On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the 
> firewalls for outbound ftp.  I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed 
> via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum.  They 
> are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7.  It is impractical to list all 
> the possibilities since they change on a regular basis.  Also any 3rd party 
> repos we need are another ball of wax.
> 
> 
> 
> Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to avoid 
> using ftp mirrors.  I have considered taking out the ftp-proxy information so 
> that the ftp cannot get out, but I suspect it will just hang waiting for a 
> response.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to tell yum not to use ftp as the 
> download mechanism?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> Bob
> 

FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no
apparent issues.

I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp
installed for a long time.  Of course it uses dnf now, not yum.

HTH
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