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Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site

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Lots of people ask me how do I change the Up2date program on either redhat or Fedora?

So basically you edit the file called sources which is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn

There is a list of local sites for the UK which carry mirrors but the one I use is zeniiia

Just add the entries in the file above like so….

yum fedora-core-2

 http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/

 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/

 http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/2/i386/os/

 

yum updates-released-fc2

 

 http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora

/linux/core/updates/2/i386

 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora

/linux/core/updates/2/i386/

 http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/2/i386

this will then look at the site in the uk first rather than trying to go to the main redhat site.

Hope that helps you out.

NB: without the line breaks, had to do that to fit the urls on the blog page.

Samba 3.0.6

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Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6.

Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it.

I did have an odd problem where from time to time the windows drives mounted on the linux boxes seemed to hang.  This appears at first look to have now gone away.  Also the memory seemed to clock up really fast on the older version of Samba 3.0.5 and this doesnt seem to be happening, the memory is going up like there is a leak but much slower.

My linux machine is a mini-itx v800.