Create a new system variable
Matthew Benjamin
msbenjamin at fedex.com
Thu Apr 8 21:09:40 UTC 2004
Thanks, I'll use the yum.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keven Ring [mailto:keven at mitre.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:30 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Create a new system variable
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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