changing yum timeout and retries...

[Mike Chalmers]

Anyone know how to change the timeout and retries for yum. For
instance supposedly, changing  /etc/yum.conf should have worked. But
when I opened /yum.conf all I didn't get the option to change the
settings that needed to be changed in the yum.conf file because all I
got was this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
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I thought that there would be a timeout and retries option. Anyone
know how to change the yum timeout and retries settings?

Thanks,
Mike