Greetings, On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am in appreciative of your suggestion and proposal. However, the concern is > that if the centos produce such undesirable results within one month during > its trial period then What would be its consequences on production server? In > fact, it has been put under observation for one month to study its function > and charactersistics. Erasing and resinstalling can be done without wasting > time but what is the solution to existing malfunction? It is a case study > whose end result could become beacon light for those who encounter such > secnario in future. But unfortunaetely, the solution is becoming elusive to > our effort. > Centos is more or less binary compatible with RHEL which comes with paid support. There is a very vibrant and responsive centos mailing list centos at centos.org . The primary targets of this distribution (and RHEL) is Enterprise and datacentre market place as production or De/Testing before production which could be having RHEL paid subscription. The key point is long term support - 10 years for centos 5 and centos 6. The long term support implies that the base packages do not so considerable jumps in the point releases. i.e. if the base comes with php5.2 it will remain that for support duration. so one may not find the latest and greatest office version with this distro. More importantly the fixes and patches are backported. The first thing an administrator would do is to apply all the updates before deploying. In fact every administrated is strongly advised to update. The difference between the point releases say 6.0 and 6.1 is like service packs of other products. For example a technology preview (say XFS filesystem) in 6.0 may be production ready by 6.3. I am quoting XFS as an example only. read the release notes. The update process is fairly well tested and runs smooth almost all the time. Rarely it breaks the running system. Most Security patches (CVA), bugs, issues are handled upstream by redhat. So in you scenario, I would try to ssh into the machine after booting into level 3 and do an "yum update" After that if you find problems, Centos list is always there -- sombody there might have faced the same problem as you have. If you are into paid support from redhat, they are the first one to be contacted. Many members in that list are managing hundred and some thousands of centos instances. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
