Matthew Benjamin wrote:
Keven, your right it does work. That's strange I'm trying to set the
proxy for up2date to work, and it work on command line but when I try
all of those methods given it doesn't. Any ideas?
IIRC, up2date will get proxy information elsewhere [specifically /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date]. If, instead, you meant yum, then what you probably want to do is [as root]:
chkconfig yum on service yum start
Then, edit /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and add you http_proxy environment variable there.
Alternatively, edit /etc/crontab, and add the http_proxy environment variable there.
As to what all of this does:
chkconfig yum on
adds yum to the standard set of startup scripts when your machine is booted. For yum, this includes run levels 3 [text mode] and 5 [graphical mode], as well as levels 2, 4, and 6.
service yum start
actually starts the service [so that you don't need to reboot. Remember, this is not MS Windows... :) ].
Editing either of the two files mentioned should affect yum.
Be sure to read Alexander's excellent information on setting up alternative update servers....
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