On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 11:14, daniel wrote: > wanting to keep my conscience happy, i'm trying to set a up a personal > up2date server that i can access from a single location to keep all of my > linux boxes current. ... > 1. set up an ftp server on one box that's visible to the world.
Any FTP server will do, but if you're worried about WU, then HTTP (apache) will work just as well, and you won't have to worry about the traditional problems of WU-FTPd. > 2. on the same server, write a script that checks my nearest > mirror for new rpms and downloads _all_ rpms i don't have yet. I use rsync for my apt server (I don't use up2date :) > 3. configure up2date on each client to use my server instead > of redhat's update server. > - how? You can probably use "current": ftp://ftp.biology.duke.edu/pub/admin/current
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