On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:43:49 -0600 Kathy Wills <kathywills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Kathy Wills Kathy, Using "yum -C list installed" will avoid the server checking. Since you're interested in what's present, not what's available, using the local information cache is appropriate. David