[Yum] Error 4 trying to do update

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 thecahillswork at comcast.net wrote:

> 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 ?

It might not be your problem, but make sure your proxy is set exactly as:

http_proxy="http://foo.bar.com:666/"

I saw something similar on a box where http_proxy was set incorrectly as 
"foo.bar.com:666" or "http://foo.bar.com:666" or something like that....

later,
chris