[WBEL-users] yum update through authentication proxy

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:37:50 -0500 (EST)


Jesús García González said:

>   I can’t get through an authentication Proxy. I set
> http_proxy="http://userid:passwd@my-proxy:port/
> " (proper values where they ought
> to be :-))but it didn’t do any good.  (I even get the same “FORBIDDEN”
> error
> if I write whatever IP address I make up) Is there something else I’m
> missing here?

IIRC the default repos are FTP, so try setting ftp_proxy in addition to
http_proxy.

If that doesn't work, please copy and past the output in a message so we
can see where it goes wrong.

-- 
William Hooper