Re: [OT?] Is it possible to increase socket timeout for yum?

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:55 -0300, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see these more often than I would like to:
> 
> http://dl.atrpms.net/mirrors/fedoracore/updates/4/i386/kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror.
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/splint-3.1.1-10.fc4.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror.
> ...
> 
> I know that the real cause for all this is probably my ISP connection
> quality (I have a 256Kb cable connection, which usually performs just
> fine), but I was wondering if it would be possible to increase the
> socket timeout value a bit to try to make yum more tolerant to slower
> connections... is such a thing feasible?
> 

in your yum.conf set:
timeout=some_time_in_seconds.

the default is 30s.

if you wanna increase it just set:
timeout=45
or
timeout=60

-sv