Chadley Wilson said: >> > up2date -nox > gives the following error: > > usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>] > > /usr/sbin/up2date: error: no such option: -n My fault, I should have left out a space or added a dash: up2date-nox -u or up2date --nox -u See what going from memory gets you :-) > >> Also, are you behind a proxy or is it just a firewall? >> > Both >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 So you have read the bug report and tried the steps you need to go through to get up2date to use the proxy? In this situation I would personally use yum as it handles the proxy better at this moment in time. I don't recall off hand if rhn-applet has the correct code to use the proxy. -- William Hooper