* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-19 16:47]: > Seems this could be worked around easily by just retrying a few > times if that error is returned (until it is fixed).
Yes. > Is there a time-out when it really cannot connect to a server? Yes, that seems to work. > Installations are rare enough that just using a fixed address also seems > an option. You could even add one or two alternates in case the first is > down for some reason. We should definitely use a .debian.org alias which we can change. Linksys (or someone) got really bad PR when they hard-coded the value and used a server they shouldn't have used. > We mainly need to determine how we are going to use rdate: > - for all installations; > - only for some (sub)arches like nlsu; > - only if difference between system date/time and rdate date/time is > greater than x. I don't know if we can do the latter in the current form or the program. However, given that the program is quite small it should be trivial to adapt it to our needs, as Rick Thomas suggested. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
