How do I diagnose this?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:24 -0400, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> >   That sounds like either (A1) an HTTP proxy server or (A2) a
> > firewall doing HTTP interception.
> > 
> 
> I have just run ntlmaps, which at least for the time being gives me
> wget. 
> The price I have to pay is an .wgetrc file.  In it is the redirection
> of wget to my proxy, which then
> gets the company one through ntlmaps.  Seems to work, but there are a
> few troubling things, like having
> passwords in the clear in the file server.cfg.  I hope to fiddle about
> with it so that requirement goes away. 
> 
> I'm lucky I am the master of my own machine :)  Linux is cool that
> way. 
> Lot's of ways to shoot myself in the foot. :0
> 
> Now how do I do yum?  edit yum.conf?

I think you can set proxy info in yum.conf, and yum definitely respects
the http_proxy environment var.

> When I install Ubuntu, or some non-Red Hat distro, is it the same
> general proceedure?

Should be.


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Jarod Wilson
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