Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:20:06 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO use the Ports behind a firewall Message-ID: <20000227132006.C99703@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <200002261236.NAA47254@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <00022814545200.00536@freebsd.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:52:21PM +1100, Danny wrote: > Hello, > > -I did what you instructed below > > Modify /root/.profile by adding the following lines :- > > HTTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194:3128 > FTP_PROXY = 192.168.1.194 Oh, seems you also want to read the sh manpage about environment variables... :) (hint: no spaces around the = and you need to `export' them too.) And don't put it in root's profile but in yours (unless you actually login as root when you fetch distfiles instead of using su, but in that case you need to modify root's .cshrc, and csh syntax for setting the environment is different too. and doing everything as root is not a good idea anyway...) HTH, -- Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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