On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:31, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi > It's not quite true that passive mode won't work. I'm quite certain that the > fix isn't going to get into the official yum distro because it means messing > with your basic python libraries, but there is a fix. > > Here is what we do. > Copy your /usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py to /usr/share/yum/ftplib.py > > Then edit /usr/share/yum/ftplib.py > and change the line > self.passiveserver = 0 > to > self.passiveserver = 1 > > This will cause yum 1.0.x to work in passive mode. > > Troy > Hey thanks a bunch that works great. it is only an issue with one machine because the others are not behind the firewall. Thanks again. > nathan r. hruby wrote: > > 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 > > -- Dr. Alastair Neil Unix Systems Administrator IT&E Labs George Mason University (703) 993-3953
