Up2date not working

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 16:38, netmask wrote:
> > up2date -l
> > up2date httpd
> > or whatever
> >
> > it does nothing and locks up the terminal
> 
> I dont know of any problems myself, but I don't use up2date either.. My first 
> thing I'd do, is run 'strace up2date X'  where X is whatever commands is 
> hanging it for you.. typically this helps me in my first steps of debugging 
> anything like that.

The most likely problem is that he is not using a mirror site.  The
default redhat servers are over loaded and will not respond in the few
seconds people expect this stuff to take.  Switch to a mirror site, you
will most likely find the performance is more what you are expecting.

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