[Yum] Re: Error 4 trying to do update

Stephen Cahill thecahillswork at comcast.net
Wed Feb 11 16:55:55 UTC 2004


Chris -

My http_proxy env var now says http:/www.wwww.com:80/   (www's instead of
real name) and I still get the same thing.

Any other suggestions ?


thanks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <thecahillswork at comcast.net>
To: <yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Error 4 trying to do update


>
>
> Hi -
>
> Had been using yum and now I'm trying to use it for the first time in a
couple months.  I sit behind a firewall so I have a http_proxy env variable
defined.  My yum version is 1.0.3-1_80.  I'm running on RedHat8.
>
> This is my yum.conf
>
> [root@ yum]# more /etc/yum.conf
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=0
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> keepalive=0
>
> [base]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
>
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$
basearch
>
> [updates]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
>
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$rele
asever
>
>
>
> When I try to do any yum commands I get the following -
>
> [root@ yum]# yum list
> Error getting file
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/update
> s/8.0/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
>
>
> My proxy allows me to get to the site, if I cut/paste the header.info full
http call I can verify the file is there.  Why do I get the 404 ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen




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