up2date: Network is Unreachable

[John Summerfield]

On Friday 19 November 2004 17:31, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > strace -f -q -o poxy-trace <more options> -e trace=<stuff> up2date etc
>
> Thank you for this extra suggestion, but one of your colleagues solved
> the problem earlier: the consolehelper bug that strips out the proxy
> information when up2date is called in an 'su' context without explicitly
> specifying the full path.

Remember the strace; it would probably have shown you in about 20 seconds:-)

The tcpdump would have shown you the traffic going the wrong way (or trying 
to).



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Cheers
John