On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:48:13PM +0000, pat_n_cats@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Yesterday's post was sloppy. Here are the actual > details cut and pasted from yum.conf and "env" > > 1) added proxies to the yum.conf file > proxy=http://nnn.mmm.n.n:3182 > proxy=ftp://nnn.mmm.kkk:21 <<<**** invalid IPaddress > yum could not connect to repos Well, the former should work, assuming that your proxy works correctly and supports http 1.1. Indeed, the latter will not work. The proxy itself should be http, even if you're doing ftp THROUGH it. Can you give us a little more information about what fails? Perhaps paste the relevant error message in. > 2) defined global variables > env | grep -i proxy > http_proxy=http://nnn.mmm.n.n:3128 Again, that should work. > Finally after days I commented the proxy= statements in > yum.conf > yum connects and works ! > Nor have I bothered to investigate which of the proxy definition(s) > is/are needed. Looking at it now, the error in the ftp proxy is > obvious I don't know how much damage this does. Interesting that > when it is removed from yum.conf, yum copes with this error > elsewhere. Perhaps we can keep this simple. 1) Pick your favorite (syntactically and logically correct) way to specify a proxy. Use it and no others. 2) run yum 3) send us the error report -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
