<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vivek J. Patankar</b> <<a href="mailto:list307@gmail.com">list307@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Art Fore wrote:<br>> I am new to Fedora and am running FC^I. I need to run the software updater,<br>> which I guess it yum, but it does not connect. I am on a proxy and have<br>> configured Firefox for proxy and it works find. How do I configure software
<br>> updater to work with a proxy server? (I downloaded and installed<br>> connect-proxy rpm, but could find no info on its operation.)<br><br>Edit /etc/yum.conf and add "proxy=<a href="http://proxyaddr:port/">
http://proxyaddr:port/</a>" (without the<br>quotes) in the [main] section.<br>If your proxy requires authentication, then you're in for a lot of<br>trouble as I have never managed to get yum working with an authenticated
<br>proxy.<br>man yum.conf for more details.<br><br>--<br>Regards<br>Vivek J. Patankar<br><br>Registered Linux User #374218<br>Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)<br>Linux 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 x86_64</blockquote><div><br> </div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That works great. Thanks.</blockquote><div><br><br> </div><br></div><br>