RE: up2date

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 03-Mar-2001 dTd opined:
> I am wondering if there is a problem with redhats up2date servers? I
> have
> upgraded most all of my packages with rpms downloaded and stored on cd
> from updates.redhat.com . This current OS is installed from the respin
> isos and should be fully upgraded to the lates packages excluding bind
> (see my other post), but I am trying to use up2date to check for newer
> versions and more updates and recieve the message after it downloads
> list
> of all packages, checks my installed packages, downloads downloads list
> of
> updated packages:
> fatal rpm error, database access error. Is this on my end? I assume not
> as
> up2date reads my installed packages right off the bat before it
> downloads
> the list of new packages.

I don't know if it's right, but the only way I've been able to get this
to work is running as root. Is that your problem?

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