Re: Web urls cannot be accessed from Bash Terminal

[Pete Graner]

On 9/17/07, Pratiksha Powar <pratiksha.powar@onmobile.com> wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  -D_GNU_SOURCE 
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector 
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic 
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
> uname output: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 
> 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
> Yum Version : 3.0.5
>
> Description:
>           Yum not able to access url through bash
>
> Repeat-By:
>           Following is the sequence of commands and the results:
>
>      1. [root@localhost /]# yum install gcc
>      2. Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>      3. Setting up Install Process
>      4. Setting up repositories
>      5. Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>         http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was
>      6. [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
>      7. Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
>
> I don't know whether it is a problem with Bash or yum.
> I suppose it is bash only. Also, if I need to upgrade to the
> latest version of Bash where would I get a reliable binary
> for the above stated architecture.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pratiksha
>
>
>
>

This is a not even a yum problem, its a network/upstream server
problem. If you cut an paste the URL into your browser you will get
the information.

~p
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Pete Graner <pgraner@redhat.com>
Manager - Base Operating Systems
Red Hat Inc.