I had a user report which I've now duplicated: the yum nightly cronjob hung. netstat -t -p revealed it still had an ESTABLISHED connection to a repo, and strace -p (yum process) showed it sitting and waiting in a read(6, ...), where 6 is a socket; I'm guessing it was trying to read something from the repository, but just not getting anything. Is it possible there's a transfer that's not timing out? regards, David -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040809/69a625ae/attachment.bin