up2date Configuration

Mark Farmer farmerma at cromwell.co.uk
Thu Jul 22 12:23:10 UTC 2004


Aleksandar Vestica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to configure up2date to use another mirror ?
> In 90 % of all calls of "up2date - u" I get following output:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
> using mirror:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
> using mirror: http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
> 
> My Problem: ftp.dulug.duke.edu is rather "far away" and "slow" - from
> the network point of view ;-)
> 
> Thats why I want to configure/use another mirror for updates.
> 
> Regards, Aleks.
> 
> 
> 

There are a couple of urls in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
You could try editing them - make a backup of the file first!


Mark Farmer RHCT
Linux Server Administrator





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