problem using up2date

[Rui Rodrigues]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:06, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:50 +0100, Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a newbie using FC2. I tried to update FC2 using "up2date" but after
> > a while I had this error:
> >
> > [root at umbriel lib]# up2date -v -l  --proxy proxy.ua.pt:3128
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> ...
>
> > urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
> >
> >
> > Is this just an error due to connection timed out or is this something
> > else?
>
> The problem is that you are using the primary site which gets overloaded
> and the connection times out.  Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and
> configure a mirror close to you from:
>
>   http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
> Phil

It worked.
Thanks

Rui