[K12OSN] Yum updates and Proxy Settings (chapter 2)

[Dan Young]

Might want to try that export again, looks like my mail got munged
somewhere, you want to do:

export http_proxy=http://username:password@your_proxy:port/
            note the @ here --------------^

-- 
Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
503-257-1562


On 10/23/07, Ronnie Miller <rmiller at seminole.k12.ga.us> wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm still not having any luck with this issue. Since we started
> the authenticating to our LDAP server to get proxy access, I've been
> unable to get any updates or do anything with yum.
>
> I tried what Dan suggested below (thanks Dan!), but I get the following
> error:
>
> "-bash: export: `10.10.100.1:8080/': not a valid identifier"
>
> 10.10.100.1:8080 is the address of my proxy. Any ideas?
>
>
> Re: [K12OSN] Yum updates and Proxy Settings (chapter 2)
>
>     * From: "Dan Young" <dyoung mesd k12 or us>
>     * To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn
> redhat com>
>     * Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Yum updates and Proxy Settings (chapter 2)
>     * Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:47:22 -0700
>
> On 10/17/07, Ronnie Miller <rmiller seminole k12 ga us> wrote:
> > I changes the yum.conf file to show the right proxy settings and even
> > added a valid user name and password. I've saved and restarted the
> > server, but still no luck. What am I missing?
> >
> > Here's the entries I have in /etc/yum.conf
> >
> > proxy=http://10.10.100.1:8080 proxy_username=user
> > proxy_password=password
>
> >From a terminal, can you try:
> export http_proxy=http://username:password your_proxy:port/
> yum list updates
>
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> Dan Young <dyoung mesd k12 or us>
> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
> 503-257-1562
>
>
>
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> Ronnie Miller
> Technology Specialist
> Seminole County Schools
> 800 S. Woolfork Ave.
> Donalsonville, GA 39845
> 229.524.5235 Ext. 227
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