[rhn-users] up2date with non-RHN sources

[Clifford Perry]

Paul Murtaugh wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this list, but
>I'm at my wit's end :}
>
>I'm running RHEL AS 4 and have been trying for some time
>to install mplayer, which is not part of the RH distribution.
>The package is available at dag's repository, and I've tried
>using yum and up2date to grab it, without success. I should
>say that up2date is working fine when connecting to the RHN.
>
>Here's one of my recent attempts. I can access the URL with
>my browser, but:
>
>----
>
>[]# up2date --serverUrl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/ mplayer
>http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/ foo
>http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/ foo
>and so on
>
>[]# tail /var/log/up2date
>[Fri Nov  4 22:42:28 2005] up2date updating login info
>[Fri Nov  4 22:42:28 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
>[Fri Nov  4 22:45:37 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 
>'Connection timed out'), attempt #1
>[Fri Nov  4 22:48:51 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 
>'Connection timed out'), attempt #2
>[Fri Nov  4 22:52:05 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 
>'Connection timed out'), attempt #3
>:
>[Fri Nov  4 22:58:33 2005] up2date Error communicating with server. The 
>message was:
>Connection timed out
>
>----
>
>Does anyone know what's going on here, or how I can further
>troubleshoot it?
>
>-Paul
>
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>
up2date is not able to make a connection to apt.sw.be - do you maybe 
need to reconfigure up2date for a HTTP proxy to establish the connection?

Cliff.

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