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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:17:08 +0800
From:      "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd6 utilities and proxy
Message-ID:  <20070719031708.GE67480@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <000701c7c9b1$1061aea0$0200a8c0@satellite>
References:  <000701c7c9b1$1061aea0$0200a8c0@satellite>

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    0n Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:01:11PM -0400, Dave wrote: 

    >I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine now behind a squid nontransparent 
    >authenticating proxy. The proxy use to be transparent and didn't require 
    >authentication, those requirements now changed, so it now utilizes a 
    >dedicated ip and basic authentication. This is fine for the machine it's on, 
    >but for machines behind it this presents a problem. They run freshclam for 
    >virus updating, csup or portsnap, fetch, and portupgrade and maybe others 
    >not sure if i remembered them all. Is there a simple way i can configure 
    >this box to deal with the new proxy?

Environment variables:

HTTP_PROXY=
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=
FTP_PROXY=

 -aW


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