Les Mikesell wrote: > I've had yum sessions fail (probably mostly from starting them in a > freenx session...) but never to the point where > yum-complete-transaction did not fix it, so I don't have a good > feeling for what is actually happening. However, I wouldn't expect a > forced install of any reasonably close glibc version to break > anything. You're tempting me! Actually, it would be silly of me to try, as the server is running fine at the moment, sending back pictures and watering the garden. > what is your plan if the drives or motherboard fails? Worst case > software wise won't be any worse than that. That would only be slightly worse, as I do have a spare machine in the other place. But it's years since I had a motherboard go sick. Does that happen less than it used to? I do have Fedora-16 and Windows XP on the machine, and was thinking of a complicated system to re-boot into Fedora if CentOS failed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin