Ed K. said: {snip] > This is simpler then you show here. You can get the last update time from > the modified header from the > repository: > > $ telnet mirror.linux.duke.edu 80 > HEAD > http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info > HTTP/1.1 > ^D > > wget will return the header, but will also download the entire file... OK, you convinced me. :-) I'm going to work on this in my spare time... I'm just not sure how much of that I have right now.... But, it's definately a "pet project" I'm interested in. (And I do have the general experience to analyze, design, implement, debug, etc) So, I just have a bit of reading to do to see HOW to do what I WANT... that is is I know WHAT needs doing, I'm just fuzzy on the "HOW"... and that's a nit, isn't it? ;-) Thanks, Don