Re: [Condor-users] Status of RHEL 4 and Condor

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes.  The recommendation for RHEL4 is still to use RH9 Condor binaries.

You can see the current recommendations at any time by looking at the 
porting table:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/porting/port_table.html

--Dan

Cleary Jr, Richard N wrote:

> The following post from a year ago mentioned that Condor should run on 
> the 2.6 kernel and RHEL4 with the RH9 binary. Has any progress been 
> made on getting an RHEL 4 release or is the following still the 
> correct way to deploy condor on RHEL4?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
> -----Begin old post
> At 10:40 AM 4/26/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>
>       As we plan to upgrade our central manager, I was wondering when
>       a version of Condor for the 2.6 kernel (RHEL4) will be
>       available. I'd rather avoid a double upgrade if possible.
>
>
> (For those following along who are less familiar with Linux variants, 
> Curt is asking about RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, which was recently 
> released.)
>
> We've only just begun testing with RHEL4 so our data is preliminary. 
> That said, we believe that the current Condor 6.7.6 build should work 
> fine on RHEL4 with a couple of caveats.
>
> 1) You want our "RedHat 9" binary.
>
> 2) It's dynamically linked against an older version of the gcc runtime 
> libraries. Therefore you need to install the compatibility gcc 
> package. I forget the name of this package, but I think there is a 
> single RPM you can install that will get these for you.
>
> We've tested on other Linux 2.6 kernel distributions like Fedora Core 
> 3, so I'm optimistic that this will work.
>
> We hope to do further testing to ensure that RHEL4 works properly. 
> We're also debating the best way to avoid the problem I mentioned in #2.
>
> Let us know how it goes,
> -alain
>
>
> --
> Richard N. Cleary
> Sandia National Laboratories
> Dept. 4324 Infrastructure Computing Systems
> Email: rnclear@xxxxxxxxxx
> Phone: 505.845.7836
>
>
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