On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:27:22 -0500
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thank you Troy
The cause has been found and this time it was not related to the
repository but client side. That said its not the first time a user had
this problem so I will follow your advice.
> First - Put another line in your repo's. At the very least, if you want to
> connect the the main repo, put in a line to http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/ and
> then ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/.
> http works better with yum, and is the reason that all the recent yum-conf's
> originally point to http. We found out that yum (actually python's geturl)
> does some odd stuff with ftp protocols.
Ok I will do this in our documentation now.
> Second - Next time you get this error, let me know. Tell me when (down to the
> second if possible, we get several hundred hits a second usually) and from what
> IP address. I'll look through the server logs, and maybe something will show up.
Ok definitely.
Thanks for the support.
Regards
Owen