Thank You All - best southern accent for galculator help. This we discussed once before and looking at my notes there must an error in notes. __________________________________________________ /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes exclude=kernel* openafs* *-kmdl-* kmod-* *firmware* __________________________________________________ I added -openoffice.org-ure* to end and it did not work. Is this a space separated list or ? Larry Linder