>> speaking of said 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL kernels... updated my vmware guest centos's tonite (32bit guests on a 64bit RHEL4 host), and blam, they lost access to the vmware network adatper, eth0 didn't show up at all on them. rolled back them to 42.0.3 and eth0 reappeared. >> > You have to rerun vmware-config-tools.pl on a kernel change (if the > vmware-tools is installed) to produce new kernel modules. > ah, thanks, yeah, I figgered that out a couple hours ago with the help of the #centos crew. RHEL/RHN w/ up2date won't do kernel updates unless you expressly allow it with --force or something... I know you can put a "exclude kernel*" into yum.conf or .repo but then, can you then override that without re-editing the conf ?