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Hi, sorry to bother you with probably a very stupid
question, but here goes.
We have our website (aidu.mod.uk) now on our own
webserver for the past 8 months.
I use dselect to get updates for our system,
however in all the months we have not had an update.
I downloaded from the debian site info on dselect
and noticed the bit on proxy servers, thinking that this is preventing the
update from working I entered the following command to set the environment
variables.
# export
http_proxy=http://gateway:3128/
I replaced gateway with aws which is the name of our web server.
#
dselect
To start the update process
When it got to the [U] stage it tried to connect to
the aws ip address and could not connect then timed out.
I now think I have made a mistake by setting this
variable and probable need to reset it.
Q1 what do I reset it to and how?
Q2 why are the update not working? I am sure that
in the past 8 months there have been updates
we do use squid as our proxy server
I use the default address to get the updates
from
http://http.us.debian/org/debian
stable main contrib non-free
system info from setup floppies that came with the
system initially
debian, linux 2.4.18
debian 3.0 (woody) (bf 2.4)
Sorry to sound like such amateurs, but our training
was minimal, just enough to get by.
Many thanks
Mike Simpson
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