On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:58:19AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > make sure he has timeout=40 in his yum.conf - see if that helps at all. This defaults to 30? Hmmmm..... Index: docs/yum.conf.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/yum/cvs/yum/docs/yum.conf.5,v retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -r1.30 yum.conf.5 --- docs/yum.conf.5 16 Jun 2005 12:23:31 -0000 1.30 +++ docs/yum.conf.5 20 Jun 2005 12:37:43 -0000 @@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ \fBthrottle\fR is expressed as a data rate (bytes/sec) then this option is ignored. Default is `0' (no bandwidth throttling). +.IP \timeout \fR +The number of seconds to wait for socket operations when retrieving +information from the network. Increase this if you consistently get `timed +out' errors. The default is `30'. + .IP \fBcommands\fR List of functional commands to run if no functional commands are specified on the command line (eg. "update foo bar baz quux"). None of the short options -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
