problem using up2date

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:50 +0100, Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a newbie using FC2. I tried to update FC2 using "up2date" but after a 
> while I had this error:
> 
> [root at umbriel lib]# up2date -v -l  --proxy proxy.ua.pt:3128
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
> Traceback (most recent call last):
...
> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
> 
> 
> Is this just an error due to connection timed out or is this something else?

The problem is that you are using the primary site which gets overloaded
and the connection times out.  Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and
configure a mirror close to you from: 

  http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

Phil