Re: Web urls cannot be accessed from Bash Terminal

[Jan Schampera]

Pratiksha Powar wrote:

> 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.

No, this is not a Bash problem. Not everything that happens on a 
terminal or terminal emulator is automatically the Bash shell.

J.