[Official Release] DirectAdmin for Redhat Enterprise 3.0

[DirectAdmin Sales]

DirectAdmin for Redhat's Enterprise 3.0 is now available. It is classified as BETA although there are no known bugs at this time. Beta status will be removed in approximately one month. If any bug is found, a fix will be released immediately, so web hosts should have full confidence in this version. We always suggest that you install and play with the panel (e.g. for a full day) before creating accounts for your clients.

To order this version, simply select "RH Enterprise 3.0 (Beta)" when ordering through your client account. This version should function with WS, ES, and AS versions of Enterprise.

Mark

[l0rdphi1]

Good job. Great to hear this. :)

[neorder]

it's been 2 mth after this post, is there any problem to hold the official release? cause i soon will order a RHEL server. ;)

[l0rdphi1]

I've been using DA on RHEL for over a month now no issues whatsoever.. :)

[neorder]

great! i'll be ordering my first RHEL server later tonight!

[ActiveDomain.NL]

Will DA work on CentOS (www.centos.org) ?

[ProWebUK]

no...

Redhat 7.2 / 7.3 / 8.0 / 9
Redhat enterprise 3 (as / es / ws)
Fedora core 1 / core 2?
FreeBSD 4.* / 5.*

Chris

[ActiveDomain.NL]

Chris: as far as I know there is not really a difference between Red Hat EL and CentOS, except for the name.

[ProWebUK]

If that's the case - it may well work... WBEL is also based on RHEL, and afaik works fine.

As for support, you will need John or Mark to confirm that..

Chris

[Exzee]

Does DA actually work perfectly with White Box Enterprise Linux?

[blacknight]

It might make sense to clarify which RH alternatives DA will work with it and what hacks if any are needed. Do we need to "spoof" the OS version?

RHE replacements:
- Whitebox
- Centos
- Tao

[ProWebUK]

I'm fairly sure WBEL will work - it does literally seem an identical copy when using it (besides logos!) - even /etc/redhat-release still exists on there...

Chris

[blacknight]

Chris

A lot depends on how DA sees things. Some software will look for the particular OS version information. If it doesn't recognise the tag it will b0rk.

[jlasman]

My understanding is that DA works fine on WBEL.

Is anyone successfully using DA with WBEL?

If not, I'll start a test the end of this week or the beginning of next week.

Jeff

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by blacknight
Chris

A lot depends on how DA sees things. Some software will look for the particular OS version information. If it doesn't recognise the tag it will b0rk.

DA only uses the (with redhat) /etc/redhat-release to determine the OS version... since that has the same info as the redhat version it downloads and uses the enterprise 3 rpms and compiles the rest as normal.... I cant see why it wont work... but untested at the moment ;)

Chris

[hci]

DA only uses the (with redhat) /etc/redhat-release to determine the OS version... since that has the same info as the redhat version it downloads and uses the enterprise 3 rpms and compiles the rest as normal.... I cant see why it wont work... but untested at the moment

If we purchased a license for say Fedora will that still install on RHEL(WHEL) 3.0 or do we need to change anything?

Also, when will Fedora release 2 officially be supported?

Matt

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

DA uses /etc/redhat-release to determine the *serives* OS. The DirectAdmin binary must still be set in the license itself on our system. (Just send us an email requesting to change the OS in the license)

Fedora 2 is out now, as BETA.

John

[Rob T]

Just to confirm, I have DA currently working flawlessly on CentOS 3.1 (RHEL Clone). I've also done test installs on WhiteBox Enterprise Linux without any issues. The only change I had to make in both cases was to change the contents of /etc/redhat-release and put in the contents of an acutal RHEL box (I have two) so that DA would not freak out when it tried to install. Other than that, they are up and working great. I've also been updating both boxes with Yum as well, i'll try and post a how-to to configure Yum for each OS so that you won't break DA, with round-robin mirror retries and the proper exclude list.

[jlasman]

Rob (and others),

DA has made some changes so DA for WBEL installs perfectly on WBEL without making any changes in advance.

Jeff

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by jlasman
Rob (and others),

DA has made some changes so DA for WBEL installs perfectly on WBEL without making any changes in advance.

Jeff

Doesnt WBEL leave /etc/redhat-release there as rhel 3 anyway?

i'm sure it was there when i tested it previously..?

[Rob T]

I am pretty sure the last few installs I did I made changes to WBEL & Centos, but if DA has updated this i'll try leaving it alone next time and see what happens. Thanks for the info!

[jlasman]

Originally posted by ProWebUK
Doesnt WBEL leave /etc/redhat-release there as rhel 3 anyway?

i'm sure it was there when i tested it previously..?

Nope, it doesn't. At least not in currently shipping ISOs of WBEL 3. It ships with /etc/whitebox-release. The DirectAdmin installer creates a symbolic link from /etc/redhat-release to /etc/whitebox-release.

/etc/whitebox-release contains:

White Box Enterprise Linux release 3.0 (Liberation Respin 1)

Which works.

NOTE:
You might want to get in touch with DA staff as to how to make something more generic that will work on RHEL, WBEL, and CentOS as well, since obviously the above symbolic link won't work on CentOS.

Jeff

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by jlasman
Nope, it doesn't. At least not in currently shipping ISOs of WBEL 3. It ships with /etc/whitebox-release. The DirectAdmin installer creates a symbolic link from /etc/redhat-release to /etc/whitebox-release.

I last downloaded just before DA released the RHEL version - and im 95% certain it had redhat-release there, I specifically checked that at the time when trying to determine if DA would go on there ok or not with any/little modifications done on the client side of DA.

Maybe they have removed it now :)

Chris

[Rob T]

making the changes to redhat-release is no big deal anyway, it's 20 seconds in shell and pico to do the whole thing. Well, that's after I've taken the time to symlink nano to /usr/bin/pico :mad: It would be nice if DA would come up with some way to recoignize WBEL and CentOS directly as RHEL clones rather than just reporting it as RHEL. Not sure what would be required, but I wouldn't think it should be that tough.

I'm pretty sure both WBEL and CentOS had to remove redhat-release for copyright reasons - getting rid of all the copyrighted stuff in RHEL is the toughest part about rolling your own distro based on the RHEL SRPM's from what I understand. I've never played with stuff like that enough to even know where to start, but there is some good info on the HowTo on the WBEL site if you are interested in reading about it.

[jlasman]

In our install (John can verify this), the RHEL version of DA recognized WBEL without a problem after he made the change to do the symlink.

Jeff