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Howard, Chris wrote:
> I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working
> on HP-UX systems.
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> Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on
> Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle
> and Linux.
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> 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.
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> 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
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