Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment
>>> variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is
>>> used by emerge from a cron job*?
>>>
>>> I want to make an "emerge --fetchonly" cron job which downloads through
>>> a squid server. Actually the ftp_proxy variable is important in this
>>> case because the whole traffic on port 80 is transparently redirected to
>>> the proxy.
>>>     
>>>       
>> /etc/make.conf
>> It's sourced as a bash script.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other
> downloading with cron?
>
>   


grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example
144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the
appropriate "export
145:# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to
/etc/profile if


So it appears "/etc/profile" is the appropriate file.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel


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