On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Alastair Neil wrote: > Hi > > I am new to the list and I'm having a problem with 7.3 clients. I have > set up a yum repository to patch a number of RH 7.x vintage and RH 9 > boxes. The repository itself is a RH9 box running only vsftpd. The RH9 > clients work fine, 7.3 clients,however, are timing out when issuing a > nslt command for the header.info file. The problem seems to be that the > 1.0.3 yum client doesn't use passive mode. I can grab the files by hand > using ftp, but see the same timeout if I turn off passive mode. The > repository box and the clients are on either sides of a firewall. > Passive mode doesn't work in yum-1.0x and probably never will. Either make the firewall deal with active or upgrade the 7.2 boxes to yum-2.x using the freshrpms.net yum builds (which also includes upgrading rpm on these machines as well) -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
