On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote: > hi all, > > since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get > apt-get to work. > > i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, > and both of these are allowed through:
I don't recognise the firewall rule syntax, so I don't know if there's anything wrong with it. apt-get should only require http and ftp as you say, so I would try using wget and ftp type rules on the commandline to check whether they work. Cheers, Jan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
