Autoupdate help

[bluegroper]

AUTOUPDATE is mostly better than up2date.

I've been trying to use autoupdate to find updates of itself.
It almost works, except that it fails with the following message:

Error: Failed to ftp: /pub/teschl/autoupdate/autoupdate-cfg-redhat-4.8.4-1.noarch.rpm: Connection closed

My autoupdate.dld file follows. Am I doing something wrong here ?
I'd be grateful for any suggestions why the ftp server is rejecting my requests.
TIA's



# /etc/autoupdate.d/autoupdate.dld
# Download configuration file for autoupadte updates
# *** Please choose a mirror close to you! ***
Host=planetmirror.com

# Protocol (defaults to ftp)
Protocol=ftp

# older versions of webmin use some non-standard rpm names
RPMNameWarnings=0

User=anonymous
Pass=anonymous@nowhere.com

# If you want to override the default from the config file
#Passive=1

# Should we retry if our first login attempt fails? Useful for busy
# mirrors.
FTPRetry=5

# How long should we wait between two connection attempts?
FTPWait=5

# In general, only updated rpms will be downloaded. However, if set to 1,
# new rpms which are not in the provides data base are downloaded
# so that their dependency information can be added to the provides data
# base. This is needed for the dependency resolution and should be set to
# 1 at least for your distribution updates. If set to 2, all new rpms will
# be downloaded.
DldAll=1

# Descend directories recursively at the remote site?
DldRecursive=0

Dir=/pub/teschl/autoupdate/

 

[Norwich]

Can you ftp to other sites? If so, then planetmirror.com could be down. Try conencting to the site directly using the ftp from a shell console and then navigate (cd etc) to the folder concerned to make sure that is available. If you have problems, check the autoupdate config and try another mirror site.

If you generally cannot ftp to anywhere - try setting "passive" in case it is a firewall issue at you end - or reconfigure the firewall to allow active ftp if you have rights to.

 

[bluegroper]

1. Can ftp other sites, thats what autoupdate does mostly.
2. planetmirror is not down, I can ws-ftp to it.
3. No firewall issues (I think).
4. Will try ftp step-by-step from console.
5. Will keep poking around to solve this.
Thx for your suggestions.

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