Problem solved thanks to Wichert... I used the full path of ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
and it works fine ... thanks again --jarrod On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jarrod Friedland wrote: > > deb ftp://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > > Try http instead of ftp, If you insist on using ftp (which might be a > bit slower) try ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security as the base > path. > > Wichert. > >