Hosting a local YaST2 on-line update server
Hi, We use SuSE Linux on about 8 servers here, and we do on-line updates as often as needed. I have been thinking that having eight connections all downloading the same thing is a massive waste of bandwidth :) Is there anyway I can set up a YaST2 on-line update server so that my local servers update via that, this way I won't be wasting SuSE's and my own bandwidth. I know its an ftp server, but what files/folders would I need to copy from the server? I presume that I would need everything in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2 but are there any other files to actually tell on-line update whats new? Thanks in advance... -- Thanks Andrew McCall Internet System Administrator I.C.T. Division Oldham MBC Civic Centre West Street Oldham OL1 1UU Tel : 0161 911 3990 Fax : 0161 911 3998 Email : it.andrew.mccall@oldham.gov.uk ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.oldham.gov.uk **********************************************************************
On Thursday 27 June 2002 12.55, Andrew McCall wrote:
I presume that I would need everything in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2 but are there any other files to actually tell on-line update whats new?
The files that tell YOU what's new are the ones in the "patches" and "patches.cont" directories. You get those when you grab the directory you mention. Note that when you put the directory on your internal ftp server, you need to maintain the directory structure from i386 down. Putting the 7.2 directory in the top level directory will fail. /pub/SuSE/i386/update/7.2 for example, will work. Then give "/pub/SuSE" as "directory name on server" to the online update clients. regards Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
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Anders Johansson
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Andrew McCall