Re: [CentOS] Serial Port or USB monitoring / Logging

2010-02-13 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report > with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually > incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the > same thing for a blood analy

Re: [CentOS] Serial Port or USB monitoring / Logging

2010-02-13 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report > with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually > incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the > same thing for a blood analy

[CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Jim Green
Dear Centos community, I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn two systems and confuse myself, I understand yum is much better than rpm if is the case? Thank you! Jim ___

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: > Dear Centos community, I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to > know on a centos system, can I use yum alone to do all package > management? I don't want to learn two systems and confuse myself, I > understand yum is much better than rpm if is the cas

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Green wrote: > Dear Centos community, > I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, > can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn > two systems and confuse myself, I understand yum is much better than > r

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Jim Green
On 13 February 2010 10:13, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Green wrote: >> Dear Centos community, >> I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, >> can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn >> two systems and con

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: > On 13 February 2010 10:13, Ron Loftin wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Green wrote: > >> Dear Centos community, > >> I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, > >> can I use yum alone to do all package manag

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
> Thank Robert and Ron, Could you list an example where I need to use > rpm command alone? I used rpm to install stand alone package if that > is the case. If you need information on a specific package then you'll likely need to use rpm directly. For the most part, anytime I need to install a pack

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Jim Green
On 13 February 2010 10:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: > >> On 13 February 2010 10:13, Ron Loftin wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Green wrote: >> >> Dear Centos community, >> >> I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a cen

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Jim Green
On 13 February 2010 10:35, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> Thank Robert and Ron, Could you list an example where I need to use >> rpm command alone? I used rpm to install stand alone package if that >> is the case. > > If you need information on a specific package then you'll likely need > to use rpm directly

Re: [CentOS] Serial Port or USB monitoring / Logging

2010-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 00:52 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Do any of you have any perl scripts that do this? I would like to look at your logic either for a serial or usb port. >>> Based on an upcomin

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-13 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:14 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Dear Centos community, > I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, > can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn > two systems and confuse myself, I understand yum is much

[CentOS] How to remove an entry in the media table

2010-02-13 Thread Todd Cary
I messed up the other day when I did a rsync backup to my usb external drive *but* forgot to mount it (turn it on). So the system appears to have renamed the correct one (external) to usbdrive1 and created a directory on the HD, usbdrive. It has been well over a year since I made that error an

[CentOS] How to display laptop screen on LCD TV?

2010-02-13 Thread hce
Hi, I am running CentOS 5.2 on Acer laptop, I try to display laptop screen on a LCD TV via VGA cable. It was fine while PC was booting in text mode, but as soon as I started X Window, the LCD TV has error "Unsupported signal, adjust your PC out". How can I adjust or may be regenerate an xorg.conf