On 5/12/2010 2:48 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:27:56PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> [root at sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp >> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin >> This system is not registered with RHN. >> RHN support will be disabled. >> Setting up Install Process >> Setting up repositories >> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Client is not a >> valid release or hasnt been released yet >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base >> > That's a RHEL5 box from the looks of it, but from a follow-up > post of yours /etc/redhat-release says it's centos. The two > are mutually exclusive. Also, /etc/redhat-release is a simple > text file that can be made to say anything so it's not a great > source of proper identification. > > What does "rpm -q centos-release" say? > > > > > John > Thanks for responding john, This is what i get from the output of the command that you had asked for: [root at sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release package centos-release is not installed Also i found that there is a file named as redhat-release.bak in the /etc directory , doing a cat on it gives the following output: [root at sc-devld-1 etc]# cat redhat-release.bak Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5 (Tikanga) Thanks Jatin