On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:07:20AM +0200, Darryn Levitt wrote: > Could someone please give me the definitive answer on how to run yum > from behind an authenticating proxy? > I have tried various different setups, but could not get any to work. > A posting of a working yum.conf, etc. would be great. Depends on your yum version. For newer versisons (>= 2.2.0), use the "proxy" option in the [main] section. I should have the following format: proxy=http://user:pass@xxxxxxxx:port For 2.0.X, set the env variable as suggested previously. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G