On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Alastair Neil wrote:

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> Also if you have iptables running you may have problems because SL seem to
> want to use ftp for serving their repos.

If you are running the default iptables there is no issue with ftp.
If you block outbound ftp then there would be a issue.

-Connie Sieh
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> On 10/12/06, Ioannis Vranos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Ana Vasan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >     I am newbie working in Scientific Linux only for the past 2 weeks.
> > The yum command is showing error
> > >
> > > Setting up repositories
> > >
> > frp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/43/i386/SL/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:
> > [Errno 4] IO trying other mirror
> > > cannot open /read repomd.xml file for repository sl-base
> > > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from sl-base
> > > [Errno: 256] No more mirrors to try
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any Help.
> >
> >
> > It was probably a temporary error, perhaps the server was mirroring
> > another server at the
> > time.
> >
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> Also if you have iptables running you may have problems because SL seem to want to use ftp for serving their repos.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ioannis Vranos</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">
> [log in to unmask]</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ana Vasan wrote:<br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am newbie working in Scientific Linux only for the past 2 weeks. The yum command is showing error
> <br>&gt;<br>&gt; Setting up repositories<br>&gt; frp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/43/i386/SL/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IO trying other mirror<br>&gt; cannot open /read repomd.xml file for repository sl-base
> <br>&gt; failure: repodata/repomd.xml from sl-base<br>&gt; [Errno: 256] No more mirrors to try<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thanks in advance for any Help.<br><br><br>It was probably a temporary error, perhaps the server was mirroring another server at the
> <br>time.<br></blockquote></div><br>
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