Once upon a time, Tom Sightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I knew somebody would say this, and Bugzilla is great, there's no doubt
> about it, but it's biggest problem is that it's not vetted in any way.

I have tried to use RH support for actual RHEL problems, filing Bugzilla
entries only for Fedora problems (or for RFE-type RHEL things).
However, my experience with RH support has been rather poor; my boss
asked "so why do we pay for this" after one recent issue.  I don't think
I've actually had a solution or fix provided by Red Hat yet (I had to
find my own work-arounds for every issue I found).

One particular problem we had was a kernel deadlock in RHEL 4, and the
solution was "upgrade to RHEL 5".  That's not really a solution when the
RH policy is that you should really wipe/reload the system (rather than
upgrade in place) to upgrade.  I chose RHEL (and got my company to pay
for RHEL) so that I didn't have to reload systems for a long time;
reloading half a dozen shared and dedicated web hosting servers with
over a thousand web sites is NOT on my short-term to-do list.

Maybe I've just been spoiled; my only other OS support experience is
with DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 Unix.  I have found several bugs over the
years, and they've been on top of them (debugging with us, sending us
customer-specific patches for testing, etc.).  We had only one long
running case with them, which ended up being sales/SEs told us
TruCluster could handle something it could not.

-- 
Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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