On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to list all the possibilities since they change on a regular basis. Also any 3rd party repos we need are another ball of wax.
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> Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to avoid using ftp mirrors. I have considered taking out the ftp-proxy information so that the ftp cannot get out, but I suspect it will just hang waiting for a response.
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> Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to tell yum not to use ftp as the download mechanism?
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> Thank you in advance.
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FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no
apparent issues.
I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp
installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum.
HTH
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