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> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 also introduces diskdevstat for monitoring > disk operations and netdevstat for monitoring network operations. How could I monitor disk operations under CentOS 5? The quote is from RHEL 6 release notes http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.0_Release_Notes/powermanagement.html - Jussi

yes, i've read the online docs and followed a link or two to find a simple way to do this, such as: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapOnCentOS so, these days, is that the canonical way to download source rpms? now, note that i'm not arguing about whether this is a good idea. in my circumstances, i want the ability to just "yum download" source rpms so that i can have my students poke around in a source rpm and learn how to...