up2date from behind corporate firewall

[M A Young]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 pjain001 at covad.net wrote:

> I just installed FC3 on my work machine and up2date can't seem to get
> through the corporate firewall.  The only outgoing traffic that's allowed
> is on port 80.  up2date with RHN used to work without a problem.  Does
> anyone know what port is being used with FC3 to get a list of the updates
> and then grab the RPMs?
>
> My proxy settings are correctly set.

Currently the proxy settings are ignored for non-rhn up2dates.  If you are
logged in as root, a work around is to set the http_proxy environment
variable to point at your proxy.

	Michael Young