> you need to pick up the 'updates' directory Ah, that makes sense. The only reason I looked in the os directory on the ftp servers was that when I did a "find /my/path/to/centos -name shadow\*" it was the only directory that contained the shadow-utils RPM. I can see that there is a newer version of this RPM in the mirrors. So the question becomes, why isn't my rsync picking up this file? It's picked up every other file in the updates directory except for that one. According to the logs, my rsync ran last night. Here is the command I run from cron: rsync --archive --delete --partial --progress --stats --verbose \ --exclude="SRPMS" --exclude="alpha" --exclude="ia64" --exclude="ppc" \ --exclude="s390*" --exclude="x86_64" --exclude="isos" \ rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/centos/4 /my/path/to/centos I think I just found the problem. I need to rsync the 4.2 directory. I think I made this change a couple of weeks ago (from 4.2 to 4), but I don't remember why. I've changed it back to 4.2, and it's rsync'ing a whole bunch of files now. Alfred