yum through proxy always fails

jfernandez1977 · 07-04-2013, 01:58 PM

Hi,

I'm installing software on a Redhat linux in a lab. All internet traffic are through a proxy called proxy.labs

so I put
proxy=http://proxy.labs:80
in the /etc/yum.conf

but when I tried to install anything, I got the following error. What could be the reason? thanks.

yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Connection refused
Setting up Install Process
No package gcc-c++ available.
No package autoconf available.
No package automake available.
Nothing to do

John VV · 07-04-2013, 02:13 PM

Quote:

There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.

A question ?
Have you contacted RedHat tech support ?
You ( lab) are paying them a lot of cash for the required support contracts for the servers / satellite program

It looks like you missed some of the needed settings in the yum.conf

Code:

# The proxy server - proxy server:port number 
proxy=http://mycache.mydomain.com:3128 
# The account details for yum connections 
proxy_username=yum-user 
proxy_password=qwerty

also it is recomended to install the software group " Development Tools" over individually installing "gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake"

Code:

su -
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"