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

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

Samba 3.0.6

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… Continue reading Samba 3.0.6

Colocated Servers are down

My colocated servers seem to have stopped responding, rang the datacenter Dedipower and they looked into it. There response was ————————————————————————- added by gary at Tuesday 31st of August 2004 04:58:32 PM: Hi Paul, It appeared that there was no activity on the NIC within your server. We replaced the netowrk cable with a new one and it appears everything… Continue reading Colocated Servers are down