Hey, The last time I built the RPM's for DRDB, two RPM's were generated. One was the toolset, the other was the kernel module. On systems that were running custom or older kernels, I would have to rebuild the RPM on those machines so that the kernel version numbers matched properly. Make sense? On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080318/41828e07/attachment-0005.html>