RHCT - Do I need RHAS?

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> I'm thinking of taking the RHCT course, but our company doesn't use
> anything other than RHWS (v3) for our technical computing needs.  There
> are three of us who administer the systems; two of us are self taught
> (with a lot of help from HOWTO and mailing lists ;-) ) and the other has
> 20+years of computing administration experience.  My question is this, do
> we need to get an ES or AS subscription, or could I just install (and
> purposefully break) a FC4 system?
> 
> How much of the RHCT course is based on packages that are only contained
> in the higher level server packages?

The things that I can think off the top of my head that are in ES but
not WS include and are listed in the prep guide:
DNS server
DHCP server
FTP server

I believe the rest of the stuff you need is in WS but you'll definitely
want to check the RHCE exam prep guide at
https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/examprep.html

Nothing stops you from adding these packages to a WS environment - you
just won't get the support from Red Hat on these particular add-ons.
Grab the SRPMS from Red Hat's public FTP server and rebuild them and
install on WS.

>From Red Hat's web site:
Packages that are not in Enteprise Linux WS or Red Hat Desktop include:
amanda-server, arptables_jf, bind, caching-nameserver, dhcp, freeradius,
inews, inn, krb5-server, netdump-server, openldap-servers, pxe, quagga,
radvd, rarpd, redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-netboot, tftp-server,
tux, vsftpd, and ypserv.

You should also note that you can download a free 30-day demo of ES or
AS from http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/eval/
This is a 30-day subscription so you'll be able to keep it current for
30 days.  At the end of the subscription period, it won't stop working
but you just can't up2date it any more.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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