On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 21:24, Chadley Wilson wrote: > 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]# > > > > > > >> 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 Yes I did read the reports I dont understand half of the jargen there but managed to find a sample config file that should work I have configured my file the same. I did discovered that the http_proxy port was missing and fixed it, I have tried again and it still does the same. That is why I reverted to giving up on it and trying everything the manual way. But I am back now so lets see. Here is a copy of my Config file. proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy proxyPassword=xxxxx updateUp2date[comment]=Allow up2date to update itself when possible updateUp2date=1 keepAfterInstall[comment]=Keep packages on disk after installation keepAfterInstall=0 proxyUser[comment]=The username for an authenticated proxy proxyUser=chadley removeSkipList[comment]=A list of package names, optionally including wildcards that up2date will not remove removeSkipList=kernel*; useGPG[comment]=Use GPG to verify package integrity useGPG=1 gpgKeyRing[comment]=The location of the gpg keyring to use for package checking gpgKeyRing=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg debug[comment]=Whether or not debugging is enabled debug=0 httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. squid.redhat.com:3128 httpProxy=http://000.000.000.000:80 headerCacheSize[comment]=The maximum number of rpm headers to cache in ram headerCacheSize=40 forceInstall[comment]=Force package installation, ignoring package, file and config file skip list forceInstall=0 noReboot[comment]=Disable the reboot actions noReboot=0 Chad
