opensll req -new: unkown option -new!?

My cert expired so I'm trying to renew.  Because the Organizational Unit field is now required, I'm trying to recreate a new CSR from my existing key:

# openssl req -new -key www.xyz.com.key -out www.xyz.com.csr
unknown option -new
req [options] <infile >outfile
where options  are
........ etc..
-new           new request.
........ etc.


I'm running FC6 with latest openssl-0.9.8b-15.fc6.   I'm totally perplexed as to why -new is an unknown option.  Any ideas?

Thanks,    
-Eric Wood