CentOS 4 and RHEL 4 6-Month End of Life Notice

[cPanelDavidG]

For continued compatibility with the latest versions of cPanel & WHM, please update your server to CentOS 6 or RHEL 6.

CentOS and Red Hat discontinued support for version 4 of their respective operating systems on February 29, 2012.

cPanel & WHM version 11.32 will be the last to support version 4 of these operating systems. In accordance with our end of life policy, cPanel & WHM will continue to function on these systems after the operating system end of life date.

If you currently run version 4 of CentOS or RHEL, we recommend upgrading your server to version 6 of your operating system.

To determine your installed operating system version, use the following command:

cat /etc/redhat-release

For more information, please visit:

• cPanel’s End of Life policy
• Red Hat Linux Extended Life Cycle support

[Kent Brockman]

In past November Ï just moved my server from CentOS 4.9 to a box with CentOS 5. What about CentOS 5?

[root /]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

[mtindor]

This is a thread on CentOS 4 EOL.

You can find information on both the cPanel and the CentOS operating system end of life support here:

cPanel Operating System End of Life Policy

CentOS OS End of Life Policy

Per cPanel's EOL policy, they support CentOS six months beyond the CentOS EOL date.

Mike

[Kent Brockman]

Thank you, that's the data I was looking for.

[cPanelPaulT]

As a courtesy to our customers running CentOS 4. we have created a CentOS-Base.repo file which points to the vault.centos.org server You will need to copy the contents of the CentOS-Base.repo below to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. After that EasyApache and other scripts will be able to install packages correctly. We strongly urge you to upgrade your server to a supported version of CentOS or to migrate your customers to a new server running a supported version of CentOS.

Customers running RHEL will need to contact Red Hat or their reseller to inquire about working 4.x mirrors or upgrade to a later version of RHEL.


# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by the CentOS Team.
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
priority=1
protect=1

#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
priority=1
protect=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
priority=1
protect=1

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=9
priority=1
protect=1

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0
priority=2
protect=1

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0
priority=2
protect=1

[jack01]

Very thoughtful of you cPanelPaulT, thanks.