This week, we:

• got 10,437 messages from 238 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,475 sessions from 1,336 different IP addresses.
• received 213,499 connections from at least 71,964 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is down from last week on the absolutenumbers, but may be up somewhat if we exclude the effects of the oneprolific connector from last

One way to put it is that in system administration, an issue that takesall of your time and energy for a week is a big thing and one that takesa month is generally a crisis. The same generally cannot be said ofprogramming except at a very small level; while you may clearly be goingup steps, the top of the path is generally not in sight.

Or in other words, you accomplish visible things much faster in systemadministration, and this gives you real, tangible signs of progress and

To follow up the first installment , it turns outthat enabling the source repositories has a side effect that I didn'tthink about at the time: it no longer looks in the default repositories.

(This is a general thing in yumdownloader : any time you specify arepository explicitly, it disables all the default ones. This makesme grumpy. While you can argue that this makes a sort of sense, itis not how yum itself behaves when you enable repositories, and yumdownloader uses the exact same command line