yum: I'm missing something basic

[Dale Sykora]

Douglas Frank wrote:

> First try with yum: 'yum list' gives complaint that the [base] url 
> returns "connection refused".  That's funny, if I paste the generated 
> url into firefox I can get there every time.  What gives?
> 
Douglas,
	Are you behind a firewall?  If so you need to set the http_proxy 
environment variable and export it.  Most browsers have their own proxy 
settings.

I set it in /etc/profile

add these lines

http_proxy="http://proxy_server.your_company.com:8080/"
export http_proxy

Thanks,

Dale