Jorge Fábregas said: > Hello all, > > > Could someone please explain me (or poing me to the right direction) on > how the yum-mirror directive on /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources really works? /usr/share/doc/up2date-x.x.x/mirrors.txt (replace x.x.x with your version number) > Let say > I have 4 mirrors for my main updates repository. How is that up2date will > cycle thru these 4? No. Up2date will "...randomly pick one of the mirrors...to use for the duration of the up2date session". > Is there a timeout? If a certain site doesn't > respond in certain time..will it try the next one on the list? No. > How much > time is this? Does it cycle thru them in alphabetic order? No. > If it connects > to the first server successfully and then 5 minutes later it looses the > connection (they may be rebooting the server) does up2date will fail? or > try the next one? Assuming it is the same up2date session, it will fail. -- William Hooper
