Preferred Distribution

[Damon Lambooy]

Daniel Maher wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of --[ UxBoD ]--
>> Sent: May 10, 2007 9:01 AM
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Preferred Distribution
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having to setup a couple of new mailservers where I am working on
>> contract at the moment, using Dell SC1435 rack mounts.  The problem is
>> that RedHat ES4 kernel is so old does not recognise the SAS RAID card.
>>
>> Now my question is should I get them to purchase RHES5, or go for either
>> CentOS or Fedora ?
>>
>> Personally I would use Gentoo or Ubuntu, but they are really *not* happy
>> in using either of them for a corporate system :(
>>     
>
> At my (reasonably large multi-national) company, we've started using CentOS for all of our new machines, and will likely continue to do so.  We don't need RedHat's telephone support, nor do we care to use up2date, ergo the benefits of using RedHat over CentOS are almost non-existent.  
>
> YMMV, of course - especially if you're at a smaller organisation where phone support might come in handy, or where you don't manage your own software repository.
>
> 0.02$
>
>
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>  °v°  Daniel Maher
> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
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> "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein.
>   
I am tring to install Mailscanner  4.59.4-2 on Fedora 7 test 4 but 
getting strange error about rpms not being installed.

[root at mailex MailScanner-4.59.4-2]# ./install.sh


Good. You have the patch command.

Good, you have /usr/src/redhat in place.

Good, unpackaged files will not break the build process.
Good, far-too-clever Perl requirements will be ignored.

Good, you appear to only have 1 copy of Perl installed.

I think you are running on RedHat Linux, Mandriva Linux or SuSE Linux.
You must have the following RPM packages installed before
you try and do anything else:
       binutils glibc-devel egcs make
You are missing at least 1 of these.
Please install them all
(Read the manuals if you do not know how to do this).
Then come back and run this install.sh script again.

Can anyone point me in the right direction I have installed all but egcs 
which i can't find in a current rpm disto.
has anyone else experienced any similar problems? or should I just wait 
until full version comes around?

TIA
Damon
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