On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:13:33PM -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote: > > Keven, your right it does work. That's strange I'm trying to set the > proxy for up2date to work, and it work on command line but when I try > all of those methods given it doesn't. Any ideas? Aha... up2date It has it's own control hooks. ... see the config file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy enableProxy=1 httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. squid.redhat.com:3128 httpProxy=192.168.0.1 Also see command line options that you can place in the cron command up2date --proxy localpxy.somebox.commercial -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.