We've been running Universe on RH Linux for about a year and a half now,
and it's been pretty stable for us. We ported it from an HP-UX system
(10.20). Most of the changes revolved around scripts we had in place
(ftp's, printer drivers, etc.) We ran .../uv/bin/format.conv on all the
files. It's been pretty stable for us (at least as stable as the HP
system), and we could purchase a new system every year for what we were
paying for maint on the HP box. We are currently running on an IBM
xSeries 346, dual-processor server.
HTH
Drew
Jerry Banker wrote:
We are about to make the move and I have been testing the system along
side of our production system. I think this was a wise move. I have
the two networked together so it is easier to move accounts. We are
moving from Solaris 8 to RH AS 3, UV 9.6.2.3 to UV 10.1.12. Further
comments are in the text.
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- Are there issues when converting Universe data files from
Unix/Solaris OS to Linux?
I've found that you can either copy the files over and use fnuxi or
use uvbackup to create an image, copy that over then use uvrestore to
restore the file on the linux box. Both take about the same amount of
time. In either case the account will update when you first login to
it. If you had LONGNAMES ON you will have to do that after the update.
Make sure you check the &TEMP& file for any of your changed VOC entries.
- Is there difficulty getting printers to function properly on Linux?
We had to set up our laser printers on the Linux box to use raw data
instead of the drivers because of pcl coding we have on many of our
printouts.
- Are changes required to any scripts and/or cron daemons running
scripts on Linux?
You may have to use the -f (force) flag on cp, rm, and mv if you have
the commands in any programs, procs, or paragraphs otherwise it will
ask if you want to write over existing files.
- Has Linux proven to be more or less stable than Unix?
Can't say that I know the answer to the rest because we haven't run
full production yet.
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