Oops, I realised after I said it.
The only time I used yum on RHEL 4 was to upgrade it to CentOS 4. CentOS 4, of course, ships with yum. I've currently got 4 CentOS 4.6 boxes, 2 CentOS 5.1, and 1 RHEL 4 box, so python 2.3 support would still be a plus. Phil -- Phil Randal Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -----Original Message----- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 May 2008 10:40 To: Randal, Phil Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts Randal, Phil wrote: > The latest version now works fine on my CentOS 5.1 boxes. > > Now all we need is a version which works with python 2.3 so I can > check our CentOS / RHEL 4 boxes. > > Cheers, > > Phil I have a couple of RHEL 4 boxes too but since they didn't ship with yum this didn't seem so relevant. I tried putting yum on one of them a couple of years back and I have to say it was an absolutely awful experience. I had done a relatively minimal install and was then tryied installing yum both by rpm and by source install, both of which landed me in a very bad and messed up circular dependency hell that I couldn't solve without breaking some other stuff. I mean I tried everything, and that was the last time I ever tried a minimal redhat installation (minimal == lower attack surface and all that best practice stuff which redhat never seemed to get into - otherwise I have to go round disabling so much junk on their systems), a very poor choice for tight control and maintainability compared to gentoo or debian (but I digress). Did you install yum manually on RHEL 4? Do you use this as the primary package management tool on RHEL 4 and does it receive security updates? I would have thought not since RedHat only shipped this in version 5 which is why the plugin makes no effort for previous versions of RHEL... but I could be wrong. I figure that upgrades to the version 5 with it's first half-decent package management system using yum by default will solve this, but if anyone wants to correct me or share their experience, feel free and I may reconsider. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
