On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is there a graceful way to tell yum to stop when you realize it is > not going to complete in some reasonable amount of time? By 'graceful' > I mean don't retry every possible mirror for each of the remaining > 200+ updates it is planning to get before actually stopping... yum 2.9.6 should resolve that. hit ctrl-c, twice, quickly. that will exit. -sv