William L. Maltby wrote:
To the OP: with 500+ machines(?), would you benefit from having a local
repo that you could manage to be sure that all your nodes "sing from the
same sheet of music"? The lists have advice on this if you need it.
With Centos 3.x you could easily pull things through a caching proxy by
setting http_proxy in the environment from the command like:
http_proxy=myproxy.mydomain.com yum update.
and any number of machines at a location would only have to download a
needed file once (assuming your proxy is configured to cache large
files). However, newer releases use a mirrorlist approach that makes
each machine pick a different url, defeating the caching. I thought I
saw something about 5.x having a way to restore the old way without
being tied to a single repository, but I've forgotten it now.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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