cparuss wrote: > My Fedora FCr3 box is on a private network. So it has no direct access > to the Internet. Up2date supports Proxy settings. But up2date now just > front ends for YUM or APT. No, it's not. > RedHat seems to prefer YUM. That's ok with > me but I can't figure out how to configure YUM to work through a Proxy. > I keep getting timeouts and "server not found" messages. I can't see any > YUM settings to support a Proxy. Do a man yum.conf and look for the "proxy" setting. Another option would be to set the http_proxy environment variable. > I have put the Proxy settings into > "up2date --config". No joy. That would be because up2date and yum have as much in common as Internet Explorer and Firefox. They can look at the same servers, but are completely seperate programs. -- William Hooper
