adel.essafi wrote: > I am still trying to configure yum with the proxy. I have setup the http_proxy variable to > export http_proxy=etudiant:student@xxxxxxxxxxx:8080 > but yum still don t work > please , can someone how uses a proxy , send me his yum.conf file and this variable value (it is http_proxy ot HTTP_PROXY > thanks a lot man yum.conf Look for the "proxy" settings. Try putting the lines proxy=http://192.168.1.1:8080 proxy_username=etudiant proxy_password=student into /etc/yum.conf. (Warning: this is untried. I don't have a proxy that requires authentication to try this with). Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Never ask, "Oh, why were things so much better @westexe.demon.co.uk | in the old days?" | It's not an intelligent question. | -- Ecclesiastes 7 v. 10