Hi,
we successfully installed some Solaris 8 zones and I'm wondering if I
should delete some of the not necessary packages from the Solaris 8 Zones.
I already removed the Veritas packages (VxVM, VxFS, and some VCS
packages) Should I also delete some of the plain Solaris 8 packages that
are not
well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
disk space is cheap.
ed
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:20:31PM +0100, Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we successfully installed some Solaris 8 zones and I'm wondering if I
> should delete some of the not necessary packages from the Solaris 8 Z
Ed,
>>well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
>>disk space is cheap.
Not SAN ... but I don't care about the diskspace -- I was only thinking
it might be useful/recommended to do so.
regards
Bernd
Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
> well, certainly you could remove packages, but why
Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Ed,
>
>>> well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
>>> disk space is cheap.
>
>
> Not SAN ... but I don't care about the diskspace -- I was only thinking
> it might be useful/recommended to do so.
The vx* pkgs probably can be removed without a problem.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz
wrote:
> well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
> disk space is cheap.
> ed
For the same reasons that you don't install unneeded packages in the
first place: security, stability and space.
fpsm
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Fredrich Maney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz
> wrote:
> > well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
> > disk space is cheap.
> > ed
>
> For the same reasons that you don't install unneeded packages in the
> fi
Fredrich Maney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz
> wrote:
>> well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
>> disk space is cheap.
>> ed
>
> For the same reasons that you don't install unneeded packages in the
> first place: security, stability and space.
T
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Edward Pilatowicz
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Fredrich Maney wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz
>> wrote:
>> > well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother.
>> > disk space is cheap.
>> > ed
>>
>> For t
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote:
> Thats really not the focus of the s8 branded zone.
Understood. However the OP asked if it made sense to do so. In my view
it is nearly always worth the negligible amount of time and effort
required to minimize and harden a system.
> If you'