We already have our up2date / yum repo. What we need is to (minimalistically) modify the clients to use it. Given: [root at test ~]# cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 fiftyone localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.67 mirrorlist.centos.org [root at test ~]# curl -i "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.5&arch=i386&repo=os" HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:27:47 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://192.168.1.67/centos/4.5/os/i386/ Why does it pull data from outside??? |-sendmail(2233) |-sendmail(2241,smmsp) |-sshd(3364)-+-sshd(3367)---bash(3369)---up2date(25055) | `-sshd(25010)---bash(25012)---pstree(25064) |-syslogd(2078) |-udevd(1395) `-xinetd(2213) [root at test ~]# lsof -p 25055 | grep TCP up2date 25055 root 10u IPv4 25167 TCP test.pdinc.us:33481->66.147.238.146:http (SYN_SENT) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Craig White > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 21:36 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: ****[CentOS] Using a local mirror? > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 20:59 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > We have a rsync'ed copy of the centos distro. > > We want to point our local machines at that, what is our next step? > > > ---- > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ > > does all the lifting for you > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >