Am I seeing that up2date is trying to decompress a *.hdr file? or is that the <snip>? from the up2date man page /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources Configure settings for external package repositories from my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file yum updates-released http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1 -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>