kernel not detecting 'smp'

[Net Llama!]

On 02/12/04 15:06, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> Hi
> 
>       We have installed redhat9.0 at our server.. We have registered
> with redhat up2date...
> 
>       Now two points to discuss:
> 
> 1.  i have upgraded the kernel with 'kernel-smp-2.4.20-28.9.i586.rpm'

Upgraded how?

> 
>     but when i am doing 'uname a' i am not seeing that the kernel is
> smp..
> 
> I am not getting why it is not showing smp,  
> We have one other server, same configuration , we upgraded the server in the
> same
> way, there we are seiing as follows:
> 
> [root at server2 swapna]# uname -a
> Linux server2 2.4.20-28.9smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 13:37:36 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> _________________________________________________________
> 
> What is the reason if anybody point me out , it will be really appreciated...

If not an SMP box?  Hardware problems?  Have you checked your logs for 
errors?  The same question I ask everytime you report a bizarre problem.

> 2.  By default update with up2date(with rpm)  , we are gettng PHP version
> php-4.2.2-17.2  and httpd  httpd-2.0.40-21.9
> 
>     Now we need the php version 4.3.4 as we are migrating the sites to this
> server
> and those sites are using php 4.3.4..
> 
>     So if we install the php4.3.4 from source then do we need to install the
> source of httpd also ..

If you want it to have PHP support.

> 
>     When we will do 'up2date' next time , then do u think this manual 
> installation will be a problem/spoiled because there are lots of libraries
> which will
> be upgraded by the 'up2date' rpm....

Sure, unless you add php and apache to the exclusion list.  See the man 
page for up2date.

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