From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 12: 8:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3D615606 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA15035; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:02:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00751; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:32:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904191832.TAA00751@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Holloway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Ports behing Proxy In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:28:12 PDT." <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:32:00 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just recently added a FreeBSD box to an existing network. The IP is > 172.16.0.xxx and there is one NT machine running Wingate. For > simplicity sake we're using Socks. > > Is there a way to let FreeBSD 3.x know that it's behind a Socks Proxy so > when I download a port and run the "make all isntall" it know what to > do? Unlike Netscape, I can't find any way to tell FreeBSD to use > SOCKS.... I do this with the following script under -current (rfetch): #! /bin/sh exec runsocks ftp -pV "$@" I then set ``rfetch'' in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk: FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/rfetch > Regards, > Mark -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message