On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:45:24PM +0800, Msquared wrote: > > There's an undocumented "timeout" option -- put "timeout=40" in > > /etc/yum.conf. (Or try even higher.) > > Please let me know if this helps. > That certainly helps, thanks. I'll crank it up a little higher, though, > as on our ssslllooowww link it still bails sometimes. Good to know. > Another problem I have discovered is that hitting ^C doesn't always cancel > the operation. Sometimes it just drops the connection on that server and > causes it to try the next server. Then this happens, it appears to be > impossible to actually kill the yum session with anything short of closing > the terminal window that is running the yum instance. Yeah, this is a known yum "feature". (Not quite a bug, because some people like it.) But as I understand it, it's hard behavior to change because of the intricacies of what python library is doing what at that exact second. Me, I just have a short list of local servers. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
