On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:10:21AM -0400, Magnus wrote:
Let's say Joe has 50 RHEL servers, all pretty much identical, and properly licensed. There is a flurry of security activity one week and it takes about 50MB of new packages to patch one system. That's not much of a reach. Each of the 50 servers downloads 50MB of packages through https (i.e. not cached anywhere) over Joe's single business class DSL connection. 2500MB of downloads, split up across 50 clients, all hitting a DSL connection at once (not to mention the RHN servers). This is lunacy.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date , change
storageDir[comment]=Where to store packages and other data when they are retrieved storageDir=/your_NFS_storage/var/spool/up2date
and
keepAfterInstall[comment]=Keep packages on disk after installation keepAfterInstall=1
There is a risk associated in the sense that there is no synchronization of the downloads, and I don't know what would happen if machine A and machine B try to download the same RPM at the same time, but the worse which can happen is a corrupted package which will be detected by the MD5 checksum check of rpm, will be reported and manual intervention can then clean it up.
Daniel