[LON-CAPA-users] FW: ALERT_lon: udel1, RPMS to upgrade

[H. K. Ng]

What seems to be happening is that the sites (used by CHECKRPMS) have cut 
off connections from the outside their domain or the sites are no longer 
active(?). I replaced mine with a local mirror site - trouble is every time 
there is new loncapa update, my local copy get overwritten. What is needed 
is a way to specify which site(s) to check. -hk

At 09:19 AM 4/1/04 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been getting RPM upgrade messages like this one for the last week or
>so.  When I try CHECKRPMS --download, I get a similar message and nothing
>downloads.  Is this anything that needs attention right now?
>
>Carmine
>
>Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E.
>Department of Bioresources Engineering
>Townsend Hall Room 264
>531 South College Avenue
>Newark, Delaware 19716-2140
>
>phone:  302-831-8872
>     fax:  302-831-2469
>email:  carmine@udel.edu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: www@zappa.ags.udel.edu [mailto:www@zappa.ags.udel.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:11 AM
>To: carmine@UDel.Edu
>Subject: ALERT_lon: udel1, RPMS to upgrade
>
>THIS SCRIPT IS NOW PROBING SEVERAL FTP SERVERS....
>PLEASE BE PATIENT, THIS MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES.
>Trying install.lon-capa.org...
>...cannot find ftpmirror:loncapa@install.lon-capa.org on the network
>Trying mirror.pa.msu.edu...
>...cannot find mirror.pa.msu.edu on the network
>Trying distro.ibiblio.org...
>distro.ibiblio.org found...
>perl /usr/local/loncapa/bin/check-rpms -nk  --rpmuser www -ftp
>distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os
>**** WARNING **** You need to update at least 10 RPMS shown in
>the list below.  THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR SECURITY.
>
>ncftpls: Could not change directory: server said: 7.3: No such file or
>directory
>ncftpls failed with status 5.
>ncftpls: Could not change directory: server said: 7.3: No such file or
>directory
>ncftpls failed with status 5.
>ncftpls: Could not change directory: server said: 7.3: No such file or
>directory
>ncftpls failed with status 5.
>ncftpls: Could not change directory: server said: 7.3: No such file or
>directory
>ncftpls failed with status 5.
>ncftpls: Could not change directory: server said: 7.3: No such file or
>directory
>ncftpls failed with status 5.
>
>Please visit
>ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os
>and download the RPMS you need.
>For instructions on working with (and upgrading) RPMS, please
>visit http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/.
>To automatically download these RPMs to /tmp/loncapa_rpm_updates/,
>run the CHECKRPMS command as "./CHECKRPMS --download"
>CHECKRPMS should be located in /usr/local/loncapa/bin/.
>
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