I'm guessing this is coming via rhnsd - I see that it's configured to re-run every 4 hours.

Still, not sure why things aren't completing? Or, I'm not sure if they are. It's wreaking havoc on my servers - causing permission changes on directories, etc. Any thoughts as to why it would be doing this now? It's been going about 24 hours now. I'm looking at the up2date log, don't see anything standing out.

Thanks in advance for any help! I can pass along any more info, if useful!

rhnsd is the service that is set to run every 4 hours, one suggestion is to run it manually, and see if it completes.

why not do an rpm -qV and verify that the rpm installed correctly on one of the ones installed automatically by rhnsd.

Thanks - it seems to have stopped. For future reference - it's just "rpm -qV <package>"? For example, I see the last thing updated was gzip-1.3.3-17.rhel4. However, if I run "rpm -qV gzip" I get no output.