Re: [OT?] Is it possible to increase socket timeout for yum?
Andre Costa <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:11:50 -0400 seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Thks Seth, it really couldn't be any easier than that =) Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa