Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:56 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd behind a proxy Message-ID: <20080523010356.7a875a5a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <004301c8bc18$3f419a00$c500000a@SupportDela> References: <004301c8bc18$3f419a00$c500000a@SupportDela>
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 15:29:16 +0100 "Dela Benson Bani" <dbani@watradehub.com> wrote: > Hi > > i have my FreeBSD behind a squid proxy server and i'm unable to > connect to the internet. > > Can you help me with where i set the env (FTP_PASSIVE_MODE)variable to > enable me connect either through the proxy or something that will > work. FTP_PASSIVE_MODE wont help, you need to set http_proxy, e.g.: (for csh, tcsh) setenv http_proxy http://squid.example.com:3128 or (for sh, bash, ksh, zsh etc) export http_proxy=http://squid.example.com:3128 I would suggest you put them in /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile respectively so they apply to everything. Any GUI applications, like Firefox, will probably need to be set individually. You might conceivably need to set ftp_proxy and the capitalised versions: HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY, but I think everything should fall-back to http_proxy.
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