CentOS 6 Extended Support

Introduction

WARNING

You do not need ELS for CentOS 6 subscription if you are already using CloudLinux OS 6. You can find more information here

CentOS 6 extended support from CloudLinux allows you to continue running your CentOS 6 server after the end of CentOS 6 support in November 2020.

CloudLinux provides CentOS 6 extended support through the year 2024.

CentOS 6 extended support from CloudLinux doesn't require migration. You just run an installer script that adds a new repository file. No reboot is necessary.

We provide continual updates for Apache, PHP, MySQL, Glibc, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and cPanel.

Supported packages

Packages	Packages	Packages	Packages
glibc openssh openssl zlib httpd mysql php acl acpid at attr audit authconfig basesystem bash bc blktrace	bridge-utils busybox bzip2 crash cyrus-imapd cyrus-sasl db4-utils device-mapper dhclient dhcpv6 dmidecode dos2unix dovecot ed gcc gd gdb	glib2 groff info Iptstate logrotate lslk lvm2 makedev nfs4-acl-tools nfs-utils nspr ntp opens pam perl procmail procps	python rcs rds-tools rhnlib rsync rsyslog setroubleshoot setserial setup sos stunnel tzdata vim wget yum-metadata-parser yum-rhn-plugin

WARNING

There are no trials available for CentOS Extended Lifecycle Support

Enabling CentOS 6 ELS Repository (If you are not using local mirror)

To enable the CentOS 6 ELS repository on a server, follow these steps:

1. Download an installer script:

wget https://repo.cloudlinux.com/centos6-els/install-centos6-els-repo.py

2. Run the installer script with an activation key:

python install-centos6-els-repo.py --license-key XXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

3. The script will create the /etc/yum.repos.d/centos6-els.repo yum repository config file and install the centos-els-release package containing the repository PGP key.

   • To ensure that installation has been completed successfully, run the following command:

   rpm -q centos-els-release
   

   It should return the installed package name and version:

   centos-els-release-6-6.10.1.el6.x86_64 
   

4. After this, you will be able to install updates from the repository using a regular yum upgrade command.

yum update sudo 

Switching to use only ELS mirrors

Starting from the centos-els-release-6-6.10.2.el6 version (released on 2020-09-08) our centos-els-release package will obsolete the centos-release package in order to switch clients to use our CentOS ELS repositories instead of upstream ones.

Basically, the base, updates, extras, centosplus, contrib, and fasttrack repositories will be reconfigured for our mirrors.

Already registered users will receive this update from our centos6-els repository with the following commands:

yum clean all
yum upgrade centos-els-release

For newly registered servers the updated package will be installed automatically by our installer script.

To ensure that installation has been completed successfully, run the following command:

rpm -q centos-els-release

It should return the installed package name and version:

centos-els-release-6-6.10.2.el6.x86_64

Additionally, you can use the yumdownloader tool from the yum-utils package to verify that our repositories are used:

~]# yumdownloader --urls mc
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
https://repo.cloudlinux.com/centos/6/os/x86_64//Packages/mc-4.7.0.2-6.el6.x86_64.rpm

Here we can see that yum will use our host repo.cloudlinux.com instead of a CentOS mirror.

How to create CentOS 6 ELS mirror

We provide an opportunity to create local mirrors of our centos6-els repositories.

To obtain the access to the local mirroring, provide your External IP address to your Account Manager or sales@cloudlinux.com.

Use rsync to create a local mirror.

To create a local mirror of repo with centos6-els security updates you need to use rsync://repo.cloudlinux.com/CENTOS6ELS/

To create a local mirror of CentOS 6 you need to use rsync://repo.cloudlinux.com/CENTOS6/

For example:

rsync  -avSHP --delete rsync://repo.cloudlinux.com/CENTOS6ELS/
rsync  -avSHP --delete rsync://repo.cloudlinux.com/CENTOS6/

Outbound firewall settings

In order to use ELS for CentOS, you need to opent TCP port 443 to the following destinations:

• cln.cloudlinux.com
• repo.cloudlinux.com
• els-rollout.cloudlinux.com