Re: Any do's and dont's for a 9i oracle installation on RedHat Linux

Hi,
Suse7.2 is certified with 9.0.1. It will never be certified with 9.2 and later versions. Suse has a special product SLES - Suse Linux Enterprise Server. It's based on Suse 7.2 and include many official patches and upgrades.
Afaik, with Suse 7.2 you may not upgrade your kernel and be certified with Oracle. (7.2 out-of-the-box has 2.4.4) It's not always the problem, but you have a chance to forget about Oracle support when you critically need it. The current politic of Suse regarding Oracle is to support new products from now (or some time in the past) on SLES. So it's certified with 9iR2 (including RAC), iAS 9iR2, Apps 11i.
Btw, Suse guys claim that Oracle uses Suse as linux development platform.

I know RH has something like Suse's SLES... called RH AS (advanced server), but dunno much about it.
We use 7.2 (plus 2.4.16 kernel) for several servers and pretty much happy with it. However, we will move to SLES soon.

Alexandre

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Hi Ray,

I have Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.0.1 running on an Suse 7.2 box configured with ext3 file systems. Both instances are working properly and without major issues.

Suse 7.2 comes along with a variety of file systems , including ReiserFS , ext3 , ext2 , Aix“s JFS and other that I can“t recall now.

Regards,
Antonio Belloni

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Not on the oracle topic:

RH is pretty insecure out of the box. If you don't take steps to lock it down the machine will be compromised within the hour in our experience. There are some good web pages out on the steps that need to be taken:

http://www.sans.org/newlook/projects/bastille_linux.htm http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/People/Bill/basic_sec.html

I'd suggest the use of iptables:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jns/security/iptables/

That said, I have a screaming 8.1.7.4 server running on RH 7.1. I am unhappy with the oracle support matrix for RH, however. It seems to have stalled a 7.1. I'm thinking of giving SuSE 7.2 a run since it is supported, hoping the ext3 filesystem is there. RH7.1 only has ext2. The seemed to be pushing the RH advanced server with 9i, which seems like a real Redmond, WA thing.

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:08:19AM -0800, Docherty, Heather wrote:
> I am installing RedHat Linux and oracle 9i on two RM servers.
>
> I have never run Linux before. I usually run HP L-class or Sun Sparc
> servers with 8/8i.
>
> I would welcome emails with tips anybody has for avoiding anything I
don't
> know that I should be avoiding yet, if you see what I mean!
>
> OT: Does anyone know why running startx, after boot-up to a Linux text
> prompt, causes the shutdown -r to hang the box and not reboot?
>
> Heather
> Napier University
> Edinburgh, Scotland
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