On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:58:47PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm scared of turning over too much of the system maintenance to > outside programs; I'm always left cleaning up the mess they make, and > I don't even know what they did. I've vaguely heard of up2date, but I > thought it was part of the commercial services? You're allowed to setup a free account and use it to update your system, 'priority' access to redhat's server costs $. You might be interested in using apt, an excellent program finally freed from the world of debian (joking), upgrading and installing packages is as simple as: apt-get install <program> or apt-get upgrade You can also easily upgrade that 7.2 box to 7.3 by using: apt-get dist-upgrade you have the choice of using only redhat's rpms, or redhat rpms plus what other people put out (such as real-time, and freshrpms) http://apt.freshrpms.net/ rpm -Uh http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.2/en/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/apt-0.3.19cnc55-fr7.i386.rpm apt-get update apt-get upgrade presto, your system is now up to date, and should fix your glibc problem as well =) > > Also: > > rpm -q glibc > > glibc-2.2.5-37 > > > > that's the latest release for 7.3, what are you running? > > I'm still on 7.2 > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203