RHCE

Is anyone here certified in Red Hat?
If so can they suggest a book for configuring, troubleshooting Red Hat
servers?
Or does Suse or other offer certification.

As it is now it seems Red Hat has perfromance based testing (not
multiple choice), and the way you learn the system is to work hands on
with it.

This is like a guild where you have to apprentice to someone who knows
and lets you use the equipment he has with instruction from him so that
you learn how to do what he the master knows.

I am not so lucky, using my own computers and my own money and my own
knowhow. So is there anything written that is good that you can
suggest. I know about O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutschell which is a good
list of all commands.

I can also read the tome man bash or info bash since that shell seems
basic and is the command line used in the terminal generally.

I also know Michael Jang has a recent RHCE book out but I don't
particularly like his writing and explanation style.

Thanks in advance.

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> Is anyone here certified in Red Hat?

Probably, but why care?

> If so can they suggest a book for configuring, troubleshooting Red Hat
> servers?

It's much simpler then reading tons of books, it's great to have
them, just in case, but they won't get you that easy going then
the most obvious. Backup your personal data, remove doze from
your system, install RH if you want it and actually use it.

> Or does Suse or other offer certification.

Do you want to learn how to run Linux or how to get some certs to
get you a job?

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I have 6 machines running Linux in 3 different versions. I have not
networked with it, instead use MSWindows on peer to peer.
But I have read parts of several MSCE books and this has helped me
understand problems with transferring files to NTFS OS's. This is a
major problem between and among different OS's and file systems. I am
looking for a universal, maybe fat 16 but it is so limited.

I also want to know if you can download rpms or other drivers or
applications like OpenOffice, or kernel patches or new kernels into a
Win XP computer running under Win 2000 server and loading onto a Lexar
jump drive in fat 16 and the work in Linux, or do they somehow get
messed up for example Mac files will not read off a dos formated floppy
unless you have a reader of Dos files installed in Mac. But so if you
download to a fat16 jump drive will a driver work in Mac>>see I've got
the same questions about Linux.

Or can you burn an ISO boot disk in Windows(?) and it work to boot
Linux when the file was downloaded into the Windows(?) OS and file
system?

I would like a book that tells what to do in a kernel panic, or in
repair mode in bootup or installation...never have found this
documented and don't think it is in man pages.

What I like about linux is its stability, it actually keeps the MSWin
machines calmer and not crashing. I suspect this is because of the way
Linux/Unix allocates resources of the computer, but I don't know.
Maybe a good RHCE book would explain this.

There is a lot to know about any OS or Server system, and you can't
just screw up a network to try and figure if you can fix it. So how
else can you learn than by reading from someone who knows or just
handling problems when they come up which may give you next to no
experience if you have a very stabile system.

Oh I forgot on one machine I'm using Fedora

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> I have 6 machines running Linux in 3 different versions. I have not
> networked with it, instead use MSWindows on peer to peer.
> But I have read parts of several MSCE books and this has helped me
> understand problems with transferring files to NTFS OS's. This is a
> major problem between and among different OS's and file systems. I am
> looking for a universal, maybe fat 16 but it is so limited.

You can use smb (samba) over the network, Linux can mount smbfs
natively. Fat32/vfat is the easiest for local data.

> I also want to know if you can download rpms or other drivers or
> applications like OpenOffice, or kernel patches or new kernels into a
> Win XP computer running under Win 2000 server and loading onto a Lexar
> jump drive in fat 16 and the work in Linux, or do they somehow get
> messed up for example Mac files will not read off a dos formated floppy
> unless you have a reader of Dos files installed in Mac. But so if you
> download to a fat16 jump drive will a driver work in Mac>>see I've got
> the same questions about Linux.

Should be no problem, text files need to be run through dos2unix
to be corrected.

> Or can you burn an ISO boot disk in Windows(?) and it work to boot
> Linux when the file was downloaded into the Windows(?) OS and file
> system?

Should be no problem.

> I would like a book that tells what to do in a kernel panic, or in
> repair mode in bootup or installation...never have found this
> documented and don't think it is in man pages.

There's no general advice for any problem that might happen, you
need to get used to the basics and learn how to debug problems.

Try a google search for "Linux rute tutorial".

> What I like about linux is its stability, it actually keeps the MSWin
> machines calmer and not crashing. I suspect this is because of the way
> Linux/Unix allocates resources of the computer, but I don't know.
> Maybe a good RHCE book would explain this.

Not really, one reason is it was developed by people who belief
in what they are doing.

> There is a lot to know about any OS or Server system, and you can't
> just screw up a network to try and figure if you can fix it. So how

Why not? Remove bash and try to fix the system. Look at problems
people are asking for on usenet and try to resolve them. Don't
reply until you are really sure you understood how to solve the
problem. Unsure why you used coln, can't really see how your
questions are network related.

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#bofh excuse 340: We'll fix that in the next (upgrade, update,
patch release, service pack).

honestly I would not set up a network with samba or anything in linux
till i read a book on networking it. That may be why no questions are
related to networking. I wouldn't intall WindowsNT 4.0, Windows 2000
server, or Window 2003 server or Netware or any server before I read a
book on it. I guess i am a bookworm or just too cautious. but its
like RTFM, HOW?