Seth, A one liner suggestion. In the yum cron file please do an "export HOME=/root". Why? Because cron runs with HOME == / so RPM looks in /.gnupg for the keyring and finds nothing. Hence sigcheck()s fail. Hence we all go insane!!! Weeee!!! Jack Neely -- Jack Neely <slack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux Realm Kit Administration and Development PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89