yum update server + Network question.

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 02:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Graeme Nichols wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Graeme Nichols wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Graeme Nichols wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hello Folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the
>>>>>>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for
>>>>>>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error
>>>>>>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That's not correct.  If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by
>>>>>>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is
>>>>>>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow
>>>>>their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which
>>>>>included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm
>>>>>packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several
>>>>>packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than
>>>>>they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they
>>>>>advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses:
>>>>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/
>>>>>
>>>>>as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-)
>>>>
>>>>Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf:
>>>>
>>>>[base]
>>>>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
>>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch
>>>>
>>>>[updates]
>>>>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates
>>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>[legacy-utils]
>>>>name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever
>>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch
>>>>
>>>>And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives.  The list
>>>>is here:
>>>>
>>>>	http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on
>>>their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above.
>>
>>Their file should work too.  You may wish to add some of their mirror
>>servers to your yum.conf so if the main servers are busy, you hit one of
>>the mirrors automatically.  To do that, simply add the URL to "baseurl="
>>equate, but DON'T add "baseurl=" to it.  In other words, to have two
>>servers:
>>
>>	baseurl=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download.....
>>	        http://mirror.server.tld/somedirectory...
>>
>>It is very important to ONLY have the "baseurl=" on the first server.
>>If you put it on the mirrors, it'll confuse yum.  I do this for my 
>>FC1/FC2 systems.  I have one main and up to four mirrors.
>>
>>
>>>On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been
>>>working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second
>>>port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to
>>>the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop
>>>machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask
>>>(255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router,
>>>192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may
>>>cause problems is that both machines have the same name,
>>>localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the
>>>laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain?
>>>I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing
>>>up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. Any advice very welcome.
>>
>>Well, not really.  localhost.localdomain ties to the IP address
>>127.0.0.1 over the loopback interface, "lo".  While it's better to have
>>a "real" hostname, it's not absolutely necessary.
>>
>>The odds are that your laptop isn't picking up the DNS service, so a
>>hostname won't resolve to an IP address.  If you can ping outside 
>>addresses but not hostnames, then that's your problem.  To confirm it,
>>try doing something such as "dig www.redhat.com" and see if you get a
>>response.  If not, then DNS is not set up.  Make sure the laptop's
>>/etc/resolv.conf file looks like your desktop machine's file.
> 
> 
> Thanks for all your help Rick. Much appreciated. The laptop was able to
> access the internet when I fired it up this morning. I don't know why it
> didn't work yesterday when I connected it to the switch. I checked out
> all you said above and all was OK. Maybe finger trouble again...  you
> know, loose connection between it and the brain :-)

Ah.  I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between
the keyboard and ground".  I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-)

> Anyway, things are
> lookin' good now!

Glad to hear it.
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