On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 18:07, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 10.10.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 0:45: > > > How do I make yum *itself* use this mnt/mntyum for the cache? > > > > Yes, I have searched. Perhaps I am using the wrong keywords. > > man yum.conf > > --> cachedir > directory where yum should store its cache and db files. > > > =G > > For the future you should memorize: > > apropos yum > man -k yum > (where yum is just an example for something you search manpage help > about) > > Alexander > of course I man'd it. my man pages make no mention of cachedir however, I was an idiot not to see it in the yum.conf in the first place....duh. was interesting to also find out that I had to create /var/log/yum.log before it would also log to the /mnt dir. thanks. =G