Proxy Settings

[Ramprasad Rajendran]

Hi,

2008/8/18 Leon Vergottini <leon.vergottini at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> I ahve tried adding the the proxy settings in the yum.conf file as per
> certain forums.  I have tried the export http_proxy option.  Still none is
> working.

Does the proxy require authentication?
If  authentication is required you'll have to use something like
export http_proxy="http://username:password@host:port"
export ftp_proxy="http://username:password@host:port"

-- 
ram