Awesome! Thanks! Think I will checkout ora...looks like a good deal... Stace
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 5:10 PM To: CF-Linux Subject: RE: Newbie Stacy, I can say that getting a good general book on Linux, such as "Running Linux" by O'Reilly is a safe bet. The RedHat site provides a ton of good information on the things they do with their particular distro. And a good Linux book will give good underlying Unix background to help you learn general principles. At this time I would like to recommend checking out http://safari.ora.com You essentially get 7-10 books in any given month for about 10 bucks. You pay by the month and can change a book after you have had it for 30 days. I am in love. I go through books rather quickly and only buy books that redeem themselves as good references as well. So, check that out as a source of instant information. A general understanding of x86 architecture and hardware and a getting on a terminal and seeing how things work are the best ways to learn Linux IMO. When you get lost, grab a reference to figure out what is going on. In 95 when I first installed Slackware the man pages were sufficient after I got slack installed ;) Specifically, as far as tuning goes there is generally not a ton you should do. If performance is a huge concern you are talking about compiling your own kernel and applications to make sure they are optimized for your platform. Unfortunately compiling your own kernel and or standard system libraries would make your CFMX server an "unsupported" platform most likely. So make sure you install all the latest redhat updates for 7.2 (which is required for CFMX anyway). Turn off any services you are not using, make sure you have patched all your bugs and security vulnerabilities and you are set. Most of the performance tuning that happens is application tuning. You can tweak your kernel parameters and all a bit if you have serious load requirements, but mostly tweaking your applications configuration will yield the most benefit. Executive summary: Find a nice solid reference you are comfortable with and get into the system and begin learning. P.S. Don't worry about destroying the system to much on your first try. Just learn to streamline the installation process and before you go into production wipe your playground and re-install everything. This will let you learn and not worry to much about trashing the system or messing up permissions as you are experimenting. I have installed RedHat, patches, and CFMX in about two and a half hours total on moderate single processor system :) Good Luck! Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:30 PM To: CF-Linux Subject: RE: Newbie P.S. I've got two Dell Poweredge. Would like to make one with Apache and CFMX (I've been able to compile and install Apache so far) and the second box with Oracle 9i for Linux. So any resources or books that you could suggest for optimizing the OS for those two roles would be great! Stace -----Original Message----- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:26 PM To: CF-Linux Subject: Newbie I'm a relative newbie to Linux. I've got two servers that I'm installing RH Advanced Server on for some testing and what not...can anyone offer a good online resource on setting up a lean and mean version of this OS? Or any recommended books? Much appreciated! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: ------------------------------- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme. WARNING: ------------------------------- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
