M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just been given a VPS with a fresh, minimal Centos 4.2 > installation. When I ran "yum update" it went on updating some tenths > of packages and signalled this error: > > Updating : perl ####################### [24/88] > Updating : rpm-python ####################### [25/88] > Updating : MAKEDEV ####################### [26/88] > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev/MAKEDEV: cpio: rename > Updating : iputils ####################### [27/88] > Updating : ruby ####################### [28/88] > > What does this exactly mean, and what is the safe/right thing to do? > > Thanks in advance, > Marco > go talk to the people who gave you the VPS, its not setup properly / correctly. this is not a centos issue. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq