Marc Siegel said: > Hi thanks for the replies Alexander and William. > As I already wrote back to William Hooper on Usenet: I thought that questions looked familiar :-) Must not have got back to Usenet yet. > > 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). How did you switch do root? Specifically, try calling up2date directly to make sure: su - (or login as root at the console) export http_proxy=http://llproxy.llan.mit.edu:8080 (note lower case) /usr/sbin/up2date -u > 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? Are you showing all the output? It doesn't look like it is even getting to the point of downloading anything. -- William Hooper
