hi everybody you probably have notice yum broke repos config or/and something broke in repos configs or/and in yum and you get funky urls: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%24slreleasever/x86_64/os/Packages/minicom-2.6.2-5.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] FTP Error 550 - Server denied you to change to the given directory quick workaround is to use: /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever # and value in it I wonder what broke? regards