Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-17 Thread Richard Troth
Wow ... many replies to what sounds like a simple question. You should look further ahead. Will this system ever run anything else? (ie: besides Oracle) Marcy's point about the security patching is spot on. Keeping up with actual threats is tough enough, and if your organization is big enough the

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
---Original Message- From: van Sleeuwen, Berry [mailto:berry.vansleeu...@atos.net] Sent: 16 December 2011 17:09 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" I don't know if that would help too. Our Oracle &q

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Damian Gallagher wrote: > There is a difference between the installation requirements and the runtime, > as is usual. Installation requires x , but runtime doesn't - and the docs > state 4GB as that's the amount needed to get a full install. If you're a min > i

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread Damian Gallagher
sage- From: van Sleeuwen, Berry [mailto:berry.vansleeu...@atos.net] Sent: 16 December 2011 17:09 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" I don't know if that would help too. Our Oracle "specialist" ran a script

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
ehalf Of > Damian Gallagher > Sent: vrijdag 16 december 2011 15:47 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put > everything on" > > Oh, we can do better than that :-) On the assumption that you have a > supp

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
ssary, though. Cheers Damian -Original Message- From: Mauro Souza [mailto:thoriu...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 December 2011 10:56 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" There's a RedBook (http://www.redbooks.ibm

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread Damian Gallagher
[mailto:thoriu...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 December 2011 10:56 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" There's a RedBook (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247634.html) for installing Oracle on System Z. It contai

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-16 Thread Mauro Souza
390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:20 PM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: [LINUX-390] Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle > vs "Put everything on" > > I got into a dis

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
u] On Behalf Of CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:20 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" I got into a discussion with a co-worker over packages that are installed on a zLinu

Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on"

2011-12-15 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
I got into a discussion with a co-worker over packages that are installed on a zLinux oracle server. We are Running RHEL 5.7 at our site, and are using Oracle 10g (about to go to 11g). I noticed that our Oracle servers have an average of 1192 rpm packages installed and 91 define system services com