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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? What is good? Post 303003645 by bakunin on Monday 18th of September 2017 01:51:02 PM

09-18-2017

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Originally Posted by hicksd8

@Bakunin......So did this bank run SLES without a paid support contract?

Yes, of course. "SLES" is for "SuSE Linux Enterprise System" - basically SuSE with less options but with a high price so that big business can "buy" the good.

They have i.e. from SLES 11 to SLES 12 dropped the real ksh93 from their repository and now have some "pdksh" under the name of "ksh" (which you only find out if you are willing to follow a symlink pointing to a symlink pointing to a.... - and of course by seeing your ksh scripts fail) and they also dropped ext4 and ext2 and ext in favour of ext3 without announcement (try updating a system from SLES 11 to SLES 12 and half of your filesystems might be missing without notice) - but, hey, they are charging a lot of money for that, so it must be good, no?

Sorry for some traces of sarcasm in my diatribe its a leftover from applying "common sense" (actually not part of ITIL) to systems administration.

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