yeah, I actually had bookmarked your Howto when it came out on the list, it was perfect timing since last week we had given the go-ahead to do the full change-over to 64-bit centos, migrating away from Whitebox 32-bit. our nagios setup was one of the keys, and the existence of the howto assured we'd be OK. still incorporating alot of the tips in it to future endeavours... -karlski > karl at klxsystems.net wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running an Opteron 64 bit server, and in an effort to re-join it to >> my >> nagios monitoring, I have tried the install nagios via Yum. >> >> When I type: >> >> yum install nagios, or nagios-nrpe, or nagios-plugins, I get: >> >> "Nothing to do". as output. >> >> In wanting to add the DAG repository to my machine, the documentation >> i've >> come across seems vague. >> >> Can someone advise me on either of these issues? >> >> I have come across the following HOWTO, but it kind of jumps around a >> bit, >> and the if/else logic is too hard to decipher. >> >> http://www.maxsworld.org/?page_id=115 >> >> Any help is most appreciated... > > I apologize for my how-to not being very detailed about setting up Dag's > repo, but it was intentionally geared toward Nagios, not Dag. I simply > create a dag.repo file which looks like: > > [dag] > name=Dag RPM Repository For Red Hat Enterprise Linux > baseurl=http://dag.atrpms.net/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ > http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ > > http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag > http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag > enabled=0 > gpgcheck=1 > > I don't believe this is the preferred way to load Dag's packages, > however, thus the reason I mention to refer to the documentation for Dag > in the how-to. > > I believe Dag's how-to for setting up access to his repo is to use > apt-get. So you install things this way, then substitute the "apt-get" > command for yum. > > Max > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >