Oracle wants to install YAST on RHEL

[Anthony Doyle]

My first response would be no and my second response would be why ? ... the why part is what I would use to respond to them with .... unless you know why they want it you can't work out if it's really needed just because someone has used a tool before doesn't make it acceptable to install on any server. Always remember if you're the sys admin your ultimately responsible for the server being usable and delivering what its suppose to. We have over 40 to 50 servers running oracle and we haven't installed yast on any of them.

Cheers
Anthony



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of fernando at lozano.eti.br
Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 12:44 PM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Oracle wants to install YAST on RHEL

Hi there,

I'd advise against using Yast. It's an all or nothing proposition: either you configure everything
through Yast, else Yast will erase changes you did manually to system configuration files the next
time someone uses Yast. Ast least it used to work this way years ago, the last time I administered a
SuSE server.


[]s, Fernando Lozano


> Our Red Hat systems are dedicated Oracle DB engines clustered with
> Oracle's RAC software.  The DBA administers via the Oracle Enterprise
> Manager GUI, which now wants to install Oracle's port of YAST.  It
> contains over a 100 .RPM modules.  From the packages.list, in sorted
> order:
>         aaa_base-9.1-*.rpm
>         autoyast2-installation-2.9.45-*.rpm
>         fillup-1.42-*.rpm
>         hwinfo-8.99-*.rpm
>         ldapcpplib-0.0.3-*.rpm
>         libxcrypt-2.1.90-*.rpm
>         liby2util-2.9.24-*.rpm
>         netcat-1.10-*.rpm
>         nmbstatus-1.11-*.rpm
>         perl-Config-Crontab-1.03-*.rpm
>         perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.02-*.rpm
>         perl-Digest-MD4-1.3-*.rpm
>         perl-gettext-1.01-*.rpm
>         perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.80-*.rpm
>         perl-X500-DN-0.28-*.rpm
>         powertweak-0.99.5-*.rpm
>         powertweak-extra-0.99.5-*.rpm
>         testutf8-1.0-*.rpm
>         xmset-1.2-*.rpm
>         yast2-2.9.75-*.rpm
>         yast2-bootloader-2.9.22-*.rpm
> yast2-ldap-client-2.9.29-*.rpm  \
>         yast2-control-center-2.9.11-*.rpm
>         yast2-core-2.9.94-*.rpm
>         yast2-country-2.9.24-*.rpm
>         yast2-dhcp-server-2.9.23-*.rpm
>         yast2-dns-server-2.9.24-*.rpm
>         ...
>         yast2-tune-2.9.22-*.rpm
>         yast2-update-2.9.27-*.rpm yast2-inetd-2.9.12-*.rpm
> yast2-network-2.9.57-*.rpm \
>         yast2-users-2.9.39-*.rpm yast2-pam-2.9.13-*.rpm
> yast2-security-2.9.14-*.rpm \
>         yast2-x11-2.9.11-*.rpm
>         yast2-xml-2.9.8-*.rpm
>
> Your opinions on adding YAST?
> I have no trashable systems and no bare-metal restore capabilities.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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