On Thursday 11 September 2008 21:29:38 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2008 19:33:44 Ross Mansfield wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a rsync server on a older machine and I'm trying to emerge --sync > >> another machine to the server. When I do this my emerge --sync times > >> out. I'm pretty sure that it's because the rsync server is on an old > >> machine (but I could be wrong) and was wondering does anyone knows how > >> to increase the timeout time for emerge --sync? > > > > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS in man 5 make.conf > > > > --timeout accepts a number of seconds, or 0 for no timeout > > Would 0 (zero) be advisable? Just curious if there would be a reason > not to set that to 0 (zero).
Only reason I can think of is that if the rsync server isn't available the emerge will eventually die so you don't have to kill it. 180 seconds is 5 minutes - if not one single byte has been sent in five minutes, I reckon something is badly wrong with that connection -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
