dell core2duo schrieb: > Whenever I am trying to do ssh/telnet/emerge --sync in root mode it gives > me error saying "Connection Refused: Forbidden". while same works fine in > user mode. > Below are some examples . [...] > flukebox flukebox # wget yahoo.com > --2008-02-12 19:50:15-- http://yahoo.com/ Compare this ^^^^^^^^^ > Resolving relproxy.iitk.ac.in... 172.31.1.233 > Connecting to relproxy.iitk.ac.in|172.31.1.233|:3128... Connection Refused: and that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Forbidden > failed: Connection refused.
With your root account, you're obviously using a proxy that refuses the request. Since similar things happen when you use telnet/ssh you're maybe using socksified versions of those commands. Check your proxy and socks settings. Regards mks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
