up2date crash problem

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 30 20:52:13 UTC 2004


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





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