Setting a proxy for YUM in a crontab

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• From: "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:38:03 -0500
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Does anyone know how to set a proxy for yum, if you are setting yum to
run as a cronjob. I set an export http_proxy="http://proxy.4.me:3128"; in
the .bashrc, however this is probably only valid when I login as root. 

mB.

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