Starting to learn RHEL3.0 on ServerMatrix
The past few days have been interesting, as i’ve been using RHEL 3.0, and so far i’m neutrally happy. A few complaints:
RHEL 3.0 comes with apache 2.0 by default, as the ‘httpd’ package. While mod_perl 2.0 is still in development, this leaves some users out in the cold (i.e. bricolage users). RHEL mysql-server is in the “Extras” channel of up2date. Kind of a strange thing to put there.
A couple great things:
The manual for RHEL reveals the command ‘redhat-switch-mail’, which is an easy way to switch to postfix after installing the necessary packages via up2date --nox postfix.
The Client Authentication section of the Postgres 7.3 manual actually has a decent section now. I recall messing with <=7.2, and it was a nightmare that eventually ended in me giving up. This time, the examples are much more clear.
ServerMatrix support has been outstanding during this process. I’ve had many trouble tickets filed for little tasks here and there (DNS, etc.), and they’ve all been hit very quickly. The staff seems to poke around in the Forums very frequently as well, and has a great sense of humor.
I didn’t know about the up2date –nox syntax before this point, but now that i’m using it, it doesn’t seem too bad. I’m more inclined to stay as close to an up2date-managed system as possible, and i’ll post on my blog about whether it works out for me as time goes on.
