On Friday 19 November 2004 17:31, Jonathan Allen wrote: > > strace -f -q -o poxy-trace <more options> -e trace=<stuff> up2date etc > > Thank you for this extra suggestion, but one of your colleagues solved > the problem earlier: the consolehelper bug that strips out the proxy > information when up2date is called in an 'su' context without explicitly > specifying the full path. Remember the strace; it would probably have shown you in about 20 seconds:-) The tcpdump would have shown you the traffic going the wrong way (or trying to). -- Cheers John
