Re: Update Package Index Fails

Ed> 500 AUTH not understood The XEmacs FTP server doesn't do the FTP AUTH (authorization, but you probably _did_ guess that much :-) protocol. Overly helpful (in this case, spelled R E D H A T) ftp clients attempt it without being asked to; this causes the error return from the server, which confuses the XEmacs FTP driver program, EFS. Check the man page for "ftp" and find the command-line switch to turn off auto-AUTH negotiation (I don't know what it might be called, I don't use Red Hat, but IIRC the switch was -g; check that and see if the description rings a bell) and add that switch to `efs-ftp-program-args' using M-x customize-variable. I thought this was supposed to be fixed a long, long time ago (about 3 years by now). It's possible you have a very old version of EFS, in which case _manually_ fetching the EFS package from ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/efs-$VERSION-pkg.tar.gz and untarring it in the xemacs-packages hierarchy should do the trick. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.