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Copy/Backup the RHEL5 DVD on the local hdd.

Mount DVD drive:

#mount /dev/cdrom /media





Now copy all the files from the DVD disk to the local Hard disk drive

#mkdir /var/ftp/pub/rhel5

#cp -avf /dev/media/* /var/ftp/pub/rhel5

To configure YUM server, following rpm's and services are required:

1.vsftpd->vsftpd-2.0.5.10.el5.i386.rpm

a). Run vsftpd rpm

#rpm -ivh vsftpd-*.rpm





b). iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 20 -j ACCEPT

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 20 -j ACCEPT

c). For SELinux

setsebool allow_ftpd_full_access on

d). open the file :- vim

#vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and modify below mention line

IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_conntrack_netbios_ns ip_conntrack_ftp"





Now your ftp server is ready to take the responsibilty of yum server.

2.createrepo -> createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

#cd /var/ftp/pub/rhel5/Server

#rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

#cd..

#createrepo -vg /var/ftp/pub/rhel5/Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml Server

*****ON CLIENT MACHINE*****

#vim /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo
[reposfile]
name= Updates
baseurl=ftp://ipaddress/pub
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY





Eg: #vim /etc/yum.repos.d/client.repo
{*you can use the following lines if configuring on a local PC*}
[server]
name=YUM configuration for the client PC
baseurl=ftp://127.0.0.1/pub/rhel5/Server
gpgcheck=0

====>>>>press esc key and type ->:wq - to save the file and exit from vim