Hi, I have a problem with forcing rug to use an alternative proxy server. I have a machine with SUSE Linux 10.1 (X86-64) which must use a proxy server but rug cannot perform large updates in this configuration: milou:~ # rug update Resolving Dependencies... The following packages will be installed: OpenOffice_org 2.0.2-27.15 (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1) OpenOffice_org-gnome 2.0.2-27.15 (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1) OpenOffice_org-kde 2.0.2-27.15 (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1) Transaction... Transaction failed: Need media 1: Curl error for: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-2.0.2-27.15....: Error code: Timeout reached Error message: Callback aborted The proxy is defined in /etc/sysconfig/proxy as http://proxy.lio.se:8080/. I suspect the problem is because of the slow response of the proxy. (It probably scans files for viruses.) As a workaround, I defined a new proxy in rug via: rug set-prefs proxy-username alexandr.malusek@imv.liu.se rug set-prefs proxy-url http://proxy.hu.liu.se:9999/ rug set-prefs proxy-password ****** (replaced with *) and restarted rug ("rczmd stop", "rczmd start") to make sure the new settings are used. Rug remembers the new settings: milou:~ # rug get-prefs | grep proxy proxy-password | **** | Proxy Password proxy-url | http://proxy.hu.liu.se:9999/ | Proxy URL proxy-username | alexandr.malusek@imv.liu.se | Proxy Username but when I start "rug update", netstat shows that a connection to the old proxy is opened milou:~ # netstat|grep -i proxy tcp 0 0 milou.internal.cm:58705 proxy.lio.se:http-alt ESTABLISHED and rug fails as before. Therefore I think it doesn't use the new proxy (http://proxy.hu.liu.se:9999/). How can I fix the problem? Note that the old proxy doesn't require a password and so I prefer it as a system setting: milou:~ # env | grep -i proxy http_proxy=http://proxy.lio.se:8080/ ftp_proxy=http://proxy.lio.se:8080/ https_proxy=http://proxy.lio.se:8080/ -- A.M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org