Comments on: How to enable Proxy Settings for Yum Command on RHEL/CentOS

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:16:57 +0000

The file /etc/environment is a configuration file, not a bash initialization script, so you should not include “export” in these definitions

By: albert

albert — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:03:30 +0000

http is working but https not working. Any idea ?

By: Singman

Singman — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:43:55 +0000

In reply to James. You can try to escape like that : http_proxy=http://domain\\username:password@proxyaddress:80

By: James

James — Wed, 15 May 2019 21:48:58 +0000

In the /etc/environment or root/bash.rc examples how would you account for a domain designation such as “domainname\username”

http_proxy=http://domain\username:password@proxyaddress:80 does not seem to work.

In the yum.conf example it works because I can specify the username as a variable… Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:54:40 +0000

I’m not sure the ‘#’ in the password without escaping will be accepted by your system without commenting everything after.

By: ddd

ddd — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:44:48 +0000

In reply to mosi. Hi, set this proxy=http://192.168.1.104:8181/

By: mosi

mosi — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:01:12 +0000

Hi, My CentOS Server is running on virtualbox, I run privoxy and make a http proxy on port 8118, then set the proxy in yum.conf file like this:
proxy=192.168.1.104:8118
This is my main OS ip, but I see “Connection refused …” errro
with foxyproxy on firefox I am connected with same details , please help

By: Aymaliev

Aymaliev — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:56:14 +0000

Best tutorial out there. Thank you

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:10:54 +0000

In reply to Juliette.

Hi Juliette,

First set the proxy variables on the terminal and then try executing the commands, If you wan to use ‘/etc/environment’ file then you have to first source the file using the command:

# source /etc/environment

By: Juliette

Juliette — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:24:58 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your help, but I still have a bad issue when I try to execute yum.
I configure my /etc/environment like you, try “yum update”
and now, (as always, before my configuration), I have this error :

There was an error communicating with RHN.
Red Hat Satellite or RHN Classic support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Unable to connect to the host and port specified
[a874878adm@sma6333 etc]$