up2date crash problem

[Marc Siegel]

Hi thanks for the replies Alexander and William.
As I already wrote back to William Hooper on Usenet:

 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272
 >
 > should fit. Which version of up2date do you have running?
 > up2date-4.1.21-3 is the latest update version.
 >
 > Alexander

This is good advice, but unfortunately this seem to be a different bug. 
I have up2date-4.1.21-3, and I tried running up2date directly as root 
with the HTTP_PROXY variable set in order to avoid the bug described in 
that report (suid python programs stripping environment variables for 
security, thus losing HTTP_PROXY).

Unfortunately I get the same error as before, which is urllib error -2, 
'Name or Service not known', as opposed to 110, which that bug report shows.

Any other ideas, anyone?

Thanks
Marc Siegel
mlsiegel at ll.mit.edu