Domino --- a doubt

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I can´t understand really which are the patches that i must install in my redhat 7.2 to have it working properly. Is that list of rpms for users running NIS only? If i am not running NIS and I have a redhat 7.2 installed in my server, can i install a Domino 6.0.2 without doing any modifications?

Thank you so much

Linux patch requirements

Starting with Domino 6, the Linux patches below are required for correct operation of the Domino server. IBM/Lotus realizes that additional patches may become publicly available following our initial certification testing, and we acknowledge that new updates may fix additional problems. You may wish to apply these newer patches as they become available.

Linux Red Hat 7.2

These patches are mandatory if a user is running NIS on their system, and supercede any other patch levels for a given system (i.e., glibc-2.2.4-24 supercedes glibc-2.2.4-19, therefore you only need to install the newer patch, not both). The NOTES_USESNIS variable is no longer needed with the following patches, and can be removed.

glibc-2.2.4-24.i686.rpm

glibc-common-2.2.4-24.i386.rpm

glibc-devel-2.2.4-24.i386.rpm

glibc-profile-2.2.4-24.i386.rpm

nscd-2.2.4-24.i386.rpm

kernel-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm

kernel-headers-2.4.9-21.i386.rpm

kernel-smp-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm

kernel-source-2.4.9-21.i386.rpm

modutils-2.4.13-0.7.1.i386.rpm

nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1.i386.rpm

wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20.i386.rpm

gdb-5.1-1.i386.rpm

glibc-2.2.4-19.3.i686.rpm

glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm

glibc-devel-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm

NOTE: The wu-ftpd patch is only required if you use it on your system. Additionally, with nfs-utils, you only need the SMP patch if you are using an SMP system.

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Subject: sounds like this is only required on servers with NIS installed

Domino is build on RedHat 7.2 so RH 7.2 is the best choice to make :wink:

Beside the standard installation you need to have the compatibility LIBs to get Domino up and running.

Sadly the checkos script is not yet reporting OS level patch requirements on Linux (it’s AIX and Solaris only).

But the readme gives you full details of patch requirements.

Below are some details about the NIS problems from the readme. So it really sounds like the patch is only needed if you run NIS.

Even it sounds like this is NIS only I would update anyway specially if you are running a SMP system. Those patches are important OS level patches which could prevent some other issues and they are fully tested and supported with Domino. I would go for it and install them. It will not harm but could help to prevent other problems (maybe even some which are not known yet). Don’t update to a later RH version. Those versions are not tested yet and unsupported.

Be aware that D6.5 will support only a later version and you need to update your OS to be fully supported.

Current planning for D6.5 is “RedHat AS 2.1 UP only / United Linux Powered by United Linux 1.0 Sp2”

Linux is not the only platform where some older versions are not supported any more (for example AIX 4.3.3 will disapear with D6.5). But the good news is we will get platform statistics for Linux with D6.5 :slight_smile:

(daniel.nashed@nashcom.de)

Linux - Need to set “NOTES_USESNIS = 1” to use NIS

There is a problem with NIS on Linux in that it is not threadsafe, and using it with Domino will most likely cause crashes and database corruption. However, we have a workaround for this issue which allows Domino to safely work with NIS.

If a Domino server is to be run on a machine using NIS, the user needs to set the variable NOTES_USESNIS to 1 in the notes.ini file within the data directory. When this flag is set, Domino calls the function “sethostent” to set the stayopen flag on all name lookups. By setting this flag, we are guaranteed that we only make open/close calls to /etc/hosts or the DNS/NIS servers once per process, and this allows us to workaround the NIS threadsafe bug by never doing multi-threaded open/close calls to these facilities.