changing yum timeout and retries...

[Michael Schwendt]

On 29/08/2007, Mike Chalmers <mikechalmers70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know how to change the timeout and retries for yum. For
> instance supposedly, changing  /etc/yum.conf should have worked. But
> when I opened /yum.conf all I didn't get the option to change the
> settings that needed to be changed in the yum.conf file because all I
> got was this:
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> keepcache=0
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> plugins=1
> metadata_expire=1800
>
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I thought that there would be a timeout and retries option. Anyone
> know how to change the yum timeout and retries settings?

You can add them. Read "man yum.conf" for available options.