Miles, We also pre seed the yum headers area so that the first time yum runs it does not have to download all of the headers. -Connie Sieh Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:06, Miles Egan wrote: > > I'm considering rolling yum out to several hundred machines and the only > > thing holding me back is the load so many simultaneous updates will put > > on the web server. > > > > Would it make any sense to implement a random delay option in yum for > > staggered updates or should I just wrap the yum invocation with my own > > delay script? > > read the yum man page > > I think you'll find yum -R does just that > > > we have a similar problem :) > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >