6:32pm William Hooper said: > >Curtis Doty said: >> 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. > >Is it possible to just use the same directory structure as the mirror? Yes. The * glob expands accordingly.
