I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions.
Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
Thanks, Gene Poole
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:03:58 -0400 gene.poole@macys.com wrote:
I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions.
Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
Since you apparently already know how to install the software that you want to run on Fedora, what kind of an example are you looking for? Centos is pretty much the same as Fedora administration-wise, so what works on Fedora should work on Centos.
My servers are Centos and my desktops and laptops are a mixture of Fedora and Centos and there's not a lot of difference between them.
gene.poole@macys.com wrote:
I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions.
Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
A) install CentOS 5 minimal or base, configure as needed. update to current patches with...
yum -y update
B) use yum install XXXX to install any other tools you need as you go. I almost always install...
yum -y install sysstat ; server IO performance tools like iostat, sar yum -y group-install "Development Tools" ; if you need to compile anything w/ gcc etc yum -y erase gcc-java ; horrible gcj should be burned but its dragged in with development-tools
but your mileage may vary.
C) edit /etc/inittab and insure the first non-comment line reads...
id:3:initdefault:
(the '3' is the boot init level)
done.
gene.poole@macys.com wrote:
I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions.
Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
If you don't install or configure X11 then it boots to init3 by default.
In kickstart the config option is 'skipx'.
As others have mentioned fedora and centos admin is very similar.
My personal preference of course is RHEL 5 for Oracle, your already paying quite a bit for Oracle my view is might as well pay a little bit more for a supported OS(and yes I know that CentOS is a clone of RHEL..).
Unless of course Oracle changed their support policies I haven't used it since I was at my previous company about a year ago. They didn't support CentOS at the time.
nate
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, natecentos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
gene.poole@macys.com wrote:
I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions.
Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
If you don't install or configure X11 then it boots to init3 by default.
In kickstart the config option is 'skipx'.
As others have mentioned fedora and centos admin is very similar.
My personal preference of course is RHEL 5 for Oracle, your already paying quite a bit for Oracle my view is might as well pay a little bit more for a supported OS(and yes I know that CentOS is a clone of RHEL..).
Unless of course Oracle changed their support policies I haven't used it since I was at my previous company about a year ago. They didn't support CentOS at the time.
nate
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I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in beer)? So my take is he's not paying anything.
Lucian@lastdot.org wrote:
I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in beer)? So my take is he's not paying anything.
AFAIK, its only free for your initial development work. As soon as you deploy a production app, you have to get support, and as soon as you have a support contract, you can no longer run any free instances, except the lightweight 'express' version which is limited to very small databases with only a few connections and doesn't have any of the enterprise functions.
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