[nylug-talk] Administiring a RedHat server box and other fun Linux things

[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:28:14 -0500
sixtyfourbeets <sixtyfourbeets at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been put in the charge of 4 Oracle database nodes running on top of
> RedHat, eventually this responsibility will swell to around 20 machines.
> 
> Does RedHat have any nifty command-line tools like Suse' Yast to administer
> its box without being forced to install the whole GUI overhead?

You can use "yum" to list, search, query, remove, install packages. It's
slower than evolution but it works.

> I've looked through gnu.org listing of software and there seem to be
> available a number of tools that can help me oversee these machines.

I wouldn't recommend installing anything that isn't built and supported
specifically for the particular distribution you're using. At least
you should never upgrade libraries that were not built specifically for
that distro/version.

> Out of personal pride closed source software is out of the question, I
> refuse to subject myself to be under the rule of the thumb of incompetent
> software vendors.

Like Oracle? Just because software is open source doesn't make it's
authors competent.

Mike

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