On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:41 +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 22:38, Matthew Benjamin wrote: > > 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. > > Add your proxy definitions to the /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron Better still, add it to /etc/yum.conf (see "man yum.conf" if you're using the yum 2.2 package from updates-released). You will no longer then need to set it in the environment. Paul. -- I tried it didn't work, maybe my syntax is wrong I put in proxy="http://my.proxy.com:3128"; Is that correct?
