My thanks to all of you who have contributed ideas in response to my questions. It turns out that the guy who built this system did a supurb job and put apt-get on it. ntpd was not resident on the system, but all I had to do was type apt-get -install ntp.rpm or something very similar and voila, it was there in no time flat. As a Debian user, many things are familiar as this is, after all, Linux. It is just a matter of learning the regional dialect. I didn't know that apt-get existed outside of Debian. Martin McCormick "Willem van der Walt<willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" writes: >In place of filename.rpm one can give >http://some.rpm.site/filename.rpm >and rpm will go and grab the file using http. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list