On 3/27/2008, "Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> that time the monitor stayed off.. had to ssh in to resolve it..That may >> indicate that someting in the sysinit shuts off the monitor at the start >> of a script, then turns it back on at the end.. > >Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: > >quiet rhgb > >If so, please remove them if you do not want X on the server. These 2 >things try (during boot up) to take away the standard startup screen and >replace it with a Blue background and picture. This uses X, which could >cause something if it has been removed and the options are still listed. > >Removing those options (if they are there) should fix that issue. I'll look into it, thanks. >We do not seem to have php-mssql for CentOS extras as it requires >freetds and we were concerned about potential patent issues with >freetds. However, it seems Fedora is including freetds now in version 8 >and version 9, so I will research this freetds issue again and if we >think we can safely build and distribute freetds I will get it into our >extras repo soon. If not, you should be able to easily build it ... but >I think we will add it, so not to worry. Good to hear :) I know I can easily build it, I supplied contrib rpms of freetds for Trustix a while back, which got adopted into official.. I just asked because I really like getting updates without having to rebuild php/freetds each time.. >Also ... some rpms do require certain things to be available, and the >binaries are LINKED against the shared libraries. So, one can not just >delete (for example) all xorg-x11 RPMS just because you don't want X. If >you did use "rpm -e" (with a --force or --nodeps) then it should be OK >since if a library is necessary, RPM will complain and not do the >removal unless overridden. Yes, I am well aware of the dependency thing.. I used to maintain a large selection of packages in TSL contrib.. I did rpm -e libgnomesomething and added on packages until it stopped complaining about deps.. As far as X11 goes, I deselected that during install, don't remember having to remove any of those rpms by hand.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq