RESOLVED: how to configure yum to get through proxy?

[bopc]

So, I've installed FC1 on my laptop which dual-boots also with XP. Now, I'm using it at work so I'm behind a proxy server. I have configured Mozilla for the proxy, and set the proxy in the Network Proxy applet (Prefs menu). I can browse the net using Moz, but yum does not seem to "see" the proxy configuration. I run yum check-update and it just sits there for a bit, then starts the failover sequence (and eventually times out looking for servers). I'm configured for DHCP. What else needs to be configured for yum to get through the proxy?

If all else fails, I can always update from home via my cable connection (525kbps), but I have 10mb connection at work so it would be nice to get updates from there too.

[bopc]

Ok, found the answer. First have to set the environment variable for yum:

http_proxy=proxy:portnum

Then, export the variable:

export http_proxy

Then run yum as usual. Works fine now.

[RossCampbell]

create the following files in /etc/profile.d, and then this will work in *any* shell for *any* user of the system

#proxy.sh
export http_proxy=http://host.com:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://host.com:port/
export no_proxy=.domain.com
export HTTP_PROXY=http://host.com:port/
export FTP_PROXY=http://host.com:port/

#proxy.csh
setenv http_proxy http://host.com:port/
setenv ftp_proxy http://host.com:port/
setenv no_proxy .domain.com
setenv HTTP_PROXY http://host.com:port/
setenv FTP_PROXY http://host.com:port/

[cybrjackle]

I just add the following to bash_profile for my main user

# vi ~/.bash_profile

export http_proxy=http://ip:port

And use sudo for the user so I don't have to type anything to get yum to run everday at work.

[vorte[x]]

Can a mod or the original creator of this thread prefix the subject line with "Resolved:" - Makes things a whole lot easier when trying to find people with unresolved issues.

[joking]

Well, that didn't work. Before I changed what was said needed to be changed or added I saw a red dot with an exclaimation point in it. When I pointed to it it said I had 124 updates waiting. Then when I clicked on the dot it would show the packages needing updating.

After making the changes. I logged out and then logged back in.

Now I have a blue dot with a check mark. It says Waiting for first checkin when I point at it and when I click on it it doesn't show anything at all.

I guess, I'll un-change what I did and reboot. And see if I can get back to the partial expected update recognition.

This is result of "yum update"

[root@home rhn]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/headers/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/headers/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[root@home rhn]#

at least now I am getting Errno 4 instead of Errno 7,

[JMR]

Anyone have a fix for this yet? I also get a 404 error after setting the http_proxy variable.

FWIW, it's not a Yum issue. I get the same error using wget.

Jack

[Jman]

Smilies disabled in certain posts, much more readable now.

Not that I don't like smilies.

[NathanH]

I had the same problem. I fixed it by editing /etc/wgetrc and edited the following:

# Many sites are behind firewalls that do not allow initiation of
# connections from the outside. On these sites you have to use the
# `passive' feature of FTP. If you are behind such a firewall, you
# can turn this on to make Wget use passive FTP by default.
passive_ftp = on

# You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http and ftp.
# They will override the value in the environment.
http_proxy = http://host:port/
ftp_proxy = http://host:port/

You need to remove the comment (#) at the beginning of the last 2 lines shown here and at the beginning of the line containing passive_ftp.

HTH,
Nathan

[leo.dearden]

Originally Posted by bopc

Ok, found the answer. First have to set the environment variable for yum:

http_proxy=proxy:portnum

Then, export the variable:

export http_proxy

Then run yum as usual. Works fine now.

Something to note:

the URL that you use for 'proxy' has to be a complete URL. Specifically, you need to use (say):

http_proxy=http://proxy.foo.com:8888

instead of

http_proxy=proxy.foo.com:8888

The latter works with wget, but causes the python urllibs to break, since they expect the protocol type to be at the start of the URL.

This one had me scratching my head for a while ^_^

HTH,

Leo.

[aussieaubs]

I thought I would just add that if you need to authenticate to your proxy and need to add a user id and password you will need to follow the following format:

http_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.foo.com:portnumber

and follow the same format with the other proxy variables (ftp_proxy etc). I know its not safe but i havent found a work around yet.... yum wont allow for password authentication...

Cheers
Ah-ha

[zabilcm]

For people behind a windows proxy which uses NTLM authentication this link will help.

http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/

The above program should be run as a proxy on your desktop and all your connections should be directed through this.

[jmellor]

I can't seem to get the proxy to work at all.

I think the problem is that I need the ability to pass a Microsoft domain as well as the Microsoft username and password to the proxy to do the authentication. Any ideas?

[Mr.GoodBoy]

I am connected to college lan(T1) my direct connection is not working so tried above.my proxies are firewalled

 http_proxy=http://144.16.192.245:8080
  export http_proxy 
[root@localhost ~]# yum install valknut
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/core/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

please help me how to solve this i am new to linux so explain in detail

previously i was trying to configure and get the gpg key there i have created files and got struck up at
like this

[root@localhost ~]# rpm --import --httpproxy http://144.16.192.245 --httpport 80 80 --ftpproxy http://144.16.192.245 --ftpport 8080  http://dag.wieers.com/packag es/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
error: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt: import read failed(-1 ).
Segmentation fault

so i changed the gpgcheck to 0 as suggested by some one and got the above error in yum
please tell me how and what to configure i am new to linux and got fc4
frusttrated of these installations and dependencies

[coolmohitz]

Just copy paste this in your .bashrc and invoke it by the command proxy
This is a secure authentication method:

function proxy(){
echo -n "username:"
read -e username
echo -n "password:"
read -es password
export http_proxy="http://$username:$password@proxy: port/"
export ftp_proxy="http://$username:$password@proxy: port/"
}