I asked:
> What happens if you become root:
> su -
> (and enter the root password when prompted) and then run:
> yum update
> (yes, this is still in a terminal).
Andrew Ritter wrote:
> Actually, I have logged on as root to run yum update. Using su and the root
> password shouldn't produce a different result.
I was hoping to get an error message out of you...
Incidentally, you're sending messages out to the Internet as HTML and
plain text, but the plain text versions aren't doing quoting properly --
there's nothing to distinguish my text from yours.
Could you fix your e-mail settings?
Thanks,
James.
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| incompetent at predicting horse racing results. So are
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