Re: [sheflug] Keeping server up to date without internet connection

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:51 +0100, Seb James wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:01 +0100, Stephen.Tozer-Loft [at] sth.nhs.uk wrote:
> > I've installed Centos 4.3 on a fairly mission-critical server.
> > 
> > There isn't a way out of the NHSnet firewall on to the internet for this
> > machine, so there's no direct way of using up2date or anything to keep
> > abreast of things.
> 
> Do you have an http proxy server that can be used? If so, then you can
> configure up2date/yum to use that proxy. Set the environment variable 
> 
> export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.lan:8080";
> 
> before carrying out your up2date/yum commands.

Actually, it's yum that uses http_proxy. To set the proxy for up2date,
run up2date-config.

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