On 3/21/06, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > define the proxy in your yum.conf Thanks, that did the trick neatly. In the meantime, I have resolved the problem. Possibly this may be of interest, because it is likely that others will encounter the same problems in the near future: FC5 contains a version of "sudo", which purges the users environment, leaving only certain environment variables, like LC_*. All others are being removed, in particular the *_proxy variables. Jochen -- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)
