Changes to Red Hat Linux distribution 6.2
The Linux version installed on the hosting appliance is based on a "Server" installation of Red Hat* Linux 6.2. The Red Hat installer defines several groups of RPMs (RPM Package Manager) that may be installed when a "Server" installation is selected. The groups that are not needed for the hosting appliance are removed:
- Printer Support
- Dialup Workstation
- Network Server
- NFS Server
- SMB (Samba) Server
- IPX*/Netware* Connectivity
- Anonymous FTP Server (This has been replaced with Intel's FTP service, based on wu-ftpd.
- Web Server (This has been replaced with Intel's custom version of Apache which includes PHP, and SSL support.)
- Postgres (SQL) Server
- Network Management Workstation
Modifications have also been made to several installed RPMs that provide base functionality:
- The kernel was updated from version 2.2.14 to 2.2.16. The kernel was also patched to enable graceful shutdown of the operating system from the power button.
- The Red Hat-release RPM was replaced with Intel's NetStructure-release RPM. This replaces the default Red Hat login prompt with Intel's.
- The setup-2.1.8-1 RPM was patched to set the default mailbox path for users.
- The initscripts-5.00-1 RPM was patched to support console redirection to the serial port.
- Both the sysklogd and logrotate RPMs have been patched with NetStructure1010/1020 specific configuration files (these are now called Nssysklogd and Nslogrotate)
- Sendmail has been patched with NetStructure1010/1020 specific configuration files (the files are now called NSSendmail and NSSendmail-cf)
- ucd-snmp has been patched with NetStructure1010/1020 specific configuration files (the file is now called NSucd-snmp)
- webalizer has been patched with NetStructure1010/1020 specific configuration files (the file is now called NSwebalizer)