing and Correcting Network Problems

Exercise 16-2: Diagnosing and Correcting Hostname Resolution Problems

Exercise 16-3: Configuring the X Window System

Exercise 16-4: Configuring a Desktop Environment

Exercise 16-5: Adding a New Partition

Exercise 16-6: Troubleshooting the Boot Loader

Exercise 16-7: Troubleshooting Boot Loader Modules