yum - webmarshal - squid NT = Solved

[Terry Kemp]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:35 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:45 +1200, Terry Kemp wrote:
> > I have convinced IT to let the FC4 FTP server have direct access to
> > Squid (3128). The FTP server is on 10.0.0.50. How do I forward port 80
> > from my workstation (10.0.0.99) to the FTP server to then forward
> > through the squid proxy when I run Yum? 
> 
> Assuming you can ssh to the ftp server, run something like this on your
> box:
> 
> $ ssh -N -f -L 8080:SquidNT:3128 10.0.0.50
> 
> and then set your proxy to:
> 
> $ export http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen.
> 
Wow, so simple. Steffen you have nailed it! 
Thanks mate :)

Terry