setting up network

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Aug 16 15:34:25 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:38 -0500, Bill Tetens wrote:
> Have manged to be able to send messages from the linux machine but
> cannot receive.  Think I can solve the problem later on. Here is the two
> commands ran and the reply.
   <SNIP>
> 
> [billw at workgroup billw]$ yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
> Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.
> [billw at workgroup billw]$

Bill: most of the YUM commands require you to be root (SuperUser)
enter "su -" (without quotes) on the terminal window then enter in the
root password, followed by <enter> and re-try this command

Scott





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