On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:25 +0100, mbylander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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... > python's not - but your shell most likely is. why not define the http_proxy stuff inside your yum.conf, rather than in the shell? -sv
