Hi,

Have just decided to commit to going for RHCE. I'm using RHEL 4 at work, which is getting me experince. But, I need to complement this with home study and experience. I was wondering if I instaled Fedora at home, would that be closely comparable to using RHEL 4 and help with any practice work, or would it just lead to confusion?

Another thing, I can't seem to find any RHCE self study material that deals with RHEL 4, only books dealing with 3. Anyone know of any RHEL 4 books or other marerial that would help toward RHCE?

Thanks,

Neil.

Welcome to the community!

If you are dealing with sysadmin stuff, I'd highly recommend O'Reilly's "Running Linux" book. If you are just dealing with the desktop and not managing stuff, a RH book will suit you fine.

My point is that while a RH book will teach you RH, learning the stuff in the O'Reilly book will teach you Linux as it applies to all distributions (with some small variations). The differences that you will encounter with the different distributions are mainly in their package management features (read up on the rpm program for RH) and sysadmin guis (RH uses system-config-sound and the like in Fedora...not sure about enterprise).

Hopefully other people will comment on this issue, but I'm sure that the majority will agree that working with Linux entails dealing with essential system commands covered in non-distro specific books.

If you want something almost exactly like RHEL, then install CentOS. It is a rebuild of RHEL from source rpms. I am also looking for material with content for RHEL 4, so let me know if you find something.

Thanks for the replies. Have got the O'Reilly LPI book and have also been going through the LPI stuff on the IBM site, so have been getting a good basic understanding of Linux command line stuff, but the "Running Linux" book also sound like a good investment.

If anyone does have any books or web sites on the RHCE exam dealing with RHEL 4 that would be really great. I know there are various books dealing with RHEL 3, but my understanding is that there are quite a few changes or additions to RHEL 4 that need to be covered to be able to get through the labs?

Just that my budget doesn't go far enough for the official Red-Hat courses

Thanks again,

Neil.

Yes you can use any of the systems
Fedora & RHEL 3 both work even RHEL 4

Michael Jang's RHCE Study Guide is pretty good..I'm going through that book now

I've nearly ordered it a couple of times now. I keep holding back, as it deals with RHEL 3 and not 4. Is the main difference betwen 3 and 4 just SELinux, or is there much esle? If it is just the SELinux, I guess can download that document from the Redhat site and study that in combination with Michael Jang's book.

Any thoughts?

Neil.

Is SE Linux part of the RHCE exam now? I don't see it in the RH300 course outline.

You're right it doesn't appear to be on the RH300 course outline. So my question then is what are the differences between the old RHEL 3 exam and the current RHEL 4 exam? If the differences are only in the underneasth OS and not the methods of configuring and accessing it, if the tools are all the same then the RHEL 3 book by Michael Jang should be okay to use?

Neil

I haven't taken the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHCE exam (just for RHL 8)

I get the impression that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is more focused on LVM2, which is relevant to the partitioning you'll need to do.

The tools are named different - e.g. system-config-display, not redhat-config-display - but they pretty much work the same

I'm sure there are differences in the base services that you'll have to configure - but many times, when there are minor changes, e.g in Samba, you can still use the same config file.

But you don't have to recompile the kernel - don't overdo the study of really complex stuff - make sure you know the basics very well. The basics are listed in the www.redhat.com Exam Prep guide and RH300 course outline. The book you cite is pretty well reviewed.

There is a difference between RHEL 3 and 4
It is in the BIND conf....

If you contact RedHat's training folks, the can email you some materials outlining the differences between 3 and 4.
Mainly, it's Selinux, LVM2, and chrooted named, though they have also switched from XFree86 to Xorg for the X server.

yes named lookup file is needed to be in /var/named/chroot/var/named.will someone please spot the differences b/w rhel3 vs rhel4.as am preparing for rhce,i dont see much differences.