On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:09 -0600, Tony Hill wrote: > Some of us have had the same problem with Yum freezing up - we've > covered that in another thread on this list. > > Taking your suggestion last night, I ran Yum to get a list of the > recent updates and when (as usual) it froze while downloading a large > file (Open Office updates are always a killer), I did a CTRL-C and then > I used my gFTP client to download the rest of the files. so yum froze but going from the same ftp sites gftp did not? -sv