Enabling YUM under Firewall?

your_shadow03 · 04-09-2009, 05:33 AM

My Yum command doesnt work due to firewall otherwise the packages are all installed on my RHEL Machine.I can browse internet through proxy.
Can I utlize proxy to run the yum command ?

acid_kewpie · 04-09-2009, 05:48 AM

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/sn...xy-server.html

your_shadow03 · 04-13-2009, 11:10 PM

Thanks for the link.
I read the doc but doubt that where should I put entry to:
/etc/yum.conf contain:

Code:

[main]
proxy=http://<ip>:3128        ----<<< Should I add here?
proxy_username=<username>               ''
proxy_password=<passwd>                 ''
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

When I run the command:

Code:

#yum install nagios
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error nonnumeric port: '3128?'>
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora

Am I doing anything wrong?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 04-13-2009, 11:57 PM

Do you connect to internet using some proxy username and password?
If you do not user authentication for proxy then put these lines in bash_profile of your user

Code:

http_proxy="http://mycache.mydomain.com:3128"
export http_proxy