Flash Media Server for Red Hat EL 6

Question

I have tried installinf FMS 4.0.2 on RHEL/CentOS 6 with no luck.
The installer complains about missing libcap. When I supress the check the installer warns about installation on an unsupported O/S.
Unfortunately, I can't it to work on CentOS 5. The log says:
2011-07-17      00:39:40        23795   (i)2571011      Server starting...      -
2011-07-17      00:39:40        23795   (i)2581224      Edge (23818) started, arguments : -edgeports ":1935" -coreports "localhost:19350" -conf "/opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml" -adaptor "_defaultRoot_" -name "_defaultRoot__edge1" -edgename "edge1".        -
2011-07-17      00:39:40        23795   (i)2571111      Server started (/opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml).        -
2011-07-17      00:39:45        23795   (i)2581226      Edge (23818) is no longer active.       -
2011-07-17      00:39:45        23795   (w)2581255      Edge (23818) _defaultRoot__edge1 experienced 1 failure[s]!      -
Followed by many more edge failures.
Meanwhile the CentOS 5 installation works fine.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be or whether there is a workaround?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks again to "r.circa" who came up with the original solution. Here are some updated instructions that don't require creating a symbolic link to fix the libcap issue.
I was able to get 4.5.4 working on RHEL 6.3. Here's what to do:
Update to latest errata with 'yum update'; reboot
Also make sure you have latest version of both libcap and compat-libcap1 packages (via yum update...)
Exract the latest FMS install archive (4.5.4 as of this writing).
In that folder, for a successful, error-free install you need to edit three files:
server
adminserver
installFMS
For 'server' and 'adminserver', edit these sections as follows:
  # Red Hat Linux
  if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
        cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux [WAE]S release 3" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL3-i686
        cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux [WAE]S release 4" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL4-i686
        cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL5-i686
        cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL5-i686
        cd_check "CentOS release 4" /etc/redhat-release centos-4-i686
        cd_check "CentOS release 5" /etc/redhat-release centos-5-i686
        DIST='RedHat'
        PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
        REV=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
    DIST="${DIST} ${REV} ${PSUEDONAME}"
        cd_result $DIST
..and:
# check distribution
PLATFORM="Linux"
ARCH=`uname -m`
SUPPORT=0
DISTRO=`check_distro`
case $DISTRO in
    redhat-RHEL5-i686)
    redhat-RHEL6-i686)
    centos-5-i686)
    Debian)
Similarly, for installFMS edit these sections as follows:
  # Red Hat Linux
  if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux [WAE]S release 3" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL3-i686
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux [WAE]S release 4" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL4-i686
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL5-i686
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL6-i686
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL5-i686
  cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 6" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL6-i686
  cd_check "CentOS release 4" /etc/redhat-release centos-4-i686
  cd_check "CentOS release 5" /etc/redhat-release centos-5-i686
  DIST='RedHat'
  PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
  REV=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
    DIST="${DIST} ${REV} ${PSUEDONAME}"
  cd_result $DIST
and...
# check distribution
PLATFORM="Linux"
DISTRO=`check_distro`
case $DISTRO in
    redhat-RHEL5-i686)
    redhat-RHEL6-i686)
    centos-5-i686)
        Debian)
run installFMS as normal and it should just work.
I hope that helps. I also hope Adobe starts to support RHEL 6 users. Seriously, how much effort would it take?
Best,
Daniel