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Linux installation
- Install and configure various Linux systems, partitioning and create a boot disk
PC Hardware & Linux
- Detecting New Hardware Manually
- Configuring New Hardware with Kudzu
- Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
- Configuring the Kernel
- Kernel Hardware Information
Post-install system configuration
- Configuration utilities, RPM and printers
Boot process and system V init
- Booting Linux on PCs, kernel boot and init files
- Managing startup services and daemons
- Shutdown and reboot
User/Group administration and NFS
- Discuss the concepts of the X Window System
- Modifying accounts and password ageing. PAM services
- NFS server configuration and clients
File system administration
- Partition tables, file system creation and management
- Swap, disk quotas and FACLs
- Backup software and tape libraries
LVM and RAID
- Logical Volume Management
- Implementing and manipulating LVM
- RAID usage
Task automation and process accounting
- Automating tasks and managing processes
- Log file management and process accounting
- Limiting system resources
Client networking
- Network interfaces, routing tables, virtual IP, DNS clients and DHCP
- Red Hat configuration tools and network diagnostics
The X Window System
- Xfree86 and configuring X
- X Fonts and display manager selection
- XDMCP and specialized X servers
Security concepts
- Tightening default security and using up2date utility
- Security advisories and Xinetd
- Basic firewall activation and iptables
Linux kernel compilation
- Getting kernel source and configuring the kernel
- General options, hardware configuration, kernel extensions and documentation
- Compiling, install modules, tips & tricks
DNS concepts
- Naming services, DNS and zones
- Resolving names and BIND administration
- Configuring the resolver and testing
Configuring BIND
- BIND configuration files and named.conf.
- Creating a site-wide cache and zone database
- SQA, NS and CNAME. Abbreviations and shortcuts
OpenLDAP servers
- OpenLDAP components and configuring SLAPD
- Global parameters and schema definition
- Access control and backend configuration
- Indexes and replicas
Using OpenLDAP
- Managing SLAPD, querying the database and LDAP client configuration
Using Apache
- Apache history, architecture, configuration files, shared objects
- Apache logging and Webalizer
Virtual hosting with Apache
- HTTP virtual servers
- DNS and security implications
- IP, Name and port based virtual hosts
Apache security
- Delegating administration
- Directory protection and SSL
Implementing an FTP server
- WU-FTPD and configuring vsftpd
- Anonymous FTP
The SQUID proxy server
- SQUID overview and file layout
- Access control lists, applications and tuning
- Bandwidth metering, monitoring SQUID and proxy client configuration
Samba concepts
- SMB network protocol, NetBIOS and NetBEUI
- Introducing Samba, daemons, clients and utilities
- Samba configuration files
Using Samba
- UNIX and DOS permissions, name and case management
- Sharing homes, printers and restricting access
- SMB and passwords, smbpasswd database and user share restrictions
Sendmail
- Sendmail features, process, architecture and components
- Configuration files, databases and text files
- Network, controlling access and configuring SMTP AUTH, SMTP STARTTLS
Postfix
- Postfix features, architecture, components and configuration
- Postfix map types, pattern matching and advanced options
- Virtual domains, mail filtering, configuration and management commands, logging, server/client configuration,TLS
IMAP, POP, spam filtering and web mail
- Filtering email, procmail, SpamAssassin and accessing email
- Pop3 and IMAP4 protocols and servers
- Fetchmail and SquirrelMail
Troubleshooting
- Common problems, file permissions, inability to boot and corrupt file systems
- Disks full, runaway processes, virtual memory and the rescue environment
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