Thanks all, I am going to look into sudo and rsync and see if any of these fit the bill. Once I get something working I will post again to let others know.
Thanks, Tony. -----Original Message----- From: Frankie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root To be honest, I don't know with any certainty, but I doubt it.... Other ideas that occured to me was to setup a proxy on that internal machine and use iptables to transparently forward all port 21 stuff to the proxy, and have the proxy user registed with the winblows proxy... lol... I still think it might be easier to find out what user wget is running as.. and register that with the firewall. Actually, if he tries running Mandrakeupdate, and runs top in a terminal, he may well be able to find out what user wget is using to access the ftp servers.. Still, there are more problems with that as well. I personally think he should use rsync to mirror the updates dir on one of the FTP server then add that rsync'd dir as an update source for urpmi... The whole lot could run from cron. regards Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:20, Frankie wrote: > I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Frankie how about softlinking a directory to a remote site and using that? Wouldn't that be feasible? I've never tried so I don't know. -- Good luck, HarM -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/>
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