On 25 December 2010 17:27, Rachid Ayad <a...@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> My yum hangs all the time and I > followed some advises I found online but still does not work. all internet > transactions in our university goes through a proxy and I added it in > /etc/yum.conf and it seems it accepted it and also I entered a password. The > proxy works from the browser but yum stil hanging. Section #11, Using Yum with a Proxy Server, of the CentOS wiki page [1] is the technique used by the CentOS Community. It should prove satisfactory for you. Alan. [1] http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-ea1fc5d78f578114f4843e57627ebae9cc4fcb5a