On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:43:45PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > There is this question about proxies during installation. What are
> > these
> > > > proxies, where are they defined and how can I define them after
> > > > installtion?
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > during the installation, if you choose to configure your proxies, 2
> > files
> > > will be created: /etc/profile.d/proxy.{sh,csh} in order to set the
> > > ftp_proxy and http_proxy variables.
> > >
> > > These variables will be useful for the applications that are
> designed
> > to
> > > use them. (what a profound sentence ;)
> >
> > Is rpmdrake among them?
> >
> > [root@cooker sbin]# ftp_proxy=http://xxx:81/ http_proxy=http://xxx:81/
> > rpmdrake
> > 374 installed packages found!
> > * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for p����
> > * Closing live connection (#0)
> > [root@cooker sbin]# ftp_proxy=xxx:81 http_proxy=xxx:81 rpmdrake
> > 374 installed packages found!
> > * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for �t����
> > * Closing live connection (#0)
> >
> > and mirror list is not updated
> >
>
> And after I have defined proxies explicitly in rpmdrake:
>
> [root@cooker root]# rpmdrake
> 374 installed packages found!
> * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for Z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * Closing live connection (#0)
>
When does these messages show up?
It is when you try installing a package, updating a source, using the
Mandrake Update wizard?
thanks,
DindinX
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