CentOS

When updating using yum update I notice that some packages are shewn as “will be updated” while others are shewn as “will be an update”. What is the difference please?

Ha,ha,ha. Typo. 30 deg c.

As is my habit I had written the post in LO where you can easily select supertext. When I copied it to the forum I couldn't find the command so substuted deg for all the zeros Must have missed that one out.

Anyway, what's wrong with a bit of heating in the office?

Well,I successfully ran Memtest for 7 hours 19minutes. During that time it completed 17 runs without any errors so from that I deduced that there is no problem with the memory. I would like to say that also applies the the motherboard, hard disk drive and power supply but they are hardly stressed us...

At present the machine is running with the side off so plenty ov ventilation. Ambient air temp around 18 deg, humidity around69%.

I was wrong about the time memtest takes to run. It has gone through one cycle without any errors and is now into its second. I hadn't thought about the memory. The next time it powers off I will remove the one stick (512MB) and clean the contacts with isopropyl alcohol. I will also swap out the PSU...

It will not run for long enough even to make one pass

I have a HP P3 machine that will not now run for more than 45 to 90 minutes at a time. It has run physically unattended for many years so I thought it might be a cooling issue. When I looked inside it was indeed very dirty with the heatsinks for both processors blocked up. Without removing them they...