Ian P. Thomas said: > The reason I'm attempting to use this option is because up2date has > failed to complete a complete run of updating my system. It times out when > attempting to download the packages I need to update. You want to edit the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file. > Without the > '--serverURL' option, up2date seemed to go through a list of > mirrors on its own, using this URL as the value of serverURL, > > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC This is a URL for RHN, not the yum backend. -- William Hooper