Hello! I have 5 machine on the local net, one is a file server. I have an nfs export of one of my partitions. I have all of my downloads stored on this partition and my config files use that as the repository holder. /dev/hdb1 is an xfs file system mounted on /prtdata /prtdata is exported by nfs and all other machines mount it on /prtdata. /prtdata has the following directories /prtdata/fc4yum /prtdata/yum.repos.d /prtdata has the following file /prtdata/yum.conf Below is the contents of /prtdata/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/prtdata/fc4yum reposdir=/prtdata/yum.repos.d debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d Pay special attention to the cachedir and reposdir as they are pointing to /prtdata. Below is a simple one line bash script that I have in all of my /usr/bin directories on every machine. #!/bin/bash # # # A simple script to use yum with a non-standard configuration. # sudo yum -c /prtdata/yum.conf update $1 Note: I have prefaced the command with a sudo, I do not normally become root to do anything. I simply use sudo. Also, the $1 would be expanded if present, just incase I only want to update a specific package. Good luck! John Pierce -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
