Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fedora 8, proxy settings, some crashes in KDE and Super Grub Disk!

Nishit Dave wrote:

1. Environmental proxy settings: my internet connection goes through an

open proxy that does not require any UID or password. I have manually configured firefox and konqueror's proxy settings and I can connect to the internet through them. However, yum / pup / pirut do not work. I have specified the proxy settings in the root bash profile, my (user) bash profile, and in the global profile under /etc/profile, but I cannot still connect. Any pointers?

Proxy for yum is usually specified in /etc/yum.conf as shown below.

proxy=http://<IP or Hostname>:<port>

parameters on how to get it working with an authenticated proxy can be found in the manual page for yum.conf.