"Mike Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Please set your mailer to post in plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. And don't include the word "urgent" in your subject line; everyone's question is "urgent" in some form or another.) > 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. What APT sources are you using? Do you have the security.debian.org line in it? (See http://www.debian.org/security/.) Otherwise, you'll only get updates when a new point release of Debian stable is released, which is fairly infrequent. > 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. Is your site actually using a proxy server? If dselect was working before (you could update and see a list of packages without getting errors) then you're probably not, and you don't need to set this. If you are, you should be able to get that information from your network administrator. > 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? 'unset http_proxy' should do it, as would logging out and logging in again. > I use the default address to get the updates from > http://http.us.debian/org/debian stable main contrib non-free Are you actually in the US? Your email address suggests not; you might get better performance by using a nearer mirror, like deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian stable main -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]