On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:49, John Borwick wrote: > Hello! I hope you're doing well. I've looked through the list > archives, and--while there are some hits for this problem in Fedora--I > haven't found any for Red Hat Workstation 3. > > We're running several Red Hat Workstation 3 machines, with the following > in their "redhat-release" file: > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon) > > This gets put into $releasever as "Null". > > Is there anything wrong on my end? Should I just generate my own > "site-release" file with some other string? If so, what should that > string be? > > The machine's running yum 2.0.7, the latest I could find. rpm -q --qf %{version} redhat-release then look in your yum.conf for what distroverpkg is set to. man yum.conf will tell you what distroverpkg is -sv