Thanks for the replies.  I found yum repo that had the freetds:

wget 
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

[root@web1 src]# yum search freetds
rpmforge                                                 | 1.1 kB 
00:00
rpmforge/primary                                         | 1.4 MB 
00:02
rpmforge 
4091/4091
============================= N/S Matched: freetds 
=============================
freetds-devel.x86_64 : Header files, libraries and development 
documentation for
                      : freetds
freetds.x86_64 : Implementation of the Sybase/Microsoft TDS (Tabular 
DataStream)
                : protocol

   Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.


On 1/19/12 9:58 AM, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> 	Hi,
>
> On Thursday, January 19, 2012 17:37:42 CJ Keist wrote:
>> On 1/19/12 9:26 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, CJ Keist<[log in to unmask]>   wrote:
>>>> I have two identical servers. One I install SL 6.1 last month.  Today
>>>> I have install SL 6.1 on the second server.  On the newest server
>>>> when you issue:
>>>>
>>>> yum search all freetds
>>>> Warning: No matches found for: freetds
>>>> No Matches found
>>>>
>>>> On the older server if finds freetds:
>>>>
>>>> yum search freetds
>>>> ============================= N/S Matched: freetds
>>>> =============================
>>>> freetds-devel.x86_64 : Header files and development libraries for
>>>> freetds freetds.x86_64 : Implementation of the TDS (Tabular
>>>> DataStream) protocol>>
>>>>    Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.
>>>>
>>>> I check the yum conf files and they are the same between the two
>>>> servers?>>
>>>>    I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> I suspect that on your older server you have one (or more) of the
>>> rpmforge/epel/atrpms repos enabled. Check with:
>>>
>>> yum repolist all
>>
>> Thanks, but they look the same:
>
> running
>
> yum list freetds
>
> will show you the repo where the package was installed (or is available) from.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 		Andreas

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