Setting a proxy for YUM in a crontab

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:41 +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 22:38, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to set a proxy for yum, if you are setting yum to
> > run as a cronjob. I set an export http_proxy="http://proxy.4.me:3128" in
> > the .bashrc, however this is probably only valid when I login as root.
> >
> > mB.
> 
> Add your proxy definitions to the /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

Better still, add it to /etc/yum.conf (see "man yum.conf" if you're
using the yum 2.2 package from updates-released). You will no longer
then need to set it in the environment.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>