On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:10:21AM -0400, Magnus wrote: > Let's say Joe has 50 RHEL servers, all pretty much identical, and > properly licensed. There is a flurry of security activity one week and > it takes about 50MB of new packages to patch one system. That's not > much of a reach. Each of the 50 servers downloads 50MB of packages > through https (i.e. not cached anywhere) over Joe's single business > class DSL connection. 2500MB of downloads, split up across 50 clients, > all hitting a DSL connection at once (not to mention the RHN servers). > This is lunacy. Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date , change storageDir[comment]=Where to store packages and other data when they are retrieved storageDir=/your_NFS_storage/var/spool/up2date and keepAfterInstall[comment]=Keep packages on disk after installation keepAfterInstall=1 There is a risk associated in the sense that there is no synchronization of the downloads, and I don't know what would happen if machine A and machine B try to download the same RPM at the same time, but the worse which can happen is a corrupted package which will be detected by the MD5 checksum check of rpm, will be reported and manual intervention can then clean it up. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
