Good afternoon, Kevin On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Bridges, Kevin wrote: > Is there a way to set firewall options in the yum.conf file. I am behind a > firewall and wanting to update 2 linux servers. If you have a proxy available, you can instruct yum (and other ftp/http downloaders) to use it by setting the following in the .bash_profile of the user that runs yum (generally root): export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128/"; export https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128/"; export ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128/"; export gopher_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128/"; Replace 127.0.0.1:3128 with the IP address:port of your http/ftp proxy. Exit your shell and log back in, then any future commands run from the shell will use that proxy. If you don't have a proxy, you can always take whatever steps are appropriate to download the repositories you want to a machine behind the firewall and then tell your clients to get the files from there. Both approaches save bandwidth (assuming your proxy will perform caching, and squid does). Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us." -- Raph Waldo Emerson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@xxxxxxxxx). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------
