On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:43, Kathy Wills wrote: > Dave, > > I just wanted to let you know that the suggestion to get the latest > version of Yum worked. The only problem I'm having now is that when I do > "yum list installed" it downloads some of the headers and then says > "failover: out of servers to try. Error getting (here it gives the > header it would try to get next) [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > > I'm assuming this just means the server is busy because if I wait just a > few minutes it will get some more of the headers. under [main] add retries=10 that will increase the number of retries yum makes to contact the server. also - you aren't by chance using a transparent proxy? -sv
