On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:38 -0500, Bill Tetens wrote: > 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. <SNIP> > > [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]$ Bill: most of the YUM commands require you to be root (SuperUser) enter "su -" (without quotes) on the terminal window then enter in the root password, followed by <enter> and re-try this command Scott