About time. It was openssl that caused the whole mess. Apparently, I updated some time ago openssl from a openssl-related site that provided rpm packages for rh8/9 to the version 0.9.7a-30, while on fedora legacy mirrors there was openssl 0.9.7a-20.2 So I downloaded from fedora legacy the right package, gave it a "rpm -Uvh --force" then checked in the command line of python with "import ftplib" to see if there were still errors. Python didn't complain so I re- installed yum. oh well. ^__^ (no, don't ask me why I updated openssl to 0.9.7a-30, I don't have this much cache in my biological RAM!) Thanks to everybody for all their help. :-) -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WARNING WARNING WARNING *** EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGED! | | USE EMAIL ADDRESS PROVIDED BELOW | | IF YOU KEEP WRITING TO THE OLD ADDRESS IT IS NOT MY FAULT! | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barbara Pennacchi b.pennacchi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | | Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione | | V.le Marx 15, 00137 Roma, Italia | | http://www.istc.cnr.it/ | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
