Yum problem

rahilmaknojia · 08-03-2008, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. C.

I thought I saw a similar thread earlier.

Anyway, you have now learned to diagnose permission problems, and the things that can prevent success.

Now, you need to learn about SELinux so that you can configure a policy to allow yourself the ability to copy (via command line) to the ftp directory.

Best of luck.

can you help me with yum problem, I have created repo file in /etc/yum/repos.d/server.repo, and I have done createrepo /var/ftp/pub/CentOS/

configuration of repos is below

[server installer]
name=CentOS Linux
baseurl=ftp://172.16.19.66/pub/CentOS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

what error I get is below

[root@rahil /]# yum install bind
ftp://172.16.19.66/pub/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: server installer. Please verify its path and try again

this is my error can u help me

unSpawn · 08-03-2008, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rahilmaknojia

[Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: server installer. Please verify its path and try again

Looks like the permission on the /pub/CentOS/repodata/ directory are causing you problems. Did you check the user you FTP in as has the rights to access it and the files within?

trickykid · 08-03-2008, 08:26 AM

Last time I saw this type of error myself the path was incorrect in the setup/configuration in the baseurl for yum or with the ftp daemon if that is not the configured path. If you setup your ftp to have the directory root as /var/ftp/pub then you'll want to make your ftp URL in your yum config look like this:

baseurl=ftp://172.16.19.66/CentOS/

Usually it will actually provide permission denied when it's denied such access from what I recall. Can't change directory is an actual path issue/problem.