Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb Todd Wolcott um 21:59: > I am running FC1 on a PIII 733 with 128 MB of ram. > FC1 runs generally well on my machine, but up2date has > never worked well. My connection is on the backbone > of a major U.S. research university, so speed is not > an issue. > > I just reinstalled FC1 from CD. Of course, there > were a ton of updates in the Red Hat Network Alert > tool. When I run up2date, it takes forever. Most > of the updates are coming at about 10-15k per second. > > > I know there are other tools out there to run updates, > like yum, but I want something that is automatic. I > am the type of linux user that doesn't want to touch a > command line. I am not in the computer field, I just > have a geek streak in me that is attracted to linux. > > 1) Why is up2date so slow? Is there something to > speed it up, like chances where the updates come from? You are certainly using a mirror server as source, aren't you? http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ > 2) What tools out there are there to run automatic > updates? service yum start chkconfig --level 345 yum on > Thanks, > > Todd Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 22:24:07 up 7 days, 23:58, load average: 1.38, 1.15, 1.05 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]
