On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:54 -0600, ShashankBhide wrote: > I would love to give this a try and most definitely will do it, however > from what I read, you would need the rpm database to know about to new > kernel to let up2date know about the newly installed kernel. Or is there > another way of letting up2date know that I have a new kernel ? It's not necessary because the new kernel will be compiled with "custom" added to the name. Thus, it will not be overwritten by yum or u2d. In yum.conf, I use exclude=kernel*. ________________________________________________________________________ Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence http://www.TQMcube.com