yum update server + Network question.

Wed Jun 16 01:54:34 UTC 2004

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 02:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >>Graeme Nichols wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hello Folks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the
> >>>>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for
> >>>>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error
> >>>>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/
> >>>>
> >>>>That's not correct.  If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by
> >>>>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is
> >>>>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer).
> >>>>
> >>>>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be:
> >>>>
> >>>>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
> >>>>
> >>>>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow
> >>>their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which
> >>>included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm
> >>>packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several
> >>>packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than
> >>>they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they
> >>>advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses:
> >>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/
> >>>
> >>>as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-)
> >>
> >>Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf:
> >>
> >>[base]
> >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
> >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch
> >>
> >>[updates]
> >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates
> >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch 
> >>
> >>
> >>[legacy-utils]
> >>name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever
> >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch
> >>
> >>And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives.  The list
> >>is here:
> >>
> >>	http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on
> > their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above.
> 
> Their file should work too.  You may wish to add some of their mirror
> servers to your yum.conf so if the main servers are busy, you hit one of
> the mirrors automatically.  To do that, simply add the URL to "baseurl="
> equate, but DON'T add "baseurl=" to it.  In other words, to have two
> servers:
> 
> 	baseurl=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download.....
> 	        http://mirror.server.tld/somedirectory...
> 
> It is very important to ONLY have the "baseurl=" on the first server.
> If you put it on the mirrors, it'll confuse yum.  I do this for my 
> FC1/FC2 systems.  I have one main and up to four mirrors.
> 
> > On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been
> > working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second
> > port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to
> > the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop
> > machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask
> > (255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router,
> > 192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may
> > cause problems is that both machines have the same name,
> > localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the
> > laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain?
> > I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing
> > up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. Any advice very welcome.
> 
> Well, not really.  localhost.localdomain ties to the IP address
> 127.0.0.1 over the loopback interface, "lo".  While it's better to have
> a "real" hostname, it's not absolutely necessary.
> 
> The odds are that your laptop isn't picking up the DNS service, so a
> hostname won't resolve to an IP address.  If you can ping outside 
> addresses but not hostnames, then that's your problem.  To confirm it,
> try doing something such as "dig www.redhat.com" and see if you get a
> response.  If not, then DNS is not set up.  Make sure the laptop's
> /etc/resolv.conf file looks like your desktop machine's file.

Thanks for all your help Rick. Much appreciated. The laptop was able to
access the internet when I fired it up this morning. I don't know why it
didn't work yesterday when I connected it to the switch. I checked out
all you said above and all was OK. Maybe finger trouble again...  you
know, loose connection between it and the brain :-) Anyway, things are
lookin' good now!

-- 

Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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