Aha! found the issue > Yum should be getting openldap-servers version 2.2.13-12.el4_8.3 > Do you not have your sl-security repo enabled?
It was enabled, but, because we had 'protect=1' on sl-base it wasn't being picked up: [root@vtb-generic-34 yum.repos.d]# yum search openldap-servers Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "kernel-module" plugin Searching Packages: Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 1561 packages excluded due to repository protections openldap-servers.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4 sl-base Matched from: openldap-servers openldap-servers-sql.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4 sl-base Matched from: openldap-servers-sql one quick edit later: [root@vtb-generic-34 yum.repos.d]# vim sl4x.repo [root@vtb-generic-34 yum.repos.d]# yum search openldap-servers Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "kernel-module" plugin Searching Packages: Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 50 packages excluded due to repository protections openldap-servers.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4 sl-base Matched from: openldap-servers openldap-servers-sql.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4 sl-base Matched from: openldap-servers-sql openldap-servers.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4_8.3 sl-errata Matched from: openldap-servers openldap-servers-sql.x86_64 2.2.13-12.el4_8.3 sl-errata Matched from: openldap-servers-sql which looks far healthier Thanks Andrew
