Hello Seth, I have repository and yum and my stupid little yum-selectmirror now running flawlessly. This is indeed very stable at this time. Good work. Now - I could use expect for this, but you already have the -y switch so why not a -n (for no) switch? What I need it for? Well - I would like to make a Webmin interface for yum, and this is all I need. With a -n switch I can have yum give me a list of rpms it wants to install, and then simply re-run yum with -y should the user agree after being presented with the list. Or do you have a better way? Karsten