Thanks guys, I still had entries in /etc/yum.repos.d/* that I'd disabled (enabled=0). Yum however, seems to want to check for the repository anyway. I've removed these files completely and the problem went away. Andrew On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:57 +1000, Andrew Diamond wrote: > Why does yum contact www.redhat.com each time it is run? I maintain a > local yum repository so there is no requirement to access any external > hosts. I also require all web traffic to go via a non-transparent proxy > and without setting the http_proxy environment variable, yum just sits > there and does nothing. > > How do I turn this off and if anyone can explain why it would need to > talk to www.redhat.com that would also be great. > > Thanks, > Andrew >
