Hi Troy,

This is what I have on my SL303 machine:

[sl303server]
name=SL 303 main
baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/SL/RPMS/

[sl303errata]
name=SL 303 errata
baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/

[sl303contrib]
name=SL 303 contributed rpms
baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/contrib/RPMS/

within /etc/yum.conf, and I still experience the problem reported by Kyriakos
below.

Michael.

> Hello,
> I would recommend switching your scripts to point to 
> ftp.scientificlinux.org.  linux21 is currently going through an 
> upgrade, 
> (both hardware and software) and when it is stable, will be the new 
> ftp.scientificlinux.org as it once was. Yes, currently right now it 
> has extrememly fast download times.  But it also might be down for a 
> day or two, and things like what you are showing might show up. Troy
> 
> Kyriakos G. Ginis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Lately I have noticed that the nightly yum cronjob on some of our servers
> > (running SL303) fails with the message:
> > 
> > --------------------
> > YUM - errata
> > --------------------
> > Damaged or Bad header.info from sl303 errata
> > This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info on a
repository.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Investigating this a bit, I found out that the errors seem to come from
> > ftp://linux21.fnal.gov, which happens to be one of the servers in the
> > default /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.secondary file. For example, running yum by
> > hand with a modified yum.conf pointing at linux21.fnal.gov, this is what
> > I get:
> > 
> > [root@aurum 02:34:37 ~ ]# cat /etc/yum.conf
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > pkgpolicy=newest
> > tolerant=1
> > exactarch=1
> > 
> > [sl303server]
> > name=SL 303 main
> > baseurl=ftp://linux21.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/SL/RPMS/
> > 
> > [sl303errata]
> > name=SL 303 errata 
> > baseurl=ftp://linux21.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> > [root@aurum 02:34:41 ~ ]# yum update
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: SL 303 errata
> > Damaged or Bad header.info from SL 303 errata
> > This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info on a
repository.
> > 
> > 
> > Has anybody else noticed this?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >
> 
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