wget and setting up Dell UnOfficial yum repo

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:08:34AM -0500, Flad Deborah M. (DSCYF) wrote:
> New install of RHEL5 on PE4600 using RH DVD ISO. Want to add Dell
> UnOfficial yum repo so I can get OMSA etc. Problem is when I do the wget
> command it just sits there and then times out:
>  
> [root at dscyftrout yum.repos.d]# wget -O -
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> --09:25:07--  http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi
> Resolving linux.dell.com... 143.166.82.43
> Connecting to linux.dell.com|143.166.82.43|:80... failed: Connection
> timed out.
> Retrying.
>  
> Proxy is set on server and all works okay. Have yum'd for RH updates
> without any problems. 
> Suggestions on what I'm doing wrong are welcome. I hope to re-purpose
> this server for Subversion and/or virtual hosts.

You will need to tell wget about your proxy:

export http_proxy=http://your_server:port/
wget ...

--
Michael