-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/15 15:17, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote: >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Devin Reade >> >> The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you >> can probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the >> same on RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases), >> however your 3rd party vendor may refuse to support you at all if >> you're using something that's not on their supported platforms >> list. > > Hehehe, for what it's worth, I encountered one of those edge cases > a few years ago. Dell OMSA, at least in the days of Centos 4, was > distributed as a self-extracting binary, that would read the > contents of /etc/redhat-release and compare it against a list of > predefined strings, and then refused to operate. The workaround was > to hack /etc/redhat-release. > > But anyway. That's pretty unusual. Thanks... > IBM do something similar with GPFS. You have to tell it you are using RHEL when you are on CentOS. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWQ7imAAoJEAF3yXsqtyBlRR4QAOTu6Fr3iqOtCaffdnt9dkjY 5B2z13vjvwzYgDXWl8T8tXeGCzOHP/mk2YY92GI7wDZrGf6+l88R8f0dkxWSLpyw wbG44VlLa5dXtLPQyi+RCzq6YFMaDrsdTMDGzgqmI/kTu5RQ7EDJuv/BzpDyZ7lE Na+WwnHM70WgfzPQCRIVno5/LJPQlZxYEZKNBRwcaMzzTNSZFQrkM3Jy+WrAlgqu 9VxAqs3T2HLggxYfIqlBhihdYoDdEzMxcN+YVJYzqxoyzGnGnt4gSs8UI9WoNY3T YzkfjJwBL7o3Nbq9UJbJaL/ArtxAKfZNfdzS+d816kuPR49zYNONGHenKQR7nB7+ YgOU7uOrrVG8QYt1tFfvM3Z61IwbPPrlJRIHx4/WZlGVlG4jb15N90KunXjLxdTG CawIU3iVAtN3vzb2k7rSPfCme2A1gpnYYeFKTnsTqJ4uHKEcG4q5wvcmU4Bdmmsz HajBYYOklHHTCOzEhPgeQRGGUXTFzPXygzXodet1m/DSJR95Bqfp1gNuqAL1mqe/ I6mhan1suowvluONhBitDCjfgU5fRPP7xwTyOlk79dpvYr+aAC2QqmGAMSWo03JP RlO+SEt1+C2hw3LaEGcOBnolRhkVDVu7gqM8H34UsoVXXkcEennGjg6MdQwuZuSu RoMnMq+Plwmoip9kOQQi =HcSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----