William Hooper said: > > up2date yum and apt backends ignore the proxy settings > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 Thanks - I did the 'export http_proxy' and ran "up2date -u" from the command line. It's still going, so it's a bit early to say that it definitely worked, but it's a definite step forward. Jonathan