On 5/12/2010 3:11 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:55:49PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote:
[root@sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release package centos-release is not installed
Not CentOS :)
Also i found that there is a file named as redhat-release.bak in the /etc directory , doing a cat on it gives the following output:
[root@sc-devld-1 etc]# cat redhat-release.bak Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5 (Tikanga)
Something *very* fishy is going on. In my opinion the state of that box can not be guaranteed and it should be reinstalled with either RHEL as it apparently originally was or as CentOS.
John
I found a workaround. tweaked some files and got it working. My intension on this box was to install the net-snmp agent and make it work. I tried using the source tarballs and rpms but never succeeded in installing it. Even yum did not work but then i did the following steps to get it working. I am not sure whether they are the right way to do it but i got it working for me.
1. Copied the CentOS-Base.repo file from other CentOS boxes on the box where i was facing troubles making yum work.
2. Opened the copied .repo file and edited it as shown below:
[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os baseurl=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
#released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
Then when i issued the command: yum install net-snmp , the net-snmp package got installed and now i am monitoring it using snmp.
Thanks Everyone who gave support and clues in this regard.
Thanks Jatin