howto specify proxy
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 11 10:59:15 UTC 2006
V V Raja Rao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I specify proxy server(with authentication) for pup/pirut in
> fc5. I tried setting the command line var http_proxy, and also setting
> the proxy here: System --> Preferences --> Network proxy. But neither
> pup nor pirut seem to be contacting the proxy( they hang when opened).
Check the proxy directives in "man yum.conf"
pup/pirut are probably not picking up the http_proxy environment setting
because the variable wasn't set in the login shell from which they're
running (are you just typing it in a command window?).
Paul.
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