On Saturday 11 June 2005 15:21, Jerry Feldman wrote:
My SuSE Watcher icon generally shows orange, and I frequently get dialog box that it is unable to connect. This is on SuSE 9.3 both at home and at work. At work, I am behind a firewall, and although my proxy settings are correct, there could be something blocking it. I checked SuSE Firewall settings, but I did not see any settings that might affect SuSE watcher. On both my home system (direct connect via Linksys router) and at work, I am able to do YOU.
You need to set the proxy settings locally for your regular user. The full online update runs as root so it uses /root/.curlrc for its proxy settings. The susewatcher process runs as the normal user, so you need a /home/<user>/.curlrc with the proxy settings. Just copy it from /root/