F

fdisk utility

about, 14, 804

commands for, 15, 186–187

configuring new PC without

partitions, 189

creating partitions with, 188–189

deleting partitions with, 188

df and mount commands for, 185–186

DOS FDISK.EXE vs., 186

options for, 16

overview, 185–186

parted utility vs., 191, 192

setting up swap partition, 190–191

troubleshooting with, 745, 747–748, 752–753

using, 185, 187

Fedora Core 5/6

about, 53

RHEL installation process vs., 92

using, 54–55

Fedora Linux, 804

FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), 11, 57, 804

file locking, 504

file permissions, 30–31

file sharing. See network file sharing services

File Transfer Protocol. See FTP; vsFTP servers

files. See also configuration files; httpd.conf file; and specific files

access control lists and permissions for, 208–210

allowing and denying, 48

Apache log, 471–472

changing default user permissions for, 289–290

checking shared Samba, 520–521

compressing, 37–38

configuring SELinux Management

Tool labeling options for, 714–715

contexts for SELinux, 706

corrupted, 755–756

creating, 22

crontab, 355–357

defaults for hidden, 285, 286

downloading kernel tar, 396

editing ks.cfg, 254

executable virtual host, 470

file permissions, 30–31

found in NFS nfs-utils and portmap RPM packages, 496

grub.conf, 390, 391–392

.htaccess, 463–464

index.html, 469

installing from, 92

key Squid, 477

linking, 22

list of /etc/profile.d/, 289

listing hidden, 286

localhost.zone, 567

managing system log, 38

meminfo, 381

modifying configuration, 162

modules.dep, 386

NFS file locking, 504

operating commands for, 19–22

/proc, 380–383, 811

reading, copying, and moving, 21–22

reverse DNS zone, 572–573

sample kickstart, 248–251

searching for, 20–21

sendmail configuration, 592–593

setting up executable, 28–29

sharing with Apache, 458–459

sorting, 23

spec, 815

symbolically linked NFS, 503

system configuration, 169–172

testing changes to /etc/samba/smb.conf, 542

/tmp directory configuration, 129

wildcards for searching for, 25

word count for, 23

zone, 570–572

filesystem device nodes, 11, 12, 13

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), 11, 57, 804

filesystems, 11–19, 184–219. See also partitions

about, 11

access control lists with, 208

administrative tasks for, 210

automounting, 203–207

configuring on multiple partitions, 17–18

converting LVM1 to LVM2, 430

creating LVM partition, 18

defined, 12, 804

directories in, 12

ext2/ext3 attributes for, 199

formatting and checking, 14–17

fsck command for unmounted, 740

journaling, 197–198

kernel configuration options for, 407

lab questions and answers, 213–214, 216–219

local and remote network, 44

logical volumes and, 97

managing, 196–199

media devices compatible with, 12

messages when mounting ext2, 740

mkfs command for creating, 198–199

mounting directory to, 200–207

partitions mounted to, 18–19

self test and answers for, 212–213, 215–216

setting up partitions with separate, 101

standard formatting, 196–197

troubleshooting, 747, 751–755

two-minute drill, 211

types of, 196

filtering files, 23–24

find command, 21, 804

fips (First Interactive Partition Splitter), 804

firewalls

checking network communications with installation server, 87

configuring during first boot, 122

defined, 804

enabling DNS ports for, 564, 565

Kickstart Configurator setup of, 259

maintaining configurations in iptables file, 700

packet filtering by, 697–698

packet IP address replaced with NAT, 703

running NFS through, 501

saving iptables configurations for, 700

setting up with Security Level Configuration tool, 701–703

Squid running with, 482

troubleshooting issues with, 756

using Apache with, 458

First Boot process, 120–126

about, 120–121

configuring regular user, 124

firewall configuration during, 122

installing software from Additional CDs window, 125

kdump service setup, 123, 806

licensing, 122

password requirements in, 125

SELinux configuration during, 122–123

setting system date and time, 123, 124

software updates configured during, 124

testing sound card configuration, 125

text-based steps for, 126

First Interactive Partition Splitter (fips), 804

firstboot, 804

floppy drives, 207

--force switch, 674

forward slash (/)

end of Apache container indicated with, 452

root directory indicated by, 12

forwarding-only name servers, 561, 565–566

fsck command

about, 14, 17

defined, 804

remounting filesystem with, 17

troubleshooting filesystems with, 754–755

using only with unmounted filesystems, 17, 740

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), 512–515. See also vsFTP servers

basic vsFTP server

configuration, 515

configuring network installation server, 85–86

defined, 805

installing vsFTP servers, 512

lab questions and answers, 549–551, 553–556

options in SELinux Management Tool for, 711

prerequisite skills for, 45

self test and answers, 548–549, 552

SELinux support for vsFTP servers, 512–513

starting vsFTP servers on reboot, 513

time-efficient installations via FTP servers, 94, 95

two-minute drill, 546–547

vsFTP server security configuration, 513–514