Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 5:22:31 PM, you wrote: Hi, WH> 1. Man pages have strange characters in them. WH> After doing an install of 8.0, man (e.g., man man) WH> displays the man page with occasional a^ (^ over the a) WH> symbols and the "-"s are missing. Is this a LOCALE issue? WH> I do not see this problem on my laptop (RH 7.3 updated to 8.0). not for me ... Try to use another font set ... WH> 2. Can't launch up2date. WH> On my laptop, while logged in as a user, I tried to launch up2date. WH> I got the prompt for the root PW, entered it then nothing happened. WH> I tried to launch it from an xterm, logged in as root; up2date seems WH> to hang. From the root login, up2date-nox seemed to hang as well. 1. Register with rhn_register, then use up2date. If you have registered already, look for some messages in /var/log/messages or start up2date with strace ... Best regards, Duncan Rubinger __________________________________________ - Duncan Rubinger - www.semanticedge.com - - Corporate Network Manager - - duncan.rubinger@semanticedge.com - - Mobile: 0179 509 54 24 - __________________________________________ The Lord of the token ring ... "One Ring to link them all, One Ring to ping them, one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness sniff them."