2011/7/20 <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: > Iain Morris wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists >>> <centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>> On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >>>>> Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss >>>>> alternative for it. >>>> >>>> There is http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ >>> >>> They have it? Awesome! >>> Thanks for the info!! >> >> Spacewalk is great, but be prepared for some significant configuration >> time and energy. Also, it requires Oracle (postgres is in progress >> last I checked). The "free" version of Oracle has a single processor >> limitation. > <snip> > Two and a quarter years ago, I got stuck with Spacewalk where I had a > short-term contract, and it was a horror. (Note that while I was working > on it, it went from 0.4 to 0.5) As Iain said, it requires Oracle, and I > found I had to add an addition setting to Oracle - the free version has a > max of 1G of memory, and I had to max it out (I think I set shared memory > in Oracle's control panel to 994M), just to get it to work. It's also > complex to configure and use, so if you're not looking at dozens or > hundreds of machines, I wouldn't use it. Oracle named user license is very cheap .. -- Eero