Gary [mailto:gmerin@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: >Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:18 PM >To: 'Yellowdog Updater, Modified' >Subject: RE: [Yum] Yum and proxy > > >I know this will probably sound very na?ve, but I have three Dell 1850s >recently installed with Fedora FC4 64bit; <snip> with the >environment variable set as follows: > >http_proxy="http://this.proxy.com:8000/" > >Case of the variable name seems to be important. Well, I have $http_proxy and $HTTP_PROXY defined (as well as $ftp_proxy and $FTP_PROXY), and still no luck... I'm wondering if Python is getting confused by the backlash in my "username", which according to M$ conventions is DOMAIN\USERNAME... Mark