Try checking the DNS resolution on the system. I had been keeping my primary system up-to-date with a nightly rsync to the gentoo servers; however, the server stopped when a DHCP Client update knocked out my /etc/resolve.conf; I had to fix it by recreating my /etc/resolve.conf as /etc/resolve.conf.head. (I probably did something stupid somewhere with env-update; I don't know how long it went so I can't say if it was my fault, emerge's fault, or env-update's fault.)
Any how, once I got the DNS working again, it worked fine. Otherwise it just reported a timeout. HTH, Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Ross Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:33:44 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] problem with a slow rsync server 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? Thanks, Ross
