linux+ certification bible 2002

L
inux+
L
inux+
Master the
material for the
CompTIA Linux+
Exam XK0-001
Test your knowledge
with assessment
questions and
scenario problems
Practice on
state-of-the-art
test-preparation
software
“This is the all-inclusive Linux+ guide
you’ve been looking for.”
— Tim Sosbe, Editorial Director, Certification Magazine
100%
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT
COMPREHENSIVE
AUTHORITATIVE
WHAT YOU NEED
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT
ible
Trevor Kay, Linux+, A+, Network+, Server+
Author of Server+ Certification Bible
Test Engine powered by
“This is the all-inclusive Linux+ guide
you’ve been looking for.”

— Tim Sosbe, Editorial Director, Certification Magazine
®
®
Linux
®
+ Certification
Bible

Linux
®
+
Certification Bible
Trevor Kay
Best-Selling Books • Digital Downloads • e-Books • Answer Networks • e-Newsletters • Branded Web Sites • e-Learning
New York, NY ✦ Cleveland, OH ✦ Indianapolis, IN
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
Published by
Hungry Minds, Inc.
909 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
www.hungryminds.com
Copyright © 2002 Hungry Minds, Inc. All rights
reserved. No part of this book, including interior
design, cover design, and icons, may be reproduced
or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the
prior written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 2001093590

ISBN: 0-7645-4881-6
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1P/RZ/RS/QR/IN
Distributed in the United States by Hungry Minds, Inc.
Distributed by CDG Books Canada Inc. for Canada; by
Transworld Publishers Limited in the United
Kingdom; by IDG Norge Books for Norway; by IDG
Sweden Books for Sweden; by IDG Books Australia
Publishing Corporation Pty. Ltd. for Australia and
New Zealand; by TransQuest Publishers Pte Ltd. for
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Hong
Kong; by Gotop Information Inc. for Taiwan; by ICG
Muse, Inc. for Japan; by Intersoft for South Africa; by
Eyrolles for France; by International Thomson
Publishing for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; by
Distribuidora Cuspide for Argentina; by LR
International for Brazil; by Galileo Libros for Chile; by
Ediciones ZETA S.C.R. Ltda. for Peru; by WS
Computer Publishing Corporation, Inc., for the
Philippines; by Contemporanea de Ediciones for
Venezuela; by Express Computer Distributors for the
Caribbean and West Indies; by Micronesia Media
Distributor, Inc. for Micronesia; by Chips
Computadoras S.A. de C.V. for Mexico; by Editorial
Norma de Panama S.A. for Panama; by American
Bookshops for Finland.
For general information on Hungry Minds’ products
and services, please contact our Customer Care
department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside

the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002.
For sales inquiries and reseller information, including
discounts, premium and bulk quantity sales, and
foreign-language translations, please contact our
Customer Care department at 800-434-3422, fax
317-572-4002, or write to Hungry Minds, Inc., Attn:
Customer Care Department, 10475 Crosspoint
Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46256.
For information on licensing foreign or domestic
rights, please contact our Sub-Rights Customer Care
department at 212-884-5000.
For information on using Hungry Minds’ products
and services in the classroom or for ordering
examination copies, please contact our Educational
Sales department at 800-434-2086 or fax 317-572-4005.
For press review copies, author interviews, or other
publicity information, please contact our Public
Relations department at 317-572-3168 or fax
317-572-4168.
For authorization to photocopy items for corporate,
personal, or educational use, please contact
Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive,
Danvers, MA 01923, or fax 978-750-4470.
LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF W
ARRANTY: THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR HAVE USED THEIR
BEST EFFORTS IN PREPARING THIS BOOK. THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE
CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES WHICH
EXTEND BEYOND THE DESCRIPTIONS CONTAINED IN THIS PARAGRAPH. NO WARRANTY MAY BE

CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES REPRESENTATIVES OR WRITTEN SALES MATERIALS. THE
ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREIN AND THE OPINIONS
STATED HEREIN ARE NOT GUARANTEED OR WARRANTED TO PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RESULTS,
AND THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERY
INDIVIDUAL. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR AUTHOR SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT OR
ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES.
Trademarks: Hungry Minds and the Hungry Minds logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Hungry
Minds, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Linux is a trademark or registered trademark of Linus
Torvalds. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Hungry Minds, Inc., is not
associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.
is a trademark of
Hungry Minds, Inc.
About the Author
Trevor Kay is a holder of four CompTIA certifications: A+, Network+, Server+, and
Linux+. Trevor is also the author of the Server+ Certification Bible. Trevor started
his IT career working at a local museum as a desktop publisher. From there, he has
held many positions, from IT help desk, technical support, and network administra-
tor positions for local companies to having a key roll in the Y2K projects of one of
the largest financial institutes in Canada.
Credits
Acquisitions Editor
Katie Feltman
Project Editor
Amanda Munz Peterson
Technical Editor
Joe Byrne
Question Writer
James Russell
Copy Editor

Rebekah Mancilla
Editorial Manager
Ami Frank Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Technical
Publishing
Richard Swadley
Vice President and Publisher
Mary Bednarek
Project Coordinator
Jennifer Bingham
Graphics and Production Specialists
Beth Brooks, Laurie Petrone,
Jill Piscitelli, Heather Pope
Quality Control Technician
John Bitter, Valery Bourke, Angel Perez
Permissions Editor
Laura Moss
Media Development Specialist
Travis Silvers
Media Development Coordinator
Marisa Pearman
Proofreading and Indexing
TECHBOOKS Production Services
Cover Image
Anthony Bunyan
This book is dedicated to all my family and friends. Your tremendous support made
this book possible.
Preface
W
elcome to the Linux

®
+ Certification Bible! This book is designed to help you
acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities you need to pass CompTIA’s
Linux+ Certification:
* Exam XK0-001 : Linux+ Certification
This book is designed to be the only book or course you need to prepare for and
pass CompTIA’s Linux+ Certification exam, which is one of the newest members of
CompTIA’s certification family.
This book deals with all of the objectives stated by CompTIA for the Linux+ exam.
You learn how to deal with planning a Linux implementation (including installing
Linux in a GUI or text-based environment) and configuring the Linux operating sys-
tem after installation. This book also teaches you how to administrate and maintain
your Linux system, troubleshoot common problems, and how to identify, install,
and maintain system hardware.
My hope is that you’ll find this book the most helpful Linux+ Certification product
reference that you’ve ever read. I also hope that you’ll use it not only to prepare for
CompTIA’s Linux+ Certification exam, but that you’ll come back to it again and
again as you perform your day-to-day Linux professional tasks.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is organized into seven major parts, followed by a glossary, an index, and
one CD. Here’s what you’ll find in this book:
Part I: Linux Basics
Part I presents the information that you need to understand Linux. This part covers
the creator of Linux and a brief history about the development of Linux . The Linux
Kernel and the many different types Linux distributions are also discussed.
Part II: Installation
Part II includes the instructions on how to perform a proper installation of Linux.
GUI and text-based installations are covered. Identifying all system requirements
and validating that they support Linux is also included. The different types of roles
ix

Preface
and services of Linux system are discussed along with identifying where to obtain
software and resources.
Part III: Configuration
Part III is about configuring your Linux system. This part teaches you how to config-
ure X windows with automated utilities and workstations for remote access . This
part also covers how to add and configure printers along with information about
installing and configuring add-in hardware, reconfiguring the boot loader, and
editing basic configuration files.
Part IV: Administration
Part IV covers how to administrate a Linux-based environment. This part shows
you how to create and delete users, modify existing users, and create, modify, and
delete groups. Next, this part teaches you how to identify and change file permis-
sions, manage and navigate the Linux hierarchy, and mount and manage file sys-
tems, devices, common shell commands, and expressions. You also learn how to
use network commands to create, extract, and edit file and tape archives by using
tar. The part ends with the information that you need to manage runlevels; start-
ing, stopping, and restarting services; managing print spool and queues; using vi;
and managing and navigating the GUI. It also teaches you how to program basic
shell script by using common shell commands.
Part V: Maintaining the Linux System
Part V is about maintaining the Linux system. This part provides you with informa-
tion on how to monitor and maintain processes, network interfaces, system logs,
security, and backup. Areas in this part include creating and managing local storage
devices and file systems, understanding functions of the cron command, identify-
ing core dumps, and how to run and interpret ifconfig. This part focuses on down-
loading and installing patches and updates; identifying, executing, and killing
processes; monitoring system log files; and how to properly document work per-
formed on a system. This part also teaches you how to perform and verify backups
and restores, gives you security best practices, and teaches you how to set daemon

and process permissions.
Part VI: Troubleshooting and Maintaining
System Hardware
Part VI is about troubleshooting Linux systems. This part provides you with the
basic knowledge and skills to identify, inspect, and diagnose problems in the Linux
operating system and how to apply remedies by using common commands and util-
ities. In this part, you learn how to identify and locate the problem by determining
whether the problem originates from: hardware, operating system, application
x
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
software, configuration, or the user. You also learn troubleshooting best practices,
editing configuration files based on symptoms using system utilities, using systems
boot disk(s) and root disks on workstations and servers to diagnose and rescue file
systems. This part also teaches you how to inspect and determine causes of errors
from system log files, how to use disk utilities to solve file system problems, and
how to recognize common errors. You learn how to take appropriate action on boot
errors, how to identify backup and restore errors, how to identify and use trouble-
shooting commands, and how to locate troubleshooting resources and updates.
This part also covers the knowledge that you need to maintain your Linux system
hardware. This part covers the knowledge and skills you need to install, configure
and troubleshoot core and peripheral hardware in a Linux environment. This part
includes information on generic hardware issues and Linux specific hardware
issues. Topics in this part include: Identifying basic terms, concepts, and functions
of system components, including how each component should work during normal
operation and during the boot process; removing and replacing hardware and
accessories, identifying basic networking concepts; and proper procedures for diag-
nosing and troubleshooting ATA, SCSI, and peripheral devices. You also find the
knowledge on how to properly troubleshoot core system hardware, including pro-

cessors, RAM, and mainboards.
CD-ROM
The compact disc included with this book contains some excellent resources and
programs. You’ll find this entire book in Adobe PDF format and a variety of different
programs that I hope you will find useful. To find out more about the CD-ROM,
please see Appendix A.
How Each Chapter Is Structured
A lot of thought went into the structure and design of this book, particularly the
specific elements that will provide you with the best possible learning and exam
preparation experience.
Here are the elements you’ll find in each chapter:
✦ The complete exam objectives that are covered in the chapter
✦ A Chapter Pre-Test to test your knowledge before reading the chapter
✦ Clear, concise text on each topic
✦ Screen shots and graphics that are worth more than a thousand words
✦ A Summary
xi
Preface
✦ A comprehensive Study Guide that contains:
• Exam-style Assessment Questions
• Scenario problems for you to solve,
• A Lab that you can use to sharpen your skills
• Answers to Chapter Pre-Test Questions, Assessment Questions, and
Scenarios
How to Use This Book
This book can be used either by individuals working independently or by groups in
a formal classroom setting.
For best results, I recommend the following plan of attack as you use this book.
First, take the Chapter Pre-Test, and then read the chapter and the Key Point
Summary. Use this summary to see if you really understand the key concepts. If you

don’t, go back and reread the section(s) that you’re not clear on. Then, do all of the
Assessment Questions and Scenarios at the end of the chapter. Remember, the
important thing is to master the tasks that are tested by the exams.
The chapters of this book are designed to be studied sequentially. In other words,
it’s best if you complete Chapter 1 before you proceed to Chapter 2. A few chapters
can probably stand alone, but all in all, I recommend a sequential approach.
After you’ve completed your study of the chapters and reviewed the Assessment
Questions in the book, use the test engine on the compact disc included with this
book to get some experience answering practice questions. The practice questions
will help you assess how much you’ve learned from your study and will also famil-
iarize you with the type of exam questions you’ll face when you take the real exam.
After you identify a weak area, you can restudy the corresponding chapters to
improve your knowledge and skills in that area.
Although this book is a comprehensive study and exam preparation guide, it does
not start at ground zero. I assume that you have the following knowledge and skills
at the outset:
✦ Basic terminology and basic skills to use a Linux distribution
✦ Basic mouse skills: being able to left-click, right-click, double-click, use the
pointer, and so on.
✦ Basic PC hardware and networking comprehensions
If you meet these prerequisites, you’re ready to begin this book.
xii
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
If you don’t have the basic Linux experience or mouse skills, I recommend that you
work through a self-study book, such as Linux For Dummies (Hungry Minds, Inc.) or
the Linux Bible (Hungry Minds, Inc.).
Conventions Used in This Book
Every book has its own set of conventions, so I’ll explain the icons I’ve used in this

book.
You’ll see icons throughout each chapter. Six types of icons are used in this book.
Below are the explanations of each icon:
This icon is used to warn you that something unfortunate could happen if you’re
not careful. It also points out information that could save you a lot of grief. It’s
often easier to prevent a tragedy than to fix it afterwards.
This icon points you to another place in this book for more coverage of a particu-
lar topic. It may point you back to a previous chapter where important material
has already been covered, or it may point you ahead to let you know that a topic
will be covered in more detail later on.
This icon points out important information or advice for those preparing to take
the Linux+ Certification exam.
Sometimes things work differently in the real world than books — or product
documentation — say they do. This icon draws your attention to the author’s real-
world experiences, which will hopefully help you on the job (if not on the Linux+
certification exam).
This icon is used to draw your attention to a little piece of friendly advice, a help-
ful fact, a shortcut, or a bit of personal experience that might be of use to you.
This icon points out exactly where an exam objective is covered in a particular chap-
ter, so you can focus your efforts on the areas where you need the most practice.
Acknowledgments
Iwould like to thank my brother, Nigel Kay, for his input and contributions to this
book and the many hours he spent with me on this project to make this book the
best it can be.
Thanks to everyone at Hungry Minds, including Katie Feltman, Acquisitions Editor;
Amanda Peterson, Project Editor; Rebekah Mancilla, Copy Editor; Joe Byrne,
Technical Editor; and to everyone in the Graphics and Production departments for
their hard work and dedication to making this book a reality.
And special thanks to my mother and close friends: Clare Steed, Sharon Kay,
Hamish Humphray, Walter Bell, Dell Errington, Anne Greenfield, The Testolin family,

Rob (The Sculpture) Heath, Joe Piotrowski, Kevin Benjamin, Russ Francis, Jim Esler,
Lisa Mior, Ricki Fudge, Beth Crowe, Elena N. Ranchina, Greg Stephens, Steve
Marino, and Ken Dejong for their tremendous support during this project.
Contents at a Glance
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Part I: Linux Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1: Basic Linux Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2: Linux Kernel and Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Part II: Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3: Pre-Installation Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 4: Installing Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 5: Advanced Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Part III: Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Chapter 6: Configuring X-Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chapter 7: Configuring Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 8: User Environment Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Part IV: Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 9: General Linux Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Chapter 10: Linux Terminals and Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter 11: Linux System Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Part V: Maintaining the Linux System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Chapter 12: Linux Disk and System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Chapter 13: Process Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Chapter 14: Linux Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Chapter 15: Backing Up Your Linux System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Part VI: Troubleshooting and Maintaining System Hardware . . . . 479
Chapter 16: Linux Troubleshooting Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Chapter 17: Troubleshooting the Boot Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Chapter 18: Troubleshooting Software and Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Chapter 19: Installing and Maintaining System Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Appendix A: What’s on the CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Appendix B: Objective Mapping Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Appendix C: Sample Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Appendix D: Exam-Taking Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
End-User License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Part I: Linux Basics 1
Chapter 1: Basic Linux Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What is Linux? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The origin of UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Who started Linux? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
GNU and GPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Understanding Open Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Understanding Closed Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Understanding Artistic License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Is Freeware really free? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Is Shareware never free? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A comparison and contrast of licensing methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Growth of Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Linux on a Personal Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Graphical installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hardware detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Linux limitations on the PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Linux succeeds on the PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Linux on workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Linux on servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter Pre-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 2: Linux Kernel and Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Linux Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Kernel versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Kernel availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Linux Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Beehive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
BlueCat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
xvii
Contents
Caldera OpenLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Debian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Corel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
DragonLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Elfstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Gentoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hard Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
KRUD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
LinuxPPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Mandrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Phat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Red Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Slackware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
StormLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SuSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
TurboLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Yellow Dog Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Mini and Specialty Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Astaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
KYZO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
FlightLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
LEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
NetMAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Packages and Packaging Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Red Hat Package Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Debian Package Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Tarball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Linux Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter Pre-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Part II: Installation 51
Chapter 3: Pre-Installation Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Linux In the Real World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Word Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Spreadsheets and databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Web browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
File transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
More, more, and more applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
xviii
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
The Server and DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
A Linux Web server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Linux e-mail server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
File servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Proxy, news, and search servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
FTP servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Determining Linux Roles and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Comparing Linux with other operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Hardware compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter Pre-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter 4: Installing Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Final Preparations for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Package selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Final hardware verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Pre-installation partitioning planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Text or GUI installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Basic setup of Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Selecting the machine type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Partitioning the hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing a boot manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Creating the Boot Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Additional installation information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Accounts and passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Additional packages to install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
GUI installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Obtaining video card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Configuring the X windows system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Selecting the windows manager or desktop environment . . . . . . 117
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Answers to Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
xix
Contents
Chapter 5: Advanced Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Alternative to the GUI Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Command Line installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Install the Linux system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Network installations of Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Review of a Linux Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Installation media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Initial selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Installation type or class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Disk partitioning and formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Installing LILO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Network configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
User accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Authentication methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Package selection and installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A Dual-Boot Installation of Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Linux with Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Linux with Microsoft Windows NT and 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Linux and Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Linux and other operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Installing Additional Software with gzip and tar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Installing Additional Software with RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Removing software with RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Upgrading software with RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Query the RPM software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Verify the RPM software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Verify the package files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Upgrading the Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Upgrading a Linux Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
System Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
The Final Test of the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Part III: Configuration 173
Chapter 6: Configuring X-Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
What is the X Window System? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
The X Window System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
X Client and Server communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
X Window Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
xx
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
Configuring X Window Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Custom X Window System Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Manual Configuration of the X Window System . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Chapter 7: Configuring Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Basic Network Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
TCP/IP Protocol Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Connection protocols needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Other network protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Configuring Basic Network Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Host name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
IP addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Netmask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Hardware resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Routing and gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
PPP, SLIP and PLIP connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Server Tasks with
linuxconf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
NFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
IP aliases for virtual hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Apache Web Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Samba File Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Home directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Disk shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Configuring Client Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
SMB/CIFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
NIS client configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
NFS client configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Configuring Internet Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Web browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
POP and SMTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
TFTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Rlogin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
OpenSSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
xxi
Contents
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Chapter 8: User Environment Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Adding Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Adding a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Video and monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Setting environment variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
BASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Part IV: Administration 289
Chapter 9: General Linux Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Basic User and Group Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
What are users and groups? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Creating users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Change user information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Deleting users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Creating groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
The groupmod command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
The groupdel command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Getting Around Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Navigating Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Common file and directory commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
xxii
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
Setting File and Directory Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
The chmod command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
The chown command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
The chgrp command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Mounting and Managing File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Umount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Mounted file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Chapter 10: Linux Terminals and Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Multi-User Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
The creation of Virtual Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
The Linux Terminal Server Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Configurations for remote systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Monitoring remote connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Common Shell Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Basic shell scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Caution using root access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Navigating the GUI interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Chapter 11: Linux System Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Linux Runlevels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
init . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Shutting down Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Managing Linux Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Configuring Linux Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

lpd daemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
/etc/printcap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Printing management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Using the vi Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
vi operation modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Editing text files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
xxiii
Contents
Using the tar Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Part V: Maintaining the Linux System 381
Chapter 12: Linux Disk and System Management . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Disk and File System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Repairing Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
System Automation and Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
cron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Core Dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Analyzing core dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
GNU Debugger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Managing Networking Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Installing System Packages and Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Compressed archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Debian Package Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Slackware Package Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Chapter 13: Process Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Linux Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Core services versus non-critical services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Process administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Process control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Monitoring Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Maintaining Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
xxiv
Linux
®
+ Certification Bible
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Chapter 14: Linux Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Securing the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
System/user files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Log auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Linux Security Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Network security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
System security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Securing a Web server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Securing an FTP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
FTP program version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
FTP configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Process security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Answers to Chapter Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Chapter Pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Chapter 15: Backing Up Your Linux System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Disaster Recovery Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Types of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Frequency and Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Storage and media types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Recovering data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Offsite storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Linux Backup Tools and Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Third party tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Tape devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Assessment Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Lab Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475