up2date and proxy?

[Douglas Stewart]

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Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
|>On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
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|>>I am trying to use up2date on fc1t3 and a proxy server, and while up2date
|>>has a place to fill in the proxy info, it seems like it isn't
working? (or
|>>redhat's site is timing out?)
|>
|>up2date on fc1t3 points to the rawhide yum files. However in this mode the
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| This I was aware of.
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|>proxying is broken. A work around is to run up2date as root, with the
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| This, I was not.
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|>http_proxy environment variable set to point at your proxy.
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| Thanks for the help, but it is still no go, I did:
| a.) su root
| b.) export http_proxy=http://username:password@hostname:port
| c.) up2date
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| then waited forever and a day for it to time out...
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| (I did see in the startup output a "declare -x" line with the http_proxy
| variable listed.
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|>	Michael Young
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| thanks,
|    noah silva
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Make sure you have quotes around your proxy variable, i.e.

export http_proxy="http://username:password@hostname:port"

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Doug Stewart
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Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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