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Ghost Dawg

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From: Third Stone from the Sun

Registered: 2002-10-28

Posts: 47

Update System

This is just a normal rant I guess on when I did a pacman -Syu command and it updated alot of stuff fine & dandy.

But earlier today, I just noticed that it updated the kernel also, from 2.4.20 to 2.4.22...now that was interesting because I didn't know it updated the kernel. I did notice when I did the upgrade I had to run Lilo, but I thought because it upgraded to a newer version of Lilo.

Where is the new kernel files at? I don't see them in /usr/src directory, just the 2.4.20 kernel files.

Now how did that happen with the kernel without my knowledge?

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red_over_blue

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Registered: 2003-07-19

Posts: 152

Re: Update System

I don't use the kernel provided by Arch, but to see what files the new kernel created, try using the following:

pacman -Ql kernel

and if you don't want to be surprised by a kernel upgrade again, add kernel in the IgnorePkg portion of pacman.conf.

IgnorePkg = lilo gcc kernel

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Ghost Dawg

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From: Third Stone from the Sun

Registered: 2002-10-28

Posts: 47

Re: Update System

Thanks for the reply, I'll check into that.

Now another situation I've noticed. When I view my /var/log/message file, it is empty, except one line about the syslogd or similar to it.

Why is it empty? I don't think I have iptables installed yet.

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