Hi, A major new release of my Yast OnlineUpdate replacement is out. Fou4s is best suited to be run as a cron job and automatically download/install update packages.

From the Changelog:

0.6.0, Wed Jun 5 2002 * Fixes for 0.5.0 + Fixed error "too many arguments", if Auto= in config file was empty or not set + lsof now uses -n parameter to disable network resolution (faster!) + If there are installation problems, a recommendation for -a option is printed + "Need to download ... packages" counted packages from remarklist too * Multiple Server support!! This should make multi-configfile "hacks" obsolete. * /etc/fou4s.conf will not be moved away anymore during RPM update. The new version is now saved as /etc/fou4s.conf.rpmnew when updating. This behaviour will be kept as long as possible from now on. * Fou4s public GPG key is now delivered with fou4s itself and not downloaded from the keyservers (some people behind proxies had problems with this). * Support for patch.rpm files (has always worked, but now it's official ;) * Use http://ftp.gwdg.de as default server, because ftp doesn't work with proxy and http is faster. BTW: you can ignore HTTP 416 errors from wget. (please change your current config file if you are updating) Fou4s is available from http://fou4s.gaugusch.at or via fou4s -u --checkfou4s && fou4s -i Bad News: SuSE has removed package description files for SuSE 6.4 and 7.0. See also the statement on my homepage. This will also break Email Server II updates. I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do. Maybe some volunteer can provide package descriptions (they are only simple text files), that point to a SuSE mirror. Fou4s could then use those package descriptions. I don't run SuSE 7.0 anymore, so don't ask Me. Fou4s checks all packages against the SuSE build key, so there won't be a security problem with trojaned packages! The only exception is fou4s itself, which is checked against fou4s@gaugusch.at regards, Markus Gaugusch -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus@gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \