On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:52 +0530, Nachiketa Sadhu wrote: > Hi, > > I installed yum on a RedHat 7.2 system as explained in "Using > Fedora Legacy's yum for Red Hat Linux 7.x" documentation. On > giving the command to update, I am getting the following error > message: > [root@abhikalpa root]# yum update > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 base > Error getting file > http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/os/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port > > I am behind a proxy server, and use a HTTP_PROXY setting. > > Can any one suggest any solution? > Does your proxy server have an alternate port you're specifying? I'm pretty sure this came up on the yum list about 2 or maybe 3 months ago - but I'm unsure what the resolution was - could you look back through those archives? -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
