On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:50:07AM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > What differences can I expect between a server running Oracle Linux and > my average server running CentOS ? As far as I can guess, their > "unbreakable" Linux kernel will still be some package called 'kernel' > (with the according 'kernel-devel' and 'kernel-headers' packages). > Probably Yum will be used as a dependency resolver (will it?), only with > different repositories. And for the rest, I except it to work the same, > in that I can still use chkconfig, ntsysv, rpm, etc. (what about > system-config-securitylevel-tui or similar tools?) Well, it's pretty similar. I'm not sure if I messed up the installation or not, but I had to later download reops--it has yum, chkconfig, service and so on. I didn't find a samba package, but as this was for one oracle developer to transfer files, we just used winscp. (I also didn't look hard for a samba package, at present, this is just a test.) Disk naming seems slightly different--we went with more standard partitions rather than LVM, and rather than /dev/sda and so on, it was /dev---arrgh, I'm not at work, and my mind just went blank--errm, xda and xdb? At any rate, it will be fairly obvious. As mentioned, this is a test, and while I don't know all the circumstances, we're not entitled to support--if you do it officially, as opposed to what is probably a trial version, there is support, and I assume (but note, that's an assumption, not knowledge), one could call and ask things like, Where can I find samba? (Samba client and samba common was available, but no smbd. Again, I did NO googling on this, just did yum provides */smbd, got no results, and then used WinSCP.) There won't be any major shocks. On the other hand, in our case, there's nothing at all tricky for my part of it--I just had to get a basic server running for the oracle developers to use. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6