Nick, YaST Online Update uses wget under the covers to do the retrievals. If you have proxies that require authorization, you'll need to create a ~/.wgetrc file with the necessary information to make that happen automagically. Something like this: # You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http and ftp. # They will override the value in the environment. http_proxy = http://proxyuser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:portnumber/
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLES on-line updates? I'm trying to use YAST on an SLES8 to get on-line updates for the first time. (Well, not the first time I've tried, but when it works, it'll be the first time I've gotten it to work!) Alas, the "Online Update" option in the curses variant of YAST is a bit too terse, just eventually saying, "Cannot connect to www.suse.de. Check your connection." My network folks assure me that the first layer of firewalls is seeing and permitting the HTTP transaction from the Linux guest to the IP address that corresponds to www.suse.de. In fact, they see about six HTTP transactions, about ever minute and a half (or slightly longer). We haven't yet sniffed the traffic, so we don't know if those are six failures with a retry 90 seconds later, or what. I'm sure I'm missing something simple here, but this YAST front end is protecting me from myself to an excessive degree. Is there a curses-based browser I should be using to verifying the basic connectivity before going further? Should I throw away the YAST training wheels and use a command from an SSH session to do these "online updates" in some verbose mode? If so, which command, please? :-) Working on writing Chapter 4 of "SLES8 for Stubborn VMers", Nick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
