[K12OSN] Linux kernel DoS exploit -- don't need root!

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:35, Huck wrote:

> oddly enough yum takes hours to complete a simple update
> while apt-get take less than 20 minutes...

Maybe you configured apt-get to use a proxy.  If you want
yum to use a proxy you can set the usual environment variables

export http_proxy=http://your_squid_server:port
export ftp_proxy=http://your_squid_server:port
yum update

If you have several machines, let one complete the update first
so the others can pull from the cache (you probably should tweak
the squid 'maximum_object_size' setting to store rpm packages).

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com