You're probably right. I thought he was using the base directory for his updates because he said > I have been using up2date with > http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 But I'll bet he really is using the updates directory, in which case he's ok. This thread started because someone asking about where to get an updated version of samba was apparently not doing updates at all, and had old versions of glibc and kernel. Steven Yellin On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:47:36 -0800 (PST), Steven J. Yellin wrote: > > > The archive you have been using, > > http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 , > > doesn't seem to have been updated since Feb. 27, 2003. > > That's because it's the "base" directory of Red Hat Linux 9. The > "updates" directory was included near the bottom of his mail, here: > > > > my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file contains > > > yum rh9-base http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 > > > yum updates http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/updates/i386 > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list