Hi thanks for the replies Alexander and William. As I already wrote back to William Hooper on Usenet:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 > > should fit. Which version of up2date do you have running? > up2date-4.1.21-3 is the latest update version. > > Alexander
This is good advice, but unfortunately this seem to be a different bug. I have up2date-4.1.21-3, and I tried running up2date directly as root with the HTTP_PROXY variable set in order to avoid the bug described in that report (suid python programs stripping environment variables for security, thus losing HTTP_PROXY).
Unfortunately I get the same error as before, which is urllib error -2, 'Name or Service not known', as opposed to 110, which that bug report shows.
Any other ideas, anyone?
Thanks Marc Siegel mlsiegel@xxxxxxxxxx
