Routine Maintenance On RH4

[Durango]

All,

I`m still new, curious and overwhelmed with the Rdhat 4 as i`m used to be more on other platform. Anybody can advise the routine maintenance that need to be done on the Redhat 4 server? Thanks guys.

[Rubberman]

I assume you mean RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4, and not the old Red Hat 4? As for maintenance, it depends entirely on what you are doing with the system. You won't need to do disc defragmentation, but you will want to do updates on some sort of regular basis. Get familiar with the package manager and learn how to update the system. If you have vendor-supplied drivers for hardware, such as RAID arrays, video, etc, then you need to learn how to reinstall those when you update the kernel, at least for some of them.

[Mayank281]

Always check the running processess using "top" command.
Kill all unwanted process which are consuming the memory. Check for /var/log/messages for the problem.
Keep checking the disk space.
if possible do the minimum hardening..