up2date question

[Will Backman]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 09:36, Bob Barnes wrote:
> OK I'm back and online with FC 2x2. Did an upgrade from FC1 just now and 
> all seems to be working well. At least the internet connect is working 
> through eth0 like it should be. One question that's relatively important 
> though. According to up2date I have 170 updates with 0 ignored. Don't 
> mind that at all if it's correct. BUT when I get around to the "fetching 
> rpmheader cdrdao-1.1.8-3" in the progress dialog it hangs. Let it go for 
> about 20 minutes twice and the same hang same spot. I have a cable modem 
> that averages 200KBps in linux and winxppro so I know it's not that as I 
> did a couple test d/ls prior to writing you all and it was fine. Getting 
> the updates from fedora core rawhide. Should I change something 
> somewhere for a better feed?
> 
I find it is always helpful to rm /var/spool/up2date/* every once and a
while.  Makes up2date fetch fresh headers.