Chadley Wilson said: > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 20:46, William Hooper wrote: >> 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 :-) >> > > OK that works, heres the new error, > > [root@chadlin root]# up2date-nox -u > > Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1... > > Fetching > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info... > There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure > in name resolution')> > [root@chadlin root]# This looks like comment #24 on the bug report. Could you give us the exact syntax (changing the username/password of course) that you are trying to use to export the http_proxy variable? Not also that once you get past the proxy you are going to want to configure up2date to use a mirror, so you might as well do that now. -- William Hooper