Note: As a digest subscriber the favour of a direct reply is requested in addition to the list. I had a network connection interrupted while running yum update on a remote server. The last line displayed showed 189/3?? updated. Subsequently I reconnected and now yum reports that there is nothing to do: Setting up Upgrade Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion Is there any simple way to check what the actual state of that machine is or to force yum to reapply all outstanding updates regardless of whether they are already installed or not? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3