Have manged to be able to send messages from the linux machine but cannot receive. Think I can solve the problem later on. Here is the two commands ran and the reply. [billw@workgroup billw]$ cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ #[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/ #[development] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/ [billw@workgroup billw]$ [billw@workgroup billw]$ yum list updates Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system. [billw@workgroup billw]$