yum fails

[roland]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:21:51 +0100, gary <garys at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:35 +0100, 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
>>
>
>  You might check with these folks = http://fedoralegacy.org/
> Their website indicates they're supporting 9 .   -----gary

Thanks Gary,
I will give a one try.
The problem that I had was that not only I cannot do any update of the OS,  
but also some programs, like LaTeX, do not do what they are supposed to do.
So if I do not find any solution quickly, I will install it in the mean  
time under Windows(poor me), and reinstall the server with Fedora or  
Centos.

Thanks again
roland