On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 10:10 +0530, Pragati Sinha wrote: > thanks ,actually i had this main (global config line) already in my > yum.conf file.i guess i missed writing it in my mail. > now today when i run this command yum -y update , i got this : > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > > i have checked the versions of python - 2.3.3-2 and yum . > Thanks and Reagrds, > Pragati if you use a web browser from that machine and go to: http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info what do you see? I think you're hitting a proxy of some sort. -sv