Robert Hanson wrote:
i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD???
confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components...
Development tools like gcc, on a server end platform ( specially something that is in production, internet facing, with public content - which a lot of CentOS machines tend to be ) - is usually considered a bad idea.
The system installed from the ServerCD shares its package tree with the main CentOS distro, so you should be able to use yum against the same repositories.