On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 20:13, Danilo Camara wrote: > I set up a HTTP Yum server and it is working fine. But in the server, I > can not run Yum client with file:// protocol URL. What I get is: > > ---------- > > # yum list updates > > Not using ftp or http for servers, Aborting - > file:///home/Packages/Linux/RedHat/8.0/ what version of yum are you using? > Any sugestions? up until recent versionf of the 1.0 series file:// url support did not exist. > Also, I think it just took too long to download all the needed headers, > even the client and the server being the SAME machine. I know there is a > lot of HTTP overhead when you download MANY small files, but more than 1 > second for each file was too long. (The CPU reported average 90% idle > time during download). If the http server was on your local machine it could very well have been disk access. -sv
