In article <gkgq6u$5fj$1 at ger.gmane.org>, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: > This is a continuation of the thread: > "yum update fails: CentOS 5.2". > > I installed a fresh Centos 5.2 and ran yum update. > > It ran correctly, except for these issues: > > 1. As previously mentioned, after deciding what it > is going to do, It doesn't ask if its ok. But > if I type y<enter> it reports: > Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: > > 2. During the long period it is downloading files, > it doesn't print anything, giving the impression > that nothing is happening. Watching the lights, > and using WireShark and ARIN, I determined that > it was downloading from the Rochester Institute > of Technology. I decided that was good. During > the install phase, the expected logging appeared. This suggests that yum is not flushing output, possibly because it doesn't think it's stdio is on a tty. 1. Were you running yum update locally on the console, or remotely via a network connection of some kind, e.g. ssh? If you do it as a direct command to ssh (ssh myhost yum update) you might get those symptoms, unless you also give -t to ssh: ssh -t myhost yum update 2. If you were on the console, were you piping the output of yum through something else like tee? e.g. yum update | tee mylogfile If so, you might again get the same symptoms. If you want to capture the output of the session, use the script command: # script mylogfile Script started, file is mylogfile # yum update # exit Script done, file is mylogfile # If neither of the above is applicable, please explain exactly what you did, step by step, including what you might consider insignificant. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org