On 25 December 2010 17:27, Rachid Ayad <[log in to unmask]> 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