Gary, thanks for the reply and info. Gary Richardson wrote: > I think the last time I did it, I got the tarball. I either did an > rpmbuild -ta on it, or there was an rpm target in the makefile. I didn't think of the rpmbuild was. I'll suggest that to him. I do rkhunter that way now and it works like a charm. Not sure what you mean by an rpm target in the makefile, though. > > Regardless, I ended up with two RPM's -- a kernel module and the > tools. On any systems that had different kernels, I had to recompile > to get the kernel module. Can you elaborate a little on the last sentence above, please? Again, not sure if you are saying to do something after the rpmbuild or that you just used the resultant rpms. > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com > <mailto:campbell at cnpapers.com>> wrote: > > I'm going to have to be a little vague on this one, but hope I provide > enough to make the question clear. I'm not doing the work on this > server, a co-worker is, but I said I would ask for him. > > He is trying to get DRBD installed. He's using Centos 5.1 and the yum > repos, but is getting problems with things like the kernel, > drbd.so, and > the likes. All install fine, but I'm not sure he is getting the proper > kernel with the drbd stuff. Almost sounds like he needs a dev rpm from > somewhere because drbd.so isn't on the machine after installing the > RPMs. (Can't do the insmod drbd.so). > > Does anyone have a quick and easy(?) step by step to get it installed? > He'll figure out the config if he can get it installed properly. Right > now, he's running from source OK, but you all know the arguements for > source versus rpm. > > Thanks for any help. I'll try and get caught up on what he's doing to > better answer any questions presented. > > Steve Campbell > > Steve