CentOS

CentOs-7-i386-minimal-1810.iso. ASUS A7N8X-X mobo, Athlon XP3200+ CPU, 2GB DDR 400 RAM. Booted the install disk, got 2 messages before the system came to a halt: [0.000000] Detected single CPU native boot. [0.000000]Important: In CentOs 7, single threaded, single CPU 64-bit physical systems are unsu...

man lpstat You should not be running 5.7, as it has years of unpatched vulnerabilities. Yum update to the current 5.11 immediately, and start planning for a new install of a version that will not be end of life in less than a year. I am not planning on installing a newer version, as I have done tha...

Click on printer icon at top right hand of screen

Apropos is still not working. Will try later today. 5.7 is the only thing that will run my scanner w/out problems. When I run 5.11, Nautilus crashes when I open scanned .jpeg. Do I need to worry about security if that computer is not connected to the internet? or my LAN? I use it to run old SCSI sca...

My Bad. I installed from CentOs 5.7 i386 bin DVD 1 of 2. I thought I checked it's md5sum, etc, but must have checked that of 2 of 2. Checksum of 1 of 2 does not match. The install did not require 2 of 2. Looking to download 1 of 2 see 1 of 8 thru 8 of 8, they look like CD's. I see no 1 of 2 and 2 of...

$ rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron
man-1.6d-3.el5
$ man-1.6d-3.el5
bash: man-1.6d-3.el5: command not found

CentOs was installed on May 11 2017.

$ makewhatis
bash: makewhatis: command not found

For example apropos printer On a computer not running CentOs: ~ $ apropos printer cups-browsed (8) - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared, remote CUPS printers cups-calibrate (8) - ESP CUPS Printer Calibration Tool cups-lpd (8) - receive print jobs and report printer status to lpd ...

apropos and man -k both return "nothing appropriate" Is there something I need to do to make them work? Is there another method for finding appropriate commands for a subject in CentOs?

How do I printer Que CentOs 5.7 Final