[Yum] Yum Problem

[Jim Perrin]

On 1/9/06, John Fox <fedora at australmailco.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the duplicate message as I left out info in the error
> message.
> Having Problem with yum update command. Yum ver 2.0.5 operating
> system RH9. When issuing yum update command it returns an error
> "[Errno 7] HTTP Error (Cannot send request)". I have APF
> firewall
> which I stopped and tried again with result the same error
> message. I cannot use "wget" as it gives a similiar message. All
> help would be appreciated.

If wget fails also, it's not really a yum problem so much as a
connection problem. In addition to your firewall, are you using a
proxy of any sort, or is there some other reason that port 80 might be
blocked?

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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center