[K12OSN] Re: Yum update and proxy setting

[Dan Young]

Can you comment out the proxy* lines in /etc/yum.conf?

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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:
> Dan, I tried this, but here's the error I'm getting in the terminal window:
>
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-5.0EL-i386 error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?'>
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: k12ltsp
> [root at e214 ~]#
>
> Any ideas?
>
> > I replied on the K12OSN list so hopefully others might benefit too.
> > Looks like you're just missing the "@" between the proxy password and
> > the proxy hostname. Don't know where that's getting munged, but it
> > looks OK in the source of the original message I sent. Hope this
> > helps.
> >
> > --
> > 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:
> >> Good morning, Dan. Recently, I posted this problem on the K12LTSP
> >> archives
> >> and you gave me soemthing to try. To refesh your memory about my
> >> problem:
> >>
> >> We recently switched to proxying internet access and have tied it to our
> >> Netware NDS tree via LDAP. It works very well, except for yum updates.
> >> Before tying it to LDAP to track user logins, we were just using
> >> straight
> >> proxy settings of 10.10.100.1:8080 as our proxy server. I found how to
> >> set
> >> yum.conf to reflect our proxy (thanks to the K12LTSP archive) and yum
> >> worked until we activated the LDAP authentication.
> >>
> >> You suggested that I try:
> >>
> >> >From a terminal, can you try:
> >> export http_proxy=http://username:password your_proxy:port/
> >> yum list updates
> >>
> >> So, I go to terminal and enter:
> >>
> >> >From a terminal, can you try:
> >> export http_proxy=http://username:password 10.10.100.1:8080/
> >>
> >> And get the following error:
> >> "-bash: export: `10.10.100.1:8080/': not a valid identifier"
> >>
> >> So, now I can't install updates or make changes to our installed
> >> software.
> >> There may be a command line method for doing all this, but I'm not that
> >> skilled on Linux/Fedora yet. Being an overworked, underpaid tech
> >> specialist in a small school system, I really haven't had the time to
> >> devote to learning the ins and outs of Linux, so I depend on gui's to do
> >> my jobs.
> >>
> >> Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thanks for what you've
> >> done!
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ronnie Miller
> >> Technology Specialist
> >> Seminole County Schools
> >> 800 S. Woolfork Ave.
> >> Donalsonville, GA 39845
> >> 229.524.5235 Ext. 227
> >>
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