Updating Busted By Busy Servers?

billg billg at f-m.fm
Wed Dec 3 00:18:36 UTC 2003


True, but up2date shouldn't produce bogus error messages when a server is
busy.

billg


On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:07:52 -0600, "Chris Adams" <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
said:
> Once upon a time, Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu> said:
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, billg wrote:
> > > Eventually updated everything I need successfully, but 'twas a pain.
> > Had the same thing happen. Yep, their servers are pegged because everyone 
> > is trying to download a corrupt 40 meg kernel source file and a kernel 
> > update from Fedora, and a non-corrupted kernel update for RedHat 7-9.
> 
> That's what mirrors are for! :-)





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