Good tip. I'll keep it in mind. On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 09:27, Connie Sieh wrote: > 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 > > -- Miles Egan <miles@xxxxxxxxx>