I have several systems running RH9, and on all but one the user can run up2date from a shell. On the last system, the console user can run up2date from the RHN applet, but from a shell, the result is: $ up2date warning: can't access /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date warning: can't access /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid No rhnuuid config option found in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid. This happens before the prompt for the root password. The config files in /etc/sysconfig/rhn appear to be similar on all systems and have the same permissions. I don't recall doing anything different on the problem system during or after the install. Any ideas, anyone? TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs