[CentOS] Scalix install on CentOS

Thu Mar 2 21:19:06 UTC 2006
James Gagnon <jamesg at nucleus.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Will McDonald
Sent: March 2, 2006 2:11 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Scalix install on CentOS

On 02/03/06, James Gagnon <jamesg at nucleus.com> wrote:
>> I read on the list here not to long ago a work around for the following
>> error on CentOS for installing the scalix mail server.
>>
>> Error: unsupported OS release: CentOS release 4.2 (Final) on x86_64
>>
>> Someone posted a fix where you could edit a file changing the name of the
>>OS
>> or something to fix this.  Anyone remember which file it was I could edit
>> and what I needed to edit it too in order to make this install work?
>>
> It was probably to change /etc/redhat-release to read...
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)
>
> Backup /etc/redhat-release...
>
> cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.`date -I`
>
> Then edit it and add the string above, install your package and then
> switch back.
>
> Will.

Exactly what I was looking for... Thanks Will!  =)

James