-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-03-08 at 04:32 +0100, Malte Gell wrote:
When susewatcher fails to connect, it doesn't report "no updates available" it reports "failed to connect" and turns the little green dot yellow.
But we were talking about using mirror URLs for YOU/susewatcher manually put into /etc/youservers and in this case you do get a green dot creating a wrong sense of security. Of course, sooner or later the mirror will provide new patches, but this way one would be left unnoticed how long the main site was down. Finally, puting the user´s attention to a higher level from time to time might not be the worst thing ;-)
There are two diferent problems here. One, is YOU getting the list of mirrors, and this is what is faling. If I remember correctly, this is done by http, and from a diferent SuSE server (the web page). Two, is getting the patches; trying to get them from the ftp.suse site often fails because the server is relatively small and can't handle so many requests: that's why they tell you to use mirrors instead. So, manually entering a mirror works. In fact, I haven't noticed the problem. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEDv6atTMYHG2NR9URAtptAJ41hda3uaEJrLP2r9MwVE9Tb76iPgCfbcls 1Xf0QsthysLZltS7J5IwLck= =TFDS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----