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Testing Link Status from the Command Line

mii-tool and ethtool commands command will provide reports on the link status and duplex settings for supported NICs.

ethtool - Display or change ethernet card settings.
ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them. ethX is the name of the ethernet device on which ethtool should operate. ethtool with a single argument specifying the device name prints current settings of the specified device.

Verify that FFmpeg is working properly by running the following two commands:

You will get a few lines similar to the following:

ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on => April 15 2010 15:31:45
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version => Lavc51.62.0
ffmpeg libavformat version => Lavf52.18.0
ffmpeg swscaler => disabled
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0

This is the second command to make sure that FFmpeg is working properly:

How to Setup CentOS testing repo

Setting up repos

To install the CentOS testing repo, along with the yum-priorities plugin.

The priorities plugin can be used to enforce ordered protection of repositories, by associating priorities to repositories. Packages from repositories with a lower priority will never be used to upgrade packages that were installed from a repository with a higher priority.