There are several issues with kernels below the current. (Geez. I
never expected to hear myself telling folks I had to go to the latest
and greatest kernel instead of one that someone else tested!). We found
that kerlnel 2.4.6 has significant improvements over the older kernels.
Gerry
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Pete Pokrandt wrote:
>
> In a previous message to me, you wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Pete Pokrandt wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to upgrade to 7.1 and kernel 2.4.x but I'm a little worried about
> >> progs like wxp and others not working after the upgrade. That machine
> >> uses wxp quite extensively to generate web products for our weather
> >> page.
> >
> >Do it, with the very latest 7.1 kernel and patches Redhat offers. It has
> >a LOT fewer memory leaks and is more stable, so I have found.
> >Although it was a pain to install (mainly because of our then-slow
> >Internet connection), it is well worth it. But do note that inetd is no
> >longer used...xinetd is by default. So, you'll need to use hosts.allow to
> >open up sendmail, McIDAS ADDE, and anything else you want to open. It is
> >more secure than inetd, from what I can tell. There's one other
> >significant change, but I can't remember what it is offhand. Anyway, I
> >think you'll like it. Go for it!
> >
> >
>
> Gilbert,
>
> I agree, it's pretty solid. I'm running 7.1 on my desktop machine,
> been meaning to do some testing of unidata software here but just
> haven't gotten a round tuit.. Are you running any wxp stuff under
> 7.1, any issues?
>
> Pete
>
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Gerry Creager
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Texas A&M University
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