Kersey Black wrote:
> Hi,
> Have been trying yesterday and today to pull down the new config file for
>  yum, to update to 5.5.  I 
> always get the same message, although I did this just fine a few days ago
>  on another computer.
> 
> Am I the only one having this problem?  or is there something up with the
>  ftp site?
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Here is the failed command (I am trying to update some Intel _x64 boxes).
> 
> 
> []# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/
> RPMS/yum-conf-
> latest.SL.noarch.rpm
> Retrieving ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RP
> MS/yum-conf-
> latest.SL.noarch.rpm
> error: skipping ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/mi
> sc/RPMS/yum-conf-
> latest.SL.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error

I was able to get the file, but then I'm fairly close to the server.

Can you get it outside of rpm trying to get it.  Try

wget 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm

or try the http equivalent

wget 
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm

Troy
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