Hi, At the moment I am trying to get [ rhn-clone-errata.py ] to work but I can't seem to do so. My situation is that on server mgt50 I have spacewalk 1.4 running. It is a closed environment with a http proxy connected to the Internet. My hosts are running RHEL 5.4 x86_64 From the mgt50 I am trying to get errata information into Spacewalk using : /sbin/rhn-clone-errata.py -s localhost -l admin -p <pw admin> -c rhel-x86_64-server-5 --publish ( using the -s I also tried mgt50 instead of localhost ). iptables / selinux are stopped In the script I set the following : <div style="margin-left:40px">svrRHN = '<a href="http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com" target="_blank">xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com</a>' userRHN = 'RHN Username' passRHN = '<RHN Password' </div> When running my script, On the prompt I set : <div style="margin-left:40px"> export https_proxy="http://<proxy user>:<proxy <a href="http://password@10.132.174.140:8080" target="_blank">password@10.132.174.140:8080</a>" export http_proxy="http://<proxy user>:<proxy <a href="http://password@10.132.174.140:8080" target="_blank">password@10.132.174.140:8080</a>" </div> Does not matter what I try the error message keep on saying : <div style="margin-left:40px"> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') </div> Running yum check_update runs perfectly. Can anyone help me solving my issue(s) Maybe how I should look at the output ... I don't know whether it is the connection to RHN or the connection to my spacewalk server which is wrong. Hope someone can help me. Michel