6:54am Richard said: >The instalation here was a bit changed now i have a gateway/firewall >dedicated amchine with some servers on it. It occured to me that if >i had both machines use the same downloaded files in /var/spool/up2date >i would save download time and save some bandwidth on the RH server. Take a look at the -k/--packagedir option. It will create only symlinks in /var/spool/up2date and allow all your servers to share a centralized pile of rpms. # up2date -k/inst/linux/redhat/updates/9/en/os/* -i ethereal You must first populate the packagedir. Which can be done easily by syncing the updates/9 directory on your favorite Red Hat mirror site. I do this in a couple different data centers. And as a good colo neighbor, share it out to my LAN peers. Now up2date runs quicker (no delay for download) and less upstream bandwidth is consumed. However for ethical/soapbox reasons, I only allow access to LAN peers I know and trust to have paid for the RHN. And it behooves my peers to ensure they are using the RPM-GPG-KEY to ensure that I don't do something evil. ../C
