On 5/12/2010 3:11 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:55:49PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> [root at sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release >> package centos-release is not installed >> > Not CentOS :) > > >> 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) >> > Something *very* fishy is going on. In my opinion the > state of that box can not be guaranteed and it should > be reinstalled with either RHEL as it apparently originally > was or as CentOS. > > > > > John > I found a workaround. tweaked some files and got it working. My intension on this box was to install the net-snmp agent and make it work. I tried using the source tarballs and rpms but never succeeded in installing it. Even yum did not work but then i did the following steps to get it working. I am not sure whether they are the right way to do it but i got it working for me. 1. Copied the CentOS-Base.repo file from other CentOS boxes on the box where i was facing troubles making yum work. 2. Opened the copied .repo file and edited it as shown below: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os baseurl=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Then when i issued the command: yum install net-snmp , the net-snmp package got installed and now i am monitoring it using snmp. Thanks Everyone who gave support and clues in this regard. Thanks Jatin