How To Install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8.
What is freeipmi-ipmiseld
IPMI SEL syslog logging daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeipmi-ipmiseld.
Install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi-ipmiseld using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld
Install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi-ipmiseld using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld
How To Uninstall freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freeipmi-ipmiseld package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeipmi-ipmiseld
freeipmi-ipmiseld Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/freeipmi/ipmiseld.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/a6ac409a588f84f14aa543255f00cc7a549a6c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmiseld.service
/usr/sbin/ipmiseld
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmiseld
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmiseld
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmiseld.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmiseld.8.gz
/var/cache/ipmiseld
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmiseld on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.