thanks very much for helping... but that also doesnt work... it gets an html page from my router telling it its not connected to the internet so the output becomes something like: Setting up repositories livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <html> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <head> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <title>SpeedTouch</title> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <script type="text/javascript">var g_navitem = -1;</script> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <script type='text/javascript' src='/cgi/b/ic/util.js'></script> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles.css"> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - </head> ...<to the end of the htmp page> thanks for your help anyway On 10/28/05, Michael Stenner <mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:53:54PM +0300, SiO d34d.10n wrote: > > hi, im on FC4 and i have to use a proxy server (lets say, proxy.foo.bar > :8080) > > for all my connections... i am having trouble at configuring yum to use > it, > > i tried to add "proxy=proxy.foo.bar:8080" in /etc/yum.conf but it didnt > > work. anyone can help me here? > > Try "proxy=http://proxy.foo.bar:8080". > > -Michael > > > -- > Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 > University of Arizona ECE 524G > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20051028/31dc51c9/attachment.htm