On 3 Sep 2004, at 18:11, Paul Jakma wrote: >> RedHat's errata in many cases can be considerably slower than that >> provided by other distros. > > Really? Yes, really - I refer you to the previously mentioned bug in grep in RH ES 3. I just did an up2date dry-run on an ES 3 box and I see there is a grep update which hopefully fixes that problem, finally. Niall