Under the heading of the only dumb question is one that isn't
asked.....

You are right.  I just tried YOU again, and it works!  It didn't two
months ago, but a lot has changed since then.  Without your prompting, I
would have, and may still, setup a mirror maintenance site.  But with
the knowledge gained from using a command line utility such as wget, and
then trying YOU again, YOU works.  That is when you change out the SUSE
maintenance site for the Novell maintenance site, and the new userid and
password (we eliminated our SUSE contract and picked up Suse support on
our general Novell contract),

But then again, I could swear that I couldn't ping anything outside the
mainframe from a freshly installed Linux image.  Interesting....two
weeks ago, I was given a new PC.  That day, I couldn't get out on the
web.  But the next day, web access wasn't a problem.  This leads me to
believe that we have a situation where a new node is installed, but it
takes some time (perhaps overnight) for the network to allow access to
the outside.  Is there such a thing in the network world?

Time to install another Linux image and see how long it takes to
initially get to the outside world.  I just gotta verify that I'm not
loosing my mind!

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

>>> "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/28/2005 6:43 PM >>>
The last time I mirrored sles9 31-bit it was 2 to 3 GB , but that was
around June 2005 I think, haven't done it since then, it's no longer my
task.

You say wget works fine on zLinux SLES9, but not from YOU. From my
experience with YOU it's a matter of navigating and filling in YAST's
YOU screen fields appropriately; I may have some SLES9 YOU notes that
detail that, I'll check tomorrow when I'm in the office.
 An alternative to using YAST and YOU is using the online_update
command line that YOU calls: one of its modes runs wget to connect to
patch site and download the patches; since you're successful with wget
you'd probably be successful with online_update; I have notes on that
too if you want them.
Regards,
John Romanowski

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