Nils-Olov Fransson wrote:
This is how I do. May be someone have a better solution but it works fine for me so far.
I use wget to keep a mirror of one of the mirrors updat on my own harddisk. Crontab runs this twice a week (thats enough for me). This is the line as crontab -l shows it: "20 3 * * 3,6 /usr/bin/wget --mirror --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=7 --directory-prefix=/suse/i386/update ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/update/8.0"
Then I have disabled Yast to upload a list of mirrors by changing in /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate to 'YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no"'
On the clients I added a line to /etc/suseservers: "nfs://192.168.0.1/suse" before all ftp lines. this makes 192.168.0.1 default server for updating.
I hope this can be an alternative for you.
Nils-Olov
Thanks for this information but I think that it goes far beyond what I do with my system. I'll keep it mind for when I progress further along my learning curve in dealing with Linux. Cheers.