Up2date

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jan 23 15:33:07 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 15:54:

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> Well I have a simple firewall setup on my box but our whole company is
> behind a firwall (proxy) where we need authentication,
> if you right click the up2date applet and select configure in the wizard
> you get the option to set up your proxy with authentication.
> 
> This I have done and it works because if you hold your mouse a little
> dialog appears saying 42 Updates available (0) ignored.
> 
> I then run up2date it starts perfectly the hand on processing headers,
> I left it for two hours this afternoon and it the process indicator
> hasn't even started.
> 
> Starnge thats all I can say.
> 
> I actually did a test and browse the mirrors to the core/1/i386 dirs and
> they respond just fine no speed probs there.

Maybe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 is
helpful. And the tip to export the proxy settings:

export http_proxy=http://proxy:port
export proxy_user=username
export proxy_passwd=password

Maybe - if those are helpful - put them into your ~/.xinitrc.

Alexander


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