How to install crond,sshd,named,xinetd,ypbind and dhcpd in RHEL 12
 

Hi-I recently installed Fedora RHEL 12 for my Linux 2 class. We were told to use yum to install a few daemons. However, dhcpd, crond, named, sshd, ypbind and xinetd will not install. The following is the commands I type in:

[root@jason Jason]# yum install crond
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/me...a-12&arch=i386 error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - ""
Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/me...-f12&arch=i386 error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - ""
Setting up Install Process
No package crond available.
Nothing to do
[root@jason Jason]# yum install dhcpd
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package dhcpd available.
Nothing to do
[root@jason Jason]# yum install named
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package named available.
Nothing to do
[root@jason Jason]# yum install name d
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package name available.
No package d available.
Nothing to do
[root@jason Jason]# yum install sshd
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package sshd available.
Nothing to do
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I would ask my instructor, but our class is rather large and we have limited lab time at school. Thank you and have a great 4th of July!!

Try running "yum clean all". It's possible that some cached info
was corrupted, and this will clear the cache.

Incidentally, RHEL and Fedora are two completely different products.
RHEL is the fully supported version for the enterprise and Fedora
is the free one.

Run . I believe all of those daemons might already be installed.

in fedora 12 those ARE installed by default
you may want to point the prof to the fedora docs page
the prof. needs HELP !!!
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html
and for services in fedora here is a link to the old fedora 12 page
Fedora 13 is the current.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f12.html

not quite
RHEL 5.5 is current and CentOS 5.5 is the community supported version of RHEL

Fedora is a testing and research and development version that PUSHES the envelope until it brakes then fedora is fixed and pushed some more until something else breaks .

do not expect everything in fedora to work 100% correct 100% of the time -- it WILL NOT.

@JohnVV

Whilst I agree with you (in that Fedora is latest/greatest stuff susceptible to break) carltm was correct:

RHEL is the fully supported (paid for) version; and Fedora is free :) CentOS is a community driven clone of RHEL as you correctly state.

Using yum : $ man yum

# yum search <name>
# yum list
# yum list <name>

# yum provides */<command>
# yum provides */<file>
etc. etc.
.......

yes
 

Thanks to everyone for your help. As it turns out, they WERE already installed and the prof knew it all along! Boy, college is expensive! Thanks again everone. I hope I can be of service to you in the near future.