I have a box that I run Red Hat 7.3 on.

I have had no problems getting updates for this PC until a couple of months ago.

I am trying to use the up2date feature to download and install them.
The program will tell me that I have updates waiting, but it gives me an error when I try to run the program. I have tried different configurations, but haven't any success in figuring out what is wrong. I have searched both google and red hat, but I've come up with little.

Here is a piece from my up2date log showing my latest attempt to run the program.

I get this weather I try to use the GUI or use the options to run w/out GUI.

Any advise/help appreciated as always!

Code:
[Sun Dec 22 05:35:18 2002] up2date new up2date run started
[Sun Dec 22 05:35:18 2002] up2date Opening rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm/ with option 0
[Sun Dec 22 05:35:19 2002] up2date updating login info
[Sun Dec 22 05:35:19 2002] up2date Opening rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm/ with option 0
[Sun Dec 22 05:35:19 2002] up2date logging into up2date server
[Sun Dec 22 05:40:21 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: EOF, attempt #1
[Sun Dec 22 05:40:26 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: EOF, attempt #2
[Sun Dec 22 05:40:31 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: EOF, attempt #3
[Sun Dec 22 05:40:36 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: EOF, attempt #4
[Sun Dec 22 05:51:15 2002] up2date A socket error occurred: EOF, attempt #5
[Sun Dec 22 05:51:15 2002] up2date Error communicating with server.  The message was:
EOF
Where it says

Code:
up2date updating login info
I was sure to be using the correct username and password.
I verified that by visiting the Red Hat Network/Eratta.

I have also disabled my firewall temporarily on that box to make sure that wasn't the problem. Possibly I shut off a service that is needed by up2date?

Thanks again!