> From: Barry Hoggard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:52:21 -0400 > > > > > Remote maintability: Is it possible to remotely upgrade between OS > > versions for either of those platforms (not a must, but would be a plus)? > > I would be afraid to do that remotely, since it normally involved a > kernel change as well.
We have an internal distribution which is kinda mostly a redhat system gets various RPMs updated remotely including kernel RPMs, but I'm *very* careful with kernel RPMs and do multiple installs on non-remote systems before I do any remote systems. > > > > Sendmail: Does the system make it easy to replace sendmail with another > > mailer of choice (qmail in my case)? > > I don't know about Red Hat, but it's certainly easy in SuSE. Build your own RPM from one of the SRPMs out there and qmail will work fine. > > > > Footprint: Is it easy to weed out unused system components to have a > > smaller footprint of the OS? Or does that mean fighting the installer > > left and right? > > I don't know if Red Hat is getting any better, but I've always found it > difficult to do a "minimal" install. SuSE has options for a very > minimal install which is what I use for server installs. We created our own comps file for our custom configs. > > > > perl: Any iussues with perl/modperl? Besides modperl I will be running a > > perl application with a few hundred thousend lines of code... > > My current project: http://www.better-investing.org > > runs on Red Hat. I'm not aware of any perl/mod_perl issues, but I built > perl and the apache binaries myself. I don't use their RPMs. I use a mix of RedHat RPMS, my own RPMs and other people's RPMs. My perl and apache RPMs are all currently from Mandrake. (I seem to be gradually migrating towards Mandrake.) Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 716 Congress, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78701 +1 512 374 0500 "What are you really trying to do."
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