yum fails

[Joachim Backes]

roland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server RedHat 9 (so an old version) and I am trying to do an 
> install or update with yum. This fails:
> 
> [root at global WORK]# yum install kpdf
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> 
> Is there someone who knows what this means? The contents of 
> /etc/yum.conf you can see at:
> http://roland.dns2go.com/examples/yum.conf

1. This is a FEDORA mailing list.
2. Why do you not use up2date?

Regards

Joachim Backes
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --Roland Brouwers
> 
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