Problems using up2date

[Ian P. Thomas]

I have attempted to use the following option

	--serverURL
	% sudo up2date 
--serverURL=http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/ 
--dry-run

to have up2date use a different server.  The error message I get is

	usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>]
	/usr/sbin/up2date: error: no such option: --serverURL

The manual says

	--serverURL=<url>
	Specify what server url to use.

The reason I'm attempting to use this option is because up2date has 
failed to complete a complete run
of updating my system.  It times out when attempting to download the 
packages I need to update.  Without
the '--serverURL' option, up2date seemed to go through a list of 
mirrors on its own, using this URL as the
value of serverURL,

	https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

Any other advice on getting up2date up and running?


Ian Thomas