On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:06:26AM -0600, mw-list-yum@xxxxxx wrote: > # yum info yum > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 426 Transmission failure: not a directory > http://moni.csi.hu/mw/yum.ftpd.strace > > Other cilents like ftp, ncftp, lynx, mozilla have no problems getting > the file named in the error message. The problem is happening in urllib2, so you should probably take this up on the python mailing list. Run this script to see what I mean: ------------------------- import ftplib ftplib.FTP.debugging = 1 import urllib2 urllib2.urlopen("ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info") ------------------------- -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G