Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Johnny Hughes suggested the command, so on that basis alone >> I would give it a high probability of success. > > If you have ALL the latest glibc/nscd files to replace all the installed > RPMS in the same place, and if you upgrade them all at the same time > (including any i686 ones that you have installed).. then it SHOULD work > properly and not break. I would say that the probability of success is > close to 100% ... IF you have the proper files in the directory when you > do the force install. Thanks again for your useful advice. I'm going over to Italy in a couple of weeks now, so I'll leave it till then and do the "rpm --force" when I'm sitting at the server. > Whenever you run extremely important commands (like "yum update" or "rpm > -Uvh --force") you need to be running these from inside a "screen" > session. This will prevent a connectivity issue and subsequent > disconnect from killing all running processes in your current shell. Yes, thanks, I'd forgotten that possibility. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin