Yes. it will work on some softwares. I have been use this way several times and successfully "cheating" ORACLE DB installation and DELL OPMN installation. But it failed to "cheating" on "Veritas Netbackup" installation. --- 08/10/1 (星期三)，Sorin at Gmail <sorin.srbu at gmail.com> 寫道： 寄件者: Sorin at Gmail <sorin.srbu at gmail.com> 主旨: [CentOS] Faking RHEL with CentOS 收件者: "'CentOS mailing list'" <centos at centos.org> 日期: 2008 10 1 星期三 上午 9:53 Hi all, I'm looking to test out a solution with CentOS instead of our venerable RHEL3-servers. Some of the software we use and need, requires for it to run on RHEL. Figuring that CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL this should work anyway. I also found out using Google that many programs look in /etc/redhat-release file to check that the right OS is there. After checking the contents on a CentOS machine I have available, as well as one running RHEL3 and 4, my guess would be that adding the "correct" text in the redhat-release file on CentOS would enable picky software requiring RHEL to run in CentOS instead. >From CentOS /etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.2 (Final) >From RHEL3 /etc/redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 9) >From RHEL4 /etc/redhat-release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 7) Has anybody maybe actually done this already and can tell if it'd work? What other places may a software look into to check the computer runs the correct OS? Ideas and comments are welcome! TIA. -- Best Wishes Sorin --------------------------------------------- http://home-skynet.servehttp.com/ Proud member of TEAM OS/2. Mountainbiker [Kona Kilauea - Member of Equipe Les Cafards VTT] Motorcyclist [Honda VFR750F-'97] MCSE, MCP+I, MCP, A+ [Knowledge is power!] --------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ MotD: This is an adware tagline. Please visit our sponsors to continue helping the development of this tagline. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081001/7626f37c/attachment-0005.html>