On 5/12/2010 11:49 AM, John R Pierce wrote:

Jatin Davey wrote:

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Hi

I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being present there. So i googled a bit on adding the repositories and found the link:

http://www.osresources.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=6&...

thats some *really* bad advice. really really bad. undo everything yuou did there, and follow this instead... http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

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I follwed the link that you have given but in it the explanation is given assuming that the Base repo is already present in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory but in my box i dont have any files in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

So how do i add these basic needed repositories. In all my other boxes i do have it in the yum/repos.d directory. Please guide me in this regard.

Thanks Jatin

On 5/12/2010 12:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:18:59PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote:

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I follwed the link that you have given but in it the explanation is given assuming that the Base repo is already present in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory but in my box i dont have any files in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

So how do i add these basic needed repositories. In all my other boxes i do have it in the yum/repos.d directory. Please guide me in this regard.

You are running some VPS-incarnation of CentOS, aren't you?

Try the following link and follow the applicable steps:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver

					John

As per the link it says that the yum is broken but yum is working on my box , it gave me the following output when i try to install the net-snmp package.

[root@sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Client is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Thanks Jatin

On 5/12/2010 2:48 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:27:56PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote:

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[root@sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Client is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

That's a RHEL5 box from the looks of it, but from a follow-up post of yours /etc/redhat-release says it's centos. The two are mutually exclusive. Also, /etc/redhat-release is a simple text file that can be made to say anything so it's not a great source of proper identification.

What does "rpm -q centos-release" say?

					John

Thanks for responding john,

This is what i get from the output of the command that you had asked for:

[root@sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release package centos-release is not installed

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)

Thanks Jatin

On 5/12/2010 3:11 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:55:49PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote:

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[root@sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release package centos-release is not installed

Not CentOS :)

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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

On 5/12/2010 1:33 PM, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

Jatin Davey wrote:

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Hi

I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being present there. So i googled a bit on adding the repositories and found the link:

That sounds very much like you've actually installed RHEL and not CentOS.

You can look at /etc/redhat-release to see what you've actually installed.

-tgc

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This is what i get as the output when i check the release of my system:

[root@sc-devld-1 pluginconf.d]# cat /etc/*release CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

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