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RHCSA & RHCE Exam Setup Guide

This document provides an overview of topics covered in the RHCSA and RHCE exams including hardware requirements, checking the Linux version, configuring file sharing services, and mounting DVDs or ISO images. It discusses commands like uname, cat, and mount that can be used to gather system information. It also lists the default HTTP and FTP servers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and configuration options for each in their configuration files.

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RHCSA & RHCE Exam Setup Guide

This document provides an overview of topics covered in the RHCSA and RHCE exams including hardware requirements, checking the Linux version, configuring file sharing services, and mounting DVDs or ISO images. It discusses commands like uname, cat, and mount that can be used to gather system information. It also lists the default HTTP and FTP servers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and configuration options for each in their configuration files.

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Chapter 1

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RHCSA and RHCE Exams

1.1:

1.2: Hardware requirements

uname
• -p
•

cat /etc/redhat-release - Shows current version (5.x, 6.x, etc) on Red Hat, CentOS, and all Fedora-
based kernels. Note that this file can be modified to meet X requirement. Alternatives include:
• cat /etc/issue -
• lsb_release -i -r -
• uname -r - then map the kernel to a version.

GNOME - (GNU Network Object Model Environment)

Special Setup Options for Virtual Machines

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward - He
/etc/sysctl.conf - set net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

sysctl - interface for examining dynamically changing parameters in BSD and Linux OS.
• -p - lists bynaries in /etc/sysctl.conf (by default).

1.7: Configure Default File Sharing Services


Default HTTP server for RHEL 6 is Apache. Default FTP server is vsFTP.

httpd - Apache Webserver daemon.


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/etc/vsftpd.conf
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• /var/www/html/
• port 80
•
vsftpd - “very safe” file transfer protocol daemon
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/etc/vsftpd.conf
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• /var/ftp/pub/
• listen port - 21
• active port - 20
• Not relevant to RHCSA, but see http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html for details.
•

From DVD
• mount /dev/dvd /media
• mount -o loop $isofile /media

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