On Wednesday 24 October 2007 07:43:01 pm MontyRee wrote:
But I don't use rpm based kernel which installed automatically
from the CD
but downloading the kernel source from the
kernel.org site and compiles the
kernel.
Part of the value that a distribution provides is coordinating all the pieces
to work together. When you do your own upgrades outside of the distribution,
you have to know a whole lot about how the whole thing works.
If you want cutting edge system, I recommend going to F8t3 also known as
rawhide and F8 as soon as that is released. All the pieces are coordinated so
they work together. If you want something recent and very stable, look to
RHEL5 or its derivatives. If you want something well tested and stable, use
RHEL4 or its derivatives.
But you cannot mix kernels between RHEL4 & 5. Even replacing the audit daemon
might not be enough. I suspect you will have to recompile everything that
depends on libaudit.
So I can use 2.6.19 or 2.6.23, but I don't know which menu should
be selected to use full auditd function?
In recent kernels, I think the setting you mentioned in the first email is all
you need.
Surely, I will use RHEL 5 based system sooner, but I must do kernel
compile
for some reason.
I really don't know if you can mix 2.6.23 with RHEL5. There are big changes in
hotplug, for example, and other things that the packages shipped with RHEL5
(udev/hal) might not work with. You'll have to try it to find out. But
another reason to stick with a distribution's kernel is that not even the
2.6.23 kernel has all the audit pieces that the RHEL5.1 kernel has. They are
merging with the 2.6.24 kernel.
you mean File systems ---> Filesystem in Userspace support?
Nope. I was talking about the actual RHEL4 kernel, not 2.6.23.
Good Luck...
-Steve