Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 15:54: [ snip ] > Well I have a simple firewall setup on my box but our whole company is > behind a firwall (proxy) where we need authentication, > if you right click the up2date applet and select configure in the wizard > you get the option to set up your proxy with authentication. > > This I have done and it works because if you hold your mouse a little > dialog appears saying 42 Updates available (0) ignored. > > I then run up2date it starts perfectly the hand on processing headers, > I left it for two hours this afternoon and it the process indicator > hasn't even started. > > Starnge thats all I can say. > > I actually did a test and browse the mirrors to the core/1/i386 dirs and > they respond just fine no speed probs there. Maybe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 is helpful. And the tip to export the proxy settings: export http_proxy=http://proxy:port export proxy_user=username export proxy_passwd=password Maybe - if those are helpful - put them into your ~/.xinitrc. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
