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Redhat FAQ

Maintained by: Stephen Carville

These instructions have only been tested on Redhat and derivative systems such as KRUD and Fedora.

This really isn't an FAQ in the normal sense so much as it's a bunch of notes I made while trying to get real systems to work. Nevertheless, a few associaes of mine have found then useful in their administrative duties so I've assembled them as bet I can into one, more-or-less, coherent document.

Contents
1 Amanda
- 1.1 Clients
2 Big Brother
- 2.1 Initial setup
- 2.2 Server Setup
  - 2.2.1 Secure Shell
- 2.3 Client setup
  - 2.3.1 Modify logwatch output for Big Brother
- 2.4 Adding a Service to Client
- 2.5 bb-cpu.sh
3 CVS and RCS
- 3.1 CVS
- 3.2 RCS
- 3.3 Clients
  - 3.3.1 Cervesia
    - 3.3.1.1 To add a new project directory
4 FTP
- 4.1 If Necessary
- 4.2 Create the Account
- 4.3 Disable DNS lookups in ftpd
- 4.4 Example ftponly script
- 4.5 Example ftpaccess file
5 Hylafax
- 5.1 Recieving Faxes
- 5.2 Adding Modem
6 Installing Linux
- 6.1 After Install Setup
  - 6.1.1 Oracle servers
  - 6.1.2 Sample /etc/java.sh
7 Modem
- 7.1 mgetty
- 7.2 Manual Modem Setup
8 Networking
- 8.1 Redhat 7.2
  - 8.1.1 Adding a sub interface
    - 8.1.1.1 Second Method (Not recommended except for testing)
  - 8.1.2 Static Routes
- 8.2 Redhat 7.0
9 OpenSSL
- 9.1 Conventions
- 9.2 Create a Certificate Signing request
- 9.3 Signing a Certificate
- 9.4 Decrypting a Server Key
- 9.5 Encrypting a Server Key
- 9.6 Show the fields in a certificate
- 9.7 Convert OpenSSL Key to IIS Key
- 9.8 Self Signed Certificate
- 9.9 Create a Private CA
10 Port Forwarding
- 10.1 Using xinetd redirect function
- 10.2 Using Netcat
11 Postfix
- 11.1 All Machines
- 11.2 Send Only
- 11.3 Mail Server
  - 11.3.1 Emptying mail queue
- 11.4 Special Considerations
  - 11.4.1 Local Delivery when forwarding
- 11.5 Configuration Notes
- 11.6 Postfix init script
12 PPP
- 12.1 Firewall
13 Raid on Linux
- 13.1 Building a RAID set
- 13.2 Replacing a Failed RAID1 Drive with a spare
- 13.3 Replacing a failed RAID1 drive without a spare
- 13.4 Stopping a RAID
  - 13.4.1 If stopping the RAID doesn't work
14 Obsolete RAID Procedures
- 14.1 Upgrading RAID 1 system disks for Linux
- 14.2 Setting up Raid 5 for Linux
  - 14.2.1 Mounting the new file system
- 14.3 Setting up Raid 1 for Linux
15 Serial Ports
16 Shorewall
- 16.1 Multi-homed Routes
17 Secure Shell
- 17.1 Connecting with no Password
- 17.2 Port Forwarding
18 Time Services
- 18.1 Server Setup
  - 18.1.1 Firewall
- 18.2 Client Setup
- 18.3 Example /etc/ntp.conf
19 InstallingTomcat
- 19.1 Using mod_jk
- 19.2 Multiple Tomcat Servers on one Machine.
- 19.3 Example Tomcat Startup Script
20 KRUD Updates
- 20.1 Updates using yum and NFS
  - 20.1.1 Updating
21 Miscellaneous Services
- 21.1 Setting up a Printer
- 21.2 Setting the default path
- 21.3 Changing the colors ls uses
- 21.4 Adding/Removing words from cracklib_dict
- 21.5 Booting Single-User Mode with Grub
- 21.6 Converting an ext2 partition to ext3
- 21.7 Create a Boot Floppy
- 21.8 Grabbing BIOS information (Dell Specific)
- 21.9 Redirecting the Console to a Serial Port
- 21.10 Adding Truetype Fonts to X-Windows
- 21.11 Samba
About this document ...

2005-03-20