> 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]$ > > > > > > It looks like you have not downloaded any header files. run yum update. This will populate you /var/cache/yum with header files. I would use a mirror site rather than the fedora redhat site since the download speed at those sites is slow because they are used so much. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
