[gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Daniel Iliev]

Hi,

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Mike Williams]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Daniel Iliev]

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?

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

[Daniel Iliev]

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.

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

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile. 
IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined 
variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall 
now).
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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

[Uwe Thiem]

On 25 December 2006 20:31, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile.
> IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined
> variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall
> now).

So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that script!

Uwe

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

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that
> script!

Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

[Uwe Thiem]

On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that
> > script!
>
> Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-)

Only, I sent mine 4 hours before you. At times, it takes quite a while until 
my message show up. ;-)

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

[Daniel Iliev]

Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote:
>>     
>>> So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that
>>> script!
>>>       
>> Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-)
>>     
>
> Only, I sent mine 4 hours before you. At times, it takes quite a while until 
> my message show up. ;-)
>
> Uwe
>
>   

Yep. Just as I suspected. This explains why your and Etaoin's replies
mostly cover each other. From my point of view your messages came after
Etaoin's. It happens.  ;-)

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

[Daniel Iliev]

Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure that a cron job can see the variables set by /etc/profile. 
> IIRC, even PATH is unavailable to cron jobs. Only a few predefined 
> variables are set ($HOME, $SHELL and a few others which I don't recall 
> now).
>   


It sounds logical and I think the vars available to cron are in
/etc/crontab. There remains the other solution - to set the vars from
the same script which runs wget. ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 25 December 2006 14:23, Daniel Iliev wrote:

> That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other
> downloading with cron?

Can't you just use a bash script that sets the variables and then runs 
the download (wget)? Something like

$ cat download.sh

#!/bin/bash

export ftp_proxy=ftp.proxy.tld
export http_proxy=http.proxy.tld

wget <url>

----

and then schedule download.sh to be run by cron?
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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Uwe Thiem]

On 25 December 2006 15:23, 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?

~/.bashrc


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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Monday 25 December 2006 07:23, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote 
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> That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other
> downloading with cron?

man 5 crontab

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]

[Daniel Iliev]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
>   


Thanks, guys! The problem is solved! ;-)

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