Howard, Chris wrote:
I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working
on HP-UX systems.
Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on
Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle
and Linux.
For SL, I'm assuming I can call my SL 5.3 installation equivalent
to Red Hat 5.3 for Oracle support purposes?
Not from the point of view of Oracle. If you want support from them, you
better run RH.
...
Is it safe to do regular yum updates on a dedicated
Oracle App Server/SL 5.3 box? Maybe I should just
let it run at the current configuration and not
chance breaking something.
If you want support from Oracle, you might want to restrict yourself to
security updates only, and of course RH (or the Oracle clone).
Matthias
