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

Andre Costa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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