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