I would evaluate the difference before to do that. You should unpack both package in a temporary directory and look for difference. This is very easy they are all text file. Use # rpm2cpio RPM_file | cpio -idv to unpack the RPM file and # diff -ru /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir2 to compare recursively text file This will help you to understand what your probleme is. Be carefull about file /etc/init.d/halt , this is the last command run when shutingdow regards Alain On 9/4/07, Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I have experienced a couple of power failures since installing CentOS 5, > both while I was working on the system. The first time, several weeks > ago, I thought there was some "feature" that I had never seen before but > couldn't really put my finger on it. The power came back on after a few > seconds and I never missed a beat. I also shrewdly forgot about the > anomaly that I had almost noticed. > > I had a real power failure 2 days ago and tried to be more observant. > What had gotten my attention earlier is that the once-familiar banner > displayed on about everything except my room's ceiling was missing. > > After some red herrings and blind alleys (hey, you don't have to worry > about mixed metaphors when you're an illiterate old coot!) I decided > that the missing banners and the fact that the power was killed while a > graphical page was displayed was what I saw. > > Anyhow, it seems that these extinct banners were a function of the > /bin/shutdown routine in SysVinit because banners happen in CentOS 4.x > whether the shutdown command is issued by fingers or by a UPS monitoring > daemon. And I have since found that they're gone from CentOS 5, no > matter how shutdown is invoked. > > After all of this, my question boils down to one of replacing the > current SysVinit package, SysVinit-2.86-14.i386.rpm with the one from > CentOS 4.x, SysVinit-2.85-34.3.i386.rpm > Would that be courting disaster? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you