Error message from yum update on RedHat 7.2 syatem

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:52 +0530, Nachiketa Sadhu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed yum on a RedHat 7.2 system as explained in "Using 
> Fedora Legacy's yum for Red Hat Linux 7.x" documentation. On 
> giving the command to update, I am getting the following error 
> message:
> [root at abhikalpa root]# yum update
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 base
> Error getting file 
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/os/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port
> 
> I am behind a proxy server, and use a HTTP_PROXY setting.
> 
> Can any one suggest any solution?
> 

Does your proxy server have an alternate port you're specifying?

I'm pretty sure this came up on the yum list about 2 or maybe 3 months
ago - but I'm unsure what the resolution was - could you look back
through those archives?

-sv