Set proxy in Linux

Linux setting proxy Linux system setting yum, wget, rpm command using Proxy: 1. using yum with a proxyserver --------------------------------------- To enable yum operations to use aproxy server you shocould first add the following parameter to/etc/yum. conf proxy = http: // yourproxy: 8080/where yourproxy is the name of the proxy server you want to access and 8080 isthe proxy port. if the server requires authentication you can specify the logi Ncredentials like: proxy = http: // username: password @ yourproxy: 8080/------------------------------------------- 2. the rpm package manager makesuse of the proxy environment variable. this can be set system wide in/etc/profile or user specific in ~ /. Bash_profile: export http_proxy = http: // yourproxy: 8080/export ftp_proxy = http: // yourproxy: 8080/----------------------------------------- 3. to use wget throug a proxy serveradd the following lines to/etc/wgetrc http_proxy = http: // yourproxy: 8080/ftp_proxy = http: // yourproxy: 8080/