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hi, im very new to linux. my linux box in the office has an a proxy server to access the internet. i can set this on my browsers. id like to know how i give my shell (bash) the proxy server settings so i can wget,yum install perl modules, etc. on my shell terminal without problems.
Proxy settings vary per application - 'wget' will read the 'http_proxy' environment variable but 'yum' will not, you will need to set it in /etc/yum.conf
thank u
but how can i edit etc/yum.conf ?
my yum.conf contains :
Code:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim 5,1 All
in fact i'm trying to install sysstat package. i juct know
Code:
yum install sysstat
. and it needs proxy setting to connect to the network.
also i tried to do it with a rpm packet. but it takes an our to download , and it's still downloading and nothing has happened.
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