On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:24, William Hooper wrote: > > Chadley Wilson said: > > > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:45, William Hooper wrote: > > >> Chadley Wilson said: > > >> > > >> > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied > > >> > > >> By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp. > > > I know that whats so scary! > > >> > > >> > but for some reason > > >> > UP2date just hangs when I run it > > >> > > >> Hangs where? > > > > > > Just after the UP2date Channels window, you get packages flagged to be > > > skipped, with a progress dialog box > > > It says it is fetching [mirrorname/releases] > > > underneath that is says [fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info] > > > > > > and stays there forever, once I left it for a day it never budged. > > > Tried a few different mirrors from fedora.redhat.com with no change. > > > > First try running it in a console (up2date -nox) so you can copy and paste > > the exact output. > > > up2date -nox > gives the following error: > > usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>] > > /usr/sbin/up2date: error: no such option: -n try up2date --nox -u ...alex
