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RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer

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1. What is the standard directory for file sharing with vsFTP?






2. When you configure Squid on your system - you need to allow access through appropriate ports and SELinux settings. The simplest approach with respect to Squid configuration assumes that all clients use the default Squid port 3128 - using TCP - where






3. ____ is used for creating ext2 and ext3 file systems






4. httpd ___ shows me what config files were installed when the httpd package was installed






5. Virtual Host Configuration: Names the URL for the virtual host.






6. httpd ___ to update the httpd package - automatically answering yes to all the questions






7. ______ will show me volume info including vg - size - etc of /dev/rootvg/tmplv






8. ____ can expand and shrink ext2 and ext3 file systems






9. If you configure other directories for Web services - you'll need to change their ACL settings. For example - if you create and then use the /www directory - run the following commands:






10. List sboth the client hostname or IP address and mounted directory in host:dir format. This info should not be considered reliable.






11. ____ configuration is not available via text mode RHEL installation.






12. How to disable the firewall on the current system?






13. Where is the config dir for vsftpd?






14. Tthe file that might contain: oldvg - rootvg - etc.






15. Perform a simple check of the file system. minor-num is x.






16. ____ is used to modify file system parameters






17. The main Squid configuration file is ____/squid.conf






18. rpm ____ verifies all installed rpms against the rpm database






19. The RPM database also maintains an MD5 checksum of each file. With the checksum - you can use the ____ package command to determine whether any file from that RPM package has changed.






20. Where is vsftpd.conf?






21. output from ____ is: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB - 36414750720 bytes... plus listing of partitions - for each physical drive






22. The rpm ____ option installs the package - if it isn't already installed.






23. Apache supports security by specifying active ports through the Listen and ____ directives.






24. To verify integrity of an rpm package - ____/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release






25. rpm ____ verifies the installed zip rpm against the rpm database






26. To update a kernel - 1) ____ 2) boot new kernel to test 3) revert to old kernel if problems 4) yum remove kernel-oldversion if no problems






27. You can check the status of your share. If it's working - you should see the contents of the /etc/exports directory when you run the following command:






28. You can use the ____ tool after installation to add any package groups that you missed.






29. ____ prints superblock and block group information.






30. What command starts the same menu as the text-mode First Boot process?






31. For linux ext2 there is an easier way than using resize2fs. LVM 1 ships with a utility called __________ which does the lvextend and resize2fs for you (it can also do file system shrinking)






32. OS from http.conf - this line looks deceptively simple; it limits what readers see about your Web server when you browse to a nonexistent page. If you don't use this command - outsiders can see whether you've loaded modules such as Perl - Python - an






33. '____ /var/www' will tell you the ACL settings of /var/www






34. I just ran rpm -ivh zip-2.3-8.i386.rpm .. whooops - now I don't want this on my system so to get it off via rpm I type ____






35. SELinux must be configured to Allow HTTPD To Read Home Directories. (Alternatively - activate the httpd_enable_homedirs boolean with the __ command.)






36. To list under which run levels the web service will start






37. rpm ____ to import the rpm key for integrity checking






38. rpm option to show me the package files






39. If you want to add an iptables command to forward TCP port 80 traffic to TCP port 3128 - you would use the following:






40. Create a usb boot disk if the usb stick is /dev/sdc and the file you need is in your present directory






41. What is the first post installation step?






42. If you want to create a database file named webpass in the /etc/httpd directory - for user 'e' - you'd start with the following command:






43. After extending file system 'homevol' - unmount it and then run _____ to make the filesystem size match the new larger volume.






44. Where is the main apache data directory?






45. This line placed in /etc/hosts.deny sends a customized error message for Telnet users on the crack.org domain saying sorry [insert client info] - access denied






46. This line placed in /etc/hosts.deny will mean that only computer allowed to access our Telnet server has an IP address of 192.168.1.10






47. How to install vsftpd?






48. Use parted to display disk geometry for /dev/hda and end up in shell






49. How to install apache?






50. The default Red Hat Enterprise Linux firewall blocks access to an NFS server. While inelegant - the following command 'flushes -' or turns off - the standard Linux firewall from the local computer.