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

[sixtyfourbeets]

The less Non-GPL'd close sourced software that I have to oversee the better.
Besides, I have every intention to see how much Oracle I can phase out and
use MySQL or Postgres.

On 12/28/06, Michael B Allen <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


The problem is yum doesnt seem to want to install itself during the initial
OS install.

> 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.


I have to agree but only because the circumstances that Linux is in
nowadays.
Part of the intention with GPL'd software was its OS flavor neutrality,
unfortunately that doesnt seem to be the case anymore.  However, Suse seems
to take to compiling source code very well, RedHat doesnt seem to want to
cooperate I want to compile something from source.


> 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.


Lastly and most importantly is I will certainly not run anything with PHP on
my machines.

Steve M

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