James Hogarth wrote:
Why? The current CentOS kernel isn't anywhere near the latest, nor is a fair bit of other stuff in CentOS 5.5. And there are lots of folks running yr-old releases.
I... I... I don't really know how to answer this one...
Anyone who is running *CentOS* from a year ago is strongly urged to upgrade... they always have been on this list. There have been plenty
I agree... but some won't, or can't. I've got someone here who insists on running RHEL 3, because of collaborators around the world who can't upgrade. <snip>
If you showed up on the Spacewalk mailing list saying you have a 0.5 instance with X problem the first thing to be said is at least get up to 1.0 as there have been so many bug fixes over a year that it becomes difficult to troubleshoot an issue and any fix found will not be backported to 0.5 but rather released as either a hotfix to the current version or fixed in the next release.
Fortunately, that was on a previous job, and we have something here that a) doesn't need a d/b, and b) is *nowhere* near as outright hostile to install and configure. I've been burned, badly, and don't care to use it again. <snip>
I was on the mailing list. Did they ever put the change to the documentation that I sent in, that I found, about the settings required to make Oracle happy to work with it?
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I did mention a dependency on Oracle. I, and others, followed the instructions on the wiki and got an instance running fine. What did you mention specifically? Looking at the website there are steps to follow for oracle:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup
Please only comment on stuff you have genuine *current* knowledge of and not something you dabbled in a year ago... technology changes quickly especially in a product under heavy and active development.
I didn't "dabble", my manager and VP insisted I get it up asap. And I just went to the page, above, and no, it does *not* mention what I found, which is that I had to go into Oracle admin, and up the memory available to, mmm, I think it was 995M, where the default is only 940M, and that was the *only* way to get around the stop-dead-in-my-tracks problem.
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