CentOS

[quote] joboy wrote: Hi, I am a new member of this forum, as well as a new user of Linux and centOS in particular. How will I be able to know the hard disk remaining space, system memory(RAM), etc.(device drivers)? [/quote] To get the hard disk usage, run the following command: [code]$ df -h[/code] ...

[quote] foxb wrote: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5447&forum=28[/quote] Thanks for the pointer. I got to the point where I was ready to upgrade the GNOME components. I stopped short, though, because there were just too many files to update. For KDE, you have about 30 fil...

[quote] javi wrote: Posted this some time ago in A&SS http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9163&forum=28, must have been the wrong group :-? ?? Somewhere in the last couple of weeks the User Manager GUI stopped working on one of my Centos-4 implementations (CompaQ EVO, the othe...

Hi. I am wondering if there is an easy way to install a newer version of GNOME on CentOS 4.5? For KDE, you can install the KDE packages provided by the kde-redhat repo to bring it up to the latest version. I wonder if the same thing can be done with GNOME through another third-party repo? Thanks, Dai

[quote] toracat wrote: Just wanted to give a heads-up to anyone who is running CentOS 4.5 or 5.0 and mount Windows shares... In CentOS 4.5, the version of cifs was "upgraded" to 1.45 which is what CentOS 5.0 kernel has. This version 1.45 of cifs has a nasty bug that could cause system crashes in an ...

Hi! [quote] michaelnel wrote: [code]//192.168.22.xx/Shared_Folder /mnt/shared cifs username=yyyyy,password=zzzzz 0 0[/code] See if you can get it mounted with a simple line like that and then start adding the other stuff in until it breaks. I don't really know another way to break this down for trou...

[quote] foxb wrote: Same here... Do you have an error message?[/quote] Thanks for the replies. Here is the error message I get: [code][root@leo 90]# mount /mnt/xp mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)[/code] This is the relevant entry in /etc/...

Hi. I just ran "yum update" to bring my system up to 4.5. The updated packages include a new kernel, 2.6.9-55.EL. This new kernel is causing trouble. Namely, it won't mount any Windows share anymore - either as smbfs or cifs. I have a directory shared on my XP box at work and have always been able t...

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michaelnel wrote:
I think it's 7 years after the release.[/quote]
Thanks for the quick response. Do you happen to have any reference to it, preferably on the Internet?

Thanks again,
Dai

Oops, wrong forum! My apologies.

I will post it to the appropriate forum (i.e. CentOS 4).

Dai