When updating via YOU the download stops at 22% in the "connection and data transfer" which is the first part of the download. The update stops at harden_suse_1. So I tought this is a problem with the that particular update. It seems not I think, after investigating the directory: /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.2/patches, it appeared that the update file for harden_suse_1 is there and contains updated information in it (1076 B). The next file postfix-1 appeared to be 0 bytes, so I concluded that postfix-1 is the causing the error. I made it file: postfix-1.20011015.installed That seems to have effect, but now the download stops at 24% which is at the next file: perl-Cyrus-SIEVE-managesieve-1.20011015.new. The next file to be processed is now again, the postfix-1 file.... This is all in automatic mode and connected to ftp.suse.com, Ah just checked in manual there is the same problem.... How to proceed... I would like to be able to use YOU again :((( -- Richard