akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:41:42PM +0530, ashwin kesavan iyengar wrote: > >> Hi, >> I tried to update my system using yum update option. While the >> update was running the connection between my computer & ISP failed. But >> yum continues tries to receive updates from the server, without knowing >> the connection has failed. Then i have to kill the process with ctrl-c. >> Is there a way to make yum to automatically stop upon >> connection failure. >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> with regards, ashwin >> > The -R command in yum might help you in this but I am not sure. Look > at the man page. You misunderstand what the -R does. It is useful when running yum from a cron job so that your traffic is randomized (instead of all the machines hitting a server at the same time). To the OP, look in your yum.conf and see what "retries" is set to. -- William Hooper
