Amul Shah on 12 Mar 2015 16:54:04 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Testing yum proxy settings


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On March 10, 2015 9:28:08 PM EDT, Robert <mlists@zoominternet.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:41:44 -0400
>Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>> As part of corporate security, we rotate passwords every 90 days. Our
>> Linux servers are configured to user the Corp proxy and we have an
>> expect script that goes out and twiddles all the right bits.
>>
>> On RedHat, or similar, we execute yum check-update to verify the new
>> proxy settings. I mistakenly thought that an inaccessible proxy would
>> generate an error. It does not. I've read through the man page and
>> related man pages, but have found no suitable command to test yum's
>> proxy settings.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Have your tried strace?

No. Strace doesn't strike me as something that I can script with.

Amul
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