On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:34:35PM +0000, Tim Small wrote: > I'm not sure where EPEL is these days, but we run the following packages > on our hardware nodes, which aren't packaged with EL5 (not so sure about > RHEL6 - maybe a couple of those are in there now):
Just looking at el6. > smartd smartmontools is in the RHEL itself. > logcheck > munin EPEL has those. > ipmitool RHEL has that. > pacemaker+heartbeat pacemaker is in RHEL and hearbeat is in EPEL. > drbd Can find only this: drbdlinks.noarch : A program for managing links into a DRBD shared partition > puppet EPEL surely has it. > arno-iptables-firewall It's absent. But I did a google search about that and I can understand why there isn't a package such as that. > > ... and probably a few others which I've forgotten about. I know that > several of those are 3rd-party packaged for RHEL5/6, but then you're > losing a lot of the "it's-guaranteed-supported-for-ages" benefit anyway, > and you've got to fart about researching and tracking down software, and > you're arguably worsening your security as a result too? No? Usually you have all you need inside stock RHEL or with the addition of EPEL. If there is something you need and it is absent from EPEL -- you can always became a package maintainer for it. Fedora community is a great gang and they will always help you. -- SY, Ilya A. Otyutskiy aka Sharp _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
