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)[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 寫道：
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主旨: [CentOS] Faking RHEL with CentOS
收件者: "'CentOS mailing list'" <[email protected]>
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.
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