I am pretty sure that they are shell scripts and they are looking for strings in /etc/redhat-release Can someone with RHEL post a real /etc/redhat-release for us too look at. IMHO, CentOS should provide a RedHat looking redhat-release and a centos specific centos-release. John. R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Hammond wrote: > >> I am trying to install the HP PSP on a CentOS 3.4 server but it keeps >> telling me, only on certain rpms mind you, >> that the OS is not supported. I have made the modifications to >> redhat-release which cleared up some of the initial >> errors I was having but not all. Where else would the rpms be getting >> the OS info from? Better yet, has anyone >> managed to get the Linux PSP to install on a CentOS box? > > > almost certainly it is looking for certain strings which it is not > finding. strace is your friend > > - Russ Herrold > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin