In an attempt to alleviate the worn fingers of Seth, Michael & team. >From the 'man yum' page : MISC Proxy configuration If you would like to use a proxy with yum you can simply set a shell environment variable of http_proxy. Set it to the url for your proxy. Ex: "http://your_proxy:port/" This looks like just what you need. Steve. -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of stefan ducu Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:56 PM To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Yum] problems with yum I have some problems with yum and i would like you to help me, if there is a solution to my problem of course. I get the connection to internet through a proxie server(it`s my academy`s proxie) and because of this i can`t connect and so i can`t make the upgrades of my linux fedora core 1.I wondered if there could be a modification in the yum.conf file to tell yum that i use a proxie and so to connect through it.Is this possible? Thank you for your time! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25? http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum