I have some machines running (of course ;) SuSE Linux, but there is one thing that would be really cool: when an advisory comes out, I have to update every single machine. ok, this is not so bad, because there are things to do manually (restarting daemons, etc.), BUT a tool doing the following would make it much easier for me to keep up-to-date (because sometimes i forget to update a machine, or don't update all packages): The tool should read a list of all current rpm's from a website (maybe two websites: security important and general updates). Of course version numbers must be given!) Then it compares the version numbers from the homepage with the RPM-Database. The output should be a list of download urls with the missing (newer) packages. You could also give a parameter like "--source ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at:2100/suse/i386" giving the primary download source (so ftp.suse.com doesn't get overloaded). bye! Markus -- _____________________________ Markus Gaugusch ICQ 11374583 markus@gaugusch.dhs.org Linux only user