[WBEL-users] Up-to-Date

[William Hooper]

Ralph Roberts / Creativity, Inc. said:
>
> To be more precise, here's the error I get when trying 'yum update':
>
> [root@beauregard root]# yum update &

You probably want to leave out the "&" so you can respond to yum's questions.

> [root@beauregard root]# Gathering header information file(s) from
> server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
>
> I can get the header file in my browser... so is it some misconfiguration
> of
> yum?

Using a proxy server?  Have you configured your http_proxy environment
variable?

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William Hooper