Jun Salen ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have no problem running yum update inside the root prompt, but when running yum using sudo as logged-in as ordinary user and command the 'sudo yum update', I am having below error: > > Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge > > This happened even I try to export my proxy server since where using them to connect internet. This is in a newly installed CentOS5 box. I also try to issue 'yum clean metadata' and 'yum clean all' but the problem still persists. Can you please give me the clue on how to solve this. > > Thanks, > > junji > aisalen.wordpress.com > Linux Registered User #253162 Is this appening even if you put the proxy=http://<host>:<port> directive on /etc/yum.conf ? Regards Lorenzo Quatrini ----------------------------- Hi Lorenzo, I answered this a while ago and I am very fast in answering your suggestion not waiting the result of my command because it froze a while. Actually it works using your directive. So it must be proxy instead of http_proxy. Thank you very much, junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com