From tmattox at gmail.com Thu Jul 1 17:35:49 2004 From: tmattox at gmail.com (Tim Mattox) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:35:49 -0400 Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot In-Reply-To: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412DAC@ccc2003.4cd.net> References: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412DAC@ccc2003.4cd.net> Message-ID: Hello Milen, On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:57:04 -0700, Fong, Milen wrote: [snip] >Problem is that when I try to have other nodes PXE boot I get the following message on the slave node. I followed the steps from the HowTo from www.warewulf-cluster.org site. > > Client IP: 10.1.0.1 Mask: 255.252.0.0 > DHCP IP: 10.0.0.1 > Gateway IP: 10.0.0.1 > TFTP. > PXE-T02: Access Denied > PXE-E3c: TFTP Error - Access Violation > PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM Hmm, it looks like either the tftpd isn't configured correctly, the eb-[whatever].zpxe file isn't globally readable, or maybe the dell's PXE is one of the "broken" ones that I've heard about. Can you post an "ls -laR /tftpboot" from the server, as well as "chkconfig --list tftp" Are there any relevant error messages in the server's /var/log/messages pertaining to the tftp? Please post a snippet including every line from the DHCPDISCOVER onwards. > Is there some access privileges I need to assign? The wwmaster.initiate script should have taken care of setting up the tftp, so the likely thing is that your eb-[whatever].zpxe file isn't readable. -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ From geoff at galitz.org Fri Jul 2 11:43:58 2004 From: geoff at galitz.org (Geoff Galitz) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:43:58 -0700 Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot In-Reply-To: References: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412DAC@ccc2003.4cd.net> Message-ID: Greetings, The error below is indicative of incorrect file permissions on the tftpboot directory or files therein. -geoff On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:35 PM, Tim Mattox wrote: > Hello Milen, > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:57:04 -0700, Fong, Milen > wrote: > [snip] >> Problem is that when I try to have other nodes PXE boot I get the > following message on the slave node. I followed the steps from the > HowTo from www.warewulf-cluster.org site. >> >> Client IP: 10.1.0.1 Mask: 255.252.0.0 >> DHCP IP: 10.0.0.1 >> Gateway IP: 10.0.0.1 >> TFTP. >> PXE-T02: Access Denied >> PXE-E3c: TFTP Error - Access Violation >> PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM > > Hmm, it looks like either the tftpd isn't configured correctly, the > eb-[whatever].zpxe file isn't globally readable, or maybe the dell's > PXE is one of the "broken" ones that I've heard about. > Can you post an "ls -laR /tftpboot" from the server, > as well as "chkconfig --list tftp" > > Are there any relevant error messages in the server's > /var/log/messages pertaining to the tftp? Please post a snippet > including every line from the DHCPDISCOVER onwards. > >> Is there some access privileges I need to assign? > > The wwmaster.initiate script should have taken care of > setting up the tftp, so the likely thing is that your > eb-[whatever].zpxe > file isn't readable. > -- > Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ > _______________________________________________ > cAos mailing list > cAos at caosity.org > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > > http://www.galitz.org From gravesricharde at yahoo.com Mon Jul 5 15:30:47 2004 From: gravesricharde at yahoo.com (Rick Graves) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [cAos] Re: YUM updates In-Reply-To: <20040705120001.12950.87001.Mailman@caos1.caosity.org> Message-ID: <20040705223047.89079.qmail@web14713.mail.yahoo.com> Hey, > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > all the latest patches is to run: > # yum update There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM updates every day. There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu= Rick From jn at it.swin.edu.au Mon Jul 5 16:08:40 2004 From: jn at it.swin.edu.au (John Newbigin) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:08:40 +1000 Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] Re: YUM updates In-Reply-To: <1089067652.24871.4.camel@binkley> References: <20040705223047.89079.qmail@web14713.mail.yahoo.com> <1089067652.24871.4.camel@binkley> Message-ID: <40E9DF78.9090608@it.swin.edu.au> seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 15:30 -0700, Rick Graves wrote: > >>Hey, >> >> >>>The easy way to make sure you are up to date with >>>all the latest patches is to run: >>># yum update >> >>There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM >>updates every day. >> >>There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: >> >>http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu= >> > > > and for the paranoid among you. > > you can use yum check-update to display the updates that should take > place from cron, if there are no updates, nothing will be outputted. check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. That way you get an email which indicates the new packages and you can then test & deploy at your leisure. When it comes time to install on your other machines, the patches are already local. John. > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin From gravesricharde at yahoo.com Tue Jul 6 05:59:47 2004 From: gravesricharde at yahoo.com (Rick Graves) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 05:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [cAos] Re: cron job madness In-Reply-To: <20040706120001.24086.82769.Mailman@caos1.caosity.org> Message-ID: <20040706125947.42245.qmail@web14712.mail.yahoo.com> Hey, > check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. So must one have your own local repository to avoid being labeled as a madman? In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find this? Just curious. Rick From jn at it.swin.edu.au Tue Jul 6 18:38:57 2004 From: jn at it.swin.edu.au (John Newbigin) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:38:57 +1000 Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] Re: cron job madness In-Reply-To: <20040706125806.46352.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040706125806.46352.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40EB5431.1060304@it.swin.edu.au> I am not trying to start a flame war here, just share my thoughts on what I think a responsible system administrator should do before installing new software on a live server. Rick Graves wrote: > Hey, > > >>check-update sounds better than putting yum update > > in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! > > Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? I am not sure what you mean by THAT BAD. yum in centos-2 comes with a cron script which, when enabled will run "yum update" every day. This IMHO is bad so I made sure that it is not enabled by default. > > >>Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your > > local patch repository. > > So must one have your own local repository to avoid > being labeled as a madman? I said better, not must. I recommend a local repository if you have more than one machine which will require the patches installed. I recommend having more that one machine so you can test the patches on a test box and not your live server. > > In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find > this? Just because RedHat did not write a book about it, does not make it bad. RedHat actually wrote a product "Proxy and Satellite Servers". And here are some of the reasons for not installing rpm updates without testing: 1. back up your config files. Even the best spec files can have mistakes. If you have modified a file which is not flagged as a config file then you might lose all your changes. Spend 10 seconds and tar up /etc (and perhaps run rpm -V and see if there is anything else which might have changed) 2. unwanted side effects. Some packages can create annoying side effects, particularly ones which have cron jobs. sa and mrtg have been known to do this. 3. bugs. Many redhat packages contain buggy software. Often the updates introduce more bugs than they fix. stunnel 3.26 for example appears to work at first but does not work reliably. Mozilla has cosmetic bugs which means that some users lose their mozilla icons. Small but can still cause users to ring and complain at 2:00 in the morning. Of course, the thing which makes a good administrator (or any other role) is the ability to evaluate other peoples suggestions and decide for themselves what they should do. John. > > Just curious. > > Rick > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin From mailing-lists at hughesjr.com Tue Jul 6 20:13:30 2004 From: mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:13:30 -0500 Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] Re: cron job madness In-Reply-To: <40EB5431.1060304@it.swin.edu.au> References: <20040706125806.46352.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> <40EB5431.1060304@it.swin.edu.au> Message-ID: <1089170010.8072.47.camel@Myth.home.local> I think what John is really trying to express is that applying patches from a cron job automatically to your production servers (without testing them first on a test platform) is a bad idea. I absolutely agree with him. What is a good idea is to test your updates on a test machine ... verify that everything works exactly like you want / expect ... then update a local yum Mirror with the patches. Since you only put tested updates on the local mirror ... you can run an automated yum on your production machines that do their updates from the local mirror ... and you then get tested only software automatically installed on your production machines. Exactly how I do it, and exactly how I recommend updates be pushed to production machines. I think to push untested patches from a public mirror to production machines is absolutely silly :). But I could be wrong. Johnny Hughes HughesJR.com On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 20:38, John Newbigin wrote: > I am not trying to start a flame war here, just share my thoughts on > what I think a responsible system administrator should do before > installing new software on a live server. > > Rick Graves wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > >>check-update sounds better than putting yum update > > > > in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! > > > > Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > I am not sure what you mean by THAT BAD. yum in centos-2 comes with a > cron script which, when enabled will run "yum update" every day. This > IMHO is bad so I made sure that it is not enabled by default. > > > > > >>Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your > > > > local patch repository. > > > > So must one have your own local repository to avoid > > being labeled as a madman? > I said better, not must. I recommend a local repository if you have > more than one machine which will require the patches installed. I > recommend having more that one machine so you can test the patches on a > test box and not your live server. > > > > In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find > > this? > Just because RedHat did not write a book about it, does not make it bad. > RedHat actually wrote a product "Proxy and Satellite Servers". > > And here are some of the reasons for not installing rpm updates without > testing: > 1. back up your config files. Even the best spec files can have > mistakes. If you have modified a file which is not flagged as a config > file then you might lose all your changes. Spend 10 seconds and tar up > /etc (and perhaps run rpm -V and see if there is anything else which > might have changed) > 2. unwanted side effects. Some packages can create annoying side > effects, particularly ones which have cron jobs. sa and mrtg have been > known to do this. > 3. bugs. Many redhat packages contain buggy software. Often the > updates introduce more bugs than they fix. stunnel 3.26 for example > appears to work at first but does not work reliably. Mozilla has > cosmetic bugs which means that some users lose their mozilla icons. > Small but can still cause users to ring and complain at 2:00 in the morning. > > Of course, the thing which makes a good administrator (or any other > role) is the ability to evaluate other peoples suggestions and decide > for themselves what they should do. > > John. > > > > > Just curious. > > > > Rick > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at caosity.org > > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20040706/e958520b/attachment.html From caosity at tomseeley.co.uk Wed Jul 7 09:18:02 2004 From: caosity at tomseeley.co.uk (Tom Seeley) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:18:02 +0100 Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] Re: cron job madness In-Reply-To: <1089170010.8072.47.camel@Myth.home.local> References: <20040706125806.46352.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> <40EB5431.1060304@it.swin.edu.au> <1089170010.8072.47.camel@Myth.home.local> Message-ID: <1089217082.40ec223a8d115@www.karenhudson.co.uk> In such scenarios, what do the members of this list normally do about restarts? ie I would normally restart apache if I were upgrading it or any of its componants. Unless I'm missing something, yum doesn't provide the logic to auto restart affected services, which is why I personally don't turn on auto-updating facilities. Thoughts/comments/suggestions? Tom. Quoting Johnny Hughes : > I think what John is really trying to express is that applying patches > from a cron job automatically to your production servers (without > testing them first on a test platform) is a bad idea. I absolutely > agree with him. > > What is a good idea is to test your updates on a test machine ... verify > that everything works exactly like you want / expect ... then update a > local yum Mirror with the patches. Since you only put tested updates on > the local mirror ... you can run an automated yum on your production > machines that do their updates from the local mirror ... and you then > get tested only software automatically installed on your production > machines. > > Exactly how I do it, and exactly how I recommend updates be pushed to > production machines. > > I think to push untested patches from a public mirror to production > machines is absolutely silly :). But I could be wrong. > > > Johnny Hughes > HughesJR.com > > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 20:38, John Newbigin wrote: > > > I am not trying to start a flame war here, just share my thoughts on > > what I think a responsible system administrator should do before > > installing new software on a live server. > > > > Rick Graves wrote: > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > >>check-update sounds better than putting yum update > > > > > > in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! > > > > > > Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > > I am not sure what you mean by THAT BAD. yum in centos-2 comes with a > > cron script which, when enabled will run "yum update" every day. This > > IMHO is bad so I made sure that it is not enabled by default. > > > > > > > > >>Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your > > > > > > local patch repository. > > > > > > So must one have your own local repository to avoid > > > being labeled as a madman? > > I said better, not must. I recommend a local repository if you have > > more than one machine which will require the patches installed. I > > recommend having more that one machine so you can test the patches on a > > test box and not your live server. > > > > > > In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find > > > this? > > Just because RedHat did not write a book about it, does not make it bad. > > RedHat actually wrote a product "Proxy and Satellite Servers". > > > > And here are some of the reasons for not installing rpm updates without > > testing: > > 1. back up your config files. Even the best spec files can have > > mistakes. If you have modified a file which is not flagged as a config > > file then you might lose all your changes. Spend 10 seconds and tar up > > /etc (and perhaps run rpm -V and see if there is anything else which > > might have changed) > > 2. unwanted side effects. Some packages can create annoying side > > effects, particularly ones which have cron jobs. sa and mrtg have been > > known to do this. > > 3. bugs. Many redhat packages contain buggy software. Often the > > updates introduce more bugs than they fix. stunnel 3.26 for example > > appears to work at first but does not work reliably. Mozilla has > > cosmetic bugs which means that some users lose their mozilla icons. > > Small but can still cause users to ring and complain at 2:00 in the > morning. > > > > Of course, the thing which makes a good administrator (or any other > > role) is the ability to evaluate other peoples suggestions and decide > > for themselves what they should do. > > > > John. > > > > > > > > Just curious. > > > > > > Rick > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at caosity.org > > > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Tom Seeley From mickw at mbwcomputing.net Thu Jul 8 03:37:01 2004 From: mickw at mbwcomputing.net (Michael Watson) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:37:01 +1000 Subject: [cAos] Cinch SATA Problem Message-ID: <200407081037.i68AbNO23608@mail.mbwcomputing.net> Using the current Build of Cinch (2.0.3) Trying to install cAos-1.0 onto an Intel D865G Motherboard. ICH5 SATA Support. Cinch Boot disk boot successfully until it starts detecting IDE devices. Halts on detection of HDE (SATA Seagate Hard Drive). CentOS 3.0 Detects Device as sda and boots / installs successfully. Michael Watson --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 5/07/2004 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20040708/80575b6c/attachment.html From gravesricharde at yahoo.com Thu Jul 8 08:20:08 2004 From: gravesricharde at yahoo.com (Rick Graves) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [cAos] Re: more cron job madness In-Reply-To: <20040708120001.15087.21102.Mailman@caos1.caosity.org> Message-ID: <20040708152008.41858.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Hey, UNCLE! I added a warning to the YUM HowTo. I will also look into this further, and may be back with one or more proposed solutions. Rick From mailing-lists at hughesjr.com Thu Jul 8 11:12:21 2004 From: mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:12:21 -0500 Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] Re: cron job madness In-Reply-To: <1089217082.40ec223a8d115@www.karenhudson.co.uk> References: <20040706125806.46352.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> <40EB5431.1060304@it.swin.edu.au> <1089170010.8072.47.camel@Myth.home.local> <1089217082.40ec223a8d115@www.karenhudson.co.uk> Message-ID: <1089310341.28592.5.camel@Myth.home.local> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:18, Tom Seeley wrote: > In such scenarios, what do the members of this list normally do about restarts? > ie I would normally restart apache if I were upgrading it or any of its > componants. Unless I'm missing something, yum doesn't provide the logic to auto > restart affected services, which is why I personally don't turn on auto-updating > facilities. I read the log and then restart services manually. (For workstations, I just reboot .... for servers I manually restart services). Most items are not services/daemons ... some are. Johnny Hughes HughesJR.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20040708/7777ed14/attachment.html From greg at runlevelzero.net Thu Jul 8 12:52:03 2004 From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:52:03 -0700 Subject: [cAos] Cinch SATA Problem In-Reply-To: <200407081037.i68AbNO23608@mail.mbwcomputing.net> References: <200407081037.i68AbNO23608@mail.mbwcomputing.net> Message-ID: <20040708195203.GA5297@runlevelzero.net> cAos-1 uses the 2.4 kernel, and the stock 2.4 kernel (as of 2.4.25 IIRC) does not incorporate libata, thus cAos-1 and cinch does not support SATA. cAos-2 should support it just fine when it gets released because it uses the 2.6 kernel. BTW, RHEL3 (and thus Centos3) has the SATA back-ports. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:37:01PM +1000, Michael Watson told me: > > Using the current Build of Cinch (2.0.3) > > Trying to install cAos-1.0 onto an Intel D865G Motherboard. ICH5 SATA > Support. > > Cinch Boot disk boot successfully until it starts detecting IDE devices. > Halts on detection of HDE (SATA Seagate Hard Drive). > CentOS 3.0 Detects Device as sda and boots / installs successfully. > > > Michael Watson > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 5/07/2004 > -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/ From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Jul 8 13:04:44 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:04:44 -0700 Subject: [cAos] Cinch SATA Problem In-Reply-To: <20040708195203.GA5297@runlevelzero.net> References: <200407081037.i68AbNO23608@mail.mbwcomputing.net> <20040708195203.GA5297@runlevelzero.net> Message-ID: <20040708200444.GT25508@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Greg Kurtzer (greg at runlevelzero.net): > cAos-1 uses the 2.4 kernel, and the stock 2.4 kernel (as of 2.4.25 IIRC) does > not incorporate libata, thus cAos-1 and cinch does not support SATA. FYI: libata is very helpful for SATA support, but not essential for all SATA chipsets. Some people are able to get by on Intel ICH5 chipsets using some 2.4.x kernels' piix drivers (from the regular drivers/ide set), for example. More at: "Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/ -- Cheers, Rick Moen Ban the Bomb. rick at linuxmafia.com Save the world for conventional warfare. From hamid at use-trade.com Sun Jul 11 03:25:24 2004 From: hamid at use-trade.com (Abd El-Hameed Mohammed (Use-trade.com)) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:25:24 +0300 Subject: [cAos] php-mcal Message-ID: <044e01c46731$62367110$2e0a0a51@hamid> Hi, How to add mcrypt and mcal support to php-4.3.2-11.ent? I am running CentOS 3.1 Hameed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20040711/23bf0dd1/attachment.html From mej at caosity.org Thu Jul 15 12:05:12 2004 From: mej at caosity.org (Michael Jennings) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:05:12 -0400 Subject: [cAos] Package Maintainers Message-ID: <20040715190512.GD15433@kainx.org> For those who may not have heard, package maintainers for caos 2.x will require an account on our CVS server. 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KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "[Heather Graham] is the new I-would-run-over-my-best-friend-in-a- hummer-to-get-next-to-her girl." -- Claude Nobler From jmyost at ameritech.net Thu Jul 15 15:59:34 2004 From: jmyost at ameritech.net (Joshua Yost) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:59:34 -0500 Subject: [cAos] centOS 3.0 and Cold Fusion Message-ID: I am considering 3.0 for a server I will be running that requires cold fusion MX - the tech specs say CFMX is all good for RH AS 3.0 - since I am newer to this - is there any reason the installer and server should have any problems then with CentOS 3? - I'm trying to save 1500.00 here on a non mission critical server and if I can avoid RH I will. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! From charlieb-caos at budge.apana.org.au Thu Jul 15 18:18:31 2004 From: charlieb-caos at budge.apana.org.au (Charlie Brady) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:18:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [cAos] centOS 3.0 and Cold Fusion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Joshua Yost wrote: > I am considering 3.0 for a server I will be running that requires cold > fusion MX - the tech specs say CFMX is all good for RH AS 3.0 - since I > am newer to this - is there any reason the installer and server should > have any problems then with CentOS 3? - I'm trying to save 1500.00 here > on a non mission critical server and if I can avoid RH I will. If you wish to save money, why are you using Cold Fusion MX? (Have you looked at Apache::ASP? Mason?) Anyway, if you need to lie to a software installer, I'm sure you can. Most likely thing you'd need to do would be to adjust contents of /etc/redhat-release. --- Charlie