[Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LVM and cciss

[Dan Kolb]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> If it's a production system then you need to be prepared fo rhte fact 
> that _someone else_ will need to work on it at some point.

Which is why you keep good documentation of what's installed, no?

> When apache needs upgrading, you do not want that someone to spend hours 
> guessing which modules got installed and, indeed, where they got 
> installed.  Not to mention that custom hard coded default home directory 
> for users, oh and also the seperate root account you created for suexec.

Which is why you keep good.....

> Meanwhile in the debian universe:  "apt-get update; apt-get install 
> apache". Done.

Which automatically installs all the modules you had before? Or will you 
still need to know which modules you'll need to install?

Slackware can be an extremely maintainable system, given a small amount 
of discipline about it. And if you really want your fancy package 
manglement tools, you can get slapt-get for it, which makes it nice and 
easy to install and upgrade software, and fairly easy to upgrade between 
main releases (given a couple of caveats).

Dan


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